Bellarmino: sacred houses may be built to Saints as basilicas (relic-chests), not as temples of sacrifice—else idolatry
Bellarmino allows sacred houses to Saints—as basilicas, not sacrifice-temples.
Temple-ratio to Saints would be idolatry; basilica-ratio is a great relic-chest and memorial.
Mass of Peter ≠ Basilica of Peter: Mass to God, basilica the Saint’s monument.
Latin
XVI. At Bellarminus ipse est in alia sententia. Nam capite jam allegato haec est ejus quarta propositio. Sacrae domus non solum Deo sed etiam Sanctis recte aedificantur. Ac ut mentem suam exponat & illustret, observat aedem sacram sub duplici ratione considerari posse: primo ut templum est, secundo ut est Basilica. Aedes sacra habet rationem templi, quatenus ad offerenda sacrificia erigitur. Basilica vero dicitur quatenus erigitur ad ornatum sepulchri alicujus Sancti, & commoditatem visitantium ejusdem reliquias. Jam vero fatetur Idololatriam fore, si quis domos sacras Sanctis erigeret sub ratione templi, sed negat esse Idololatriam si quis erigat illis Basilicas. Sicut etiam, inquit, non est Idololatria donare Sanctis thecas aureas, vel argenteas, quibus includantur reliquiae eorum. Nihil enim aliud sunt basilicae, quam magnae quaedam thecae, quibus minores thecae, & ipsa sepulchra clauduntur. Unde colligit, aliter dici Missam S. Petri, aliter Basilicam S. Petri, quoniam Missa offertur Deo, Basilica vero Sancti est monumentum, Basilica, vel memoria.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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