Popular Manual of Mary’s sodality: vows honor her as witness and terminate the promise in her
Bellarmino’s terminating Saint-vows are not niche—they sit in popular sodality manuals.
Mary’s Manual: vow to God with Mary as witness and intercessor—and terminate the promise in her.
Latin
XXXIII. Caeterum doctrina illa Bellarmini jam exposita, de votis quae Sanctis nuncupantur, atque ad ipsos terminantur, in Ecclesia Romana communis & popularis est, utpote tradita libris, qui sunt in communi usu plebis Romanae. Sic enim habet liber qui dicitur Manuale sodalitatis Beatae Mariae, Ad haec votis illi nuncupatis honorem tribuimus, non tantum quatenus Deo Vovemus, ex parentis ejus Mariae amore & reverentia, illam quasi testem obligationis, qua nos Deo obstringimus appellantes, ac illius gloriosa ac potenti intercessione statuentes & Sperantes ratam promissionem reddi votumque dependere, sed etiam ipsum votum & promissionem in eam terminantes. cap. 2. part. 3. num. 7.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.