Sacred houses may not be dedicated to angels or Saints for cult, though ancient memorials of martyrs are not condemned

Dedicating a sacred building to angels or to Saints in heaven is held altogether unlawful.

The ban covers not only offering them sacrifice there, but honoring and invoking them with any rites.

The old custom is not condemned when churches kept the martyrs' memory, thanked God for their victories, and offered the Eucharist to God, which honored holy men greatly.

Rivet's note on the Apology for the Blessed Virgin is the reference.

Latin

XXV. Itaque prorsus illicitum putant Angelis, & hominibus Sanctis in caelum receptis, aedes sacras dicare, non tantum ut illis ibi sacrificium offeratur, sed etiam ut illic ritibus quibuscunque colantur atque invocentur, quanquam non damnent morem Ecclesiae veteris, in qua solenne fuit aedes sacras inter alia eo fine struere ut ibi memoria Martyrum conservaretur, & gratiae Deo agerentur de victoriis per Dei gratiam ab iis reportatis, eoque nomine sacrificia Eucharistica Deo offerrentur, quod in Sanctorum virorum maximum honorem cedebat. Ut apud Andream Rivetum videre est, in consideratione ad articulum tertium Judicii viri docti, de ejus Apologia pro Beata Virgine, quod in fine illius Apologiae legitur.

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

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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)
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