letters of our most holy lord, and that further matters be proceeded with?
They answered: It pleaseth.
INDICTION OF THE NEXT SESSION.
Doth it please you that the next ensuing session be held and celebrated on the ensuing calends of September?
They answered: It pleaseth.
SESSION THE TWELFTH,
Being the second under the Sovereign Pontiff Julius III,, celebrated on the first day of September, 1661.
DECREE FOR THE PROROGUING OF THE SESSION.
The sacred and holy, œcumenical and general Synod of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, the same legate and nuncios of the Apostolic See presiding therein,—having, in the session just past, decreed, that this next session should be celebrated on this day, and that further matters were to be proceeded with; whereas it has hitherto delayed to proceed, on account of the absence of the illustrious German nation, whose interests it principally concerns, and on account of the assemblage of the fathers not [being] numerous; at this very time rejoicing in the Lord, and giving deserved thanks to that same Almighty God, for the arrival, a little before this day, of our venerable brethren and sons in Christ, the archbishops of Mavence and Treves, electoral princes of the holy Roman empire, and also of several other bishops of that and of other provinces; and conceiving a firm hope that very many other prelates, both of Germany itself and of other nations, will, moved by the requirement of their office and by this example, arrive in a few days, [the synod] indicts the next session, from the fortieth day from this present, which will be the eleventh of the next month of October; and prosecuting the said council in the state wherein it is now found, whereas in the preceding sessions definite rules were laid down[1] touching the even sacraments of the new law in general, and on baptism and
- ↑ Definitum fuerit.
