trators, by what names soever they be called, and in what manner soeyer exempted: observing the form of the Constitution of the Council of Vienne, which begins quia contingit, Whichconstitution this same holy synod hath thought fit to renew, and doth hereby renew, together with the derogations contained therein.
INDICTION OF THE NEXT SESSION.
This sacred and holy synod hath also resolved and decreed that the next ensuing session be held and celebrated on Thursday, the fifth day after the coming Sunday in Albis,[1] which will be the 21st of the month of April of the present year, 1547.
BULL OF FACULTY TO TRANSFER THE COUNCIL.
Paul, Bishop, servant of the servants of God, to our venerable brother Giammaria, bishop of Palsestrina, and to our beloved sons, Marcellus, of the title of the Holy Cross, in Jerusalem, priest, and Reginald, of Saint Mary in Cosmedin, deacon, cardinals, our legates a latere and those of the Apostolical See, health and apostolical benediction.
We, by the appointment of God, presiding over the government of the universal church, though with merits unequal thereunto, deem it a part of our office that, if anything of more than usual moment have to be settled touching the Christian commonweal, it be done not only at a suitable season, but also in a convenient and fitting place. Wherefore, whereas we lately, with the advice and consent of our venerable brethren the cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, upon hearing that peace had been made between our most dear sons in Christ, Charles, the Emperor of the Romans, ever august, and Francis, the most Christian King of the French, after we had taken off and removed the suspension of the celebration of the sacred œcumenical and universal council, which we had on another occasion, for reasons then
- ↑ I.e. Low Sunday. "In Latin, it is called 'Dominica in Albis, or rather post Albas (sc. depositas), as some ritualists call it, i.e the Sunday of putting off the chrysoms; because those that were baptized on Easter-eve on this day laid aside those white robes, or chrysoms, which were put upon them at their baptism, and which were now laid up in the churches, that they might be produced as evidences against them if they should afterwards violate or deny that faith which they had professed in their baptism."—"Wheatly on the Common Prayer, ch. y. sec. ziz.
