Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent/Session XVII/Celebrating the Council
SESSION THE SEVENTEENTH
Of the Holy, Œcumenical, and General Council of Trent, being the first under the Sovereign Pontiff Pius IV., celebrated on the eighteenth day of January, 1562.
DECREE FOR CELEBRATING THE COUNCIL.
Doth it please you, unto the praise and glory of the Holy and undivided Trinity, Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost, unto the increase and exaltation of the faith, and of the Christian religion, that the sacred, œcumenical, and general Council of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, be, all manner of suspension removed, celebrated from this day, which is the eighteenth of the month of January, in the year mdlxii from our Lord's nativity, consecrated to the chair of the blessed Peter, according to the form and tenor of the letter of our most holy lord, the Sovereign Pontiff: Pius IV.; and that, due order being observed, those things be treated of therein, which, the legates and presidents proposing, shall appear to the said holy synod fitting and proper for alleviating the calamities of these times, appeasing controversies concerning religion, restraining deceitful tongues, correcting the abuses of depraved manners, and procuring for the Church a true and Christian peace?
They answered: It pleaseth.