The Council of Trent

 THE BULL OF INDICTION OF THE SACRED OECUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, PAUL III

 SESSION THE FIRST OF THE OECUMENICAL AND GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT

 DECREE TOUCHING THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL

 SESSION THE SECOND

 DECREE TOUCHING THE MANNER OF LIVING, AND OTHER MATTERS TO BE OBSERVED, DURING THE COUNCIL

 SESSION THE THIRD

 DECREE TOUCHING THE SYMBOL OF FAITH

 SESSION THE FOURTH

 DECREE CONCERNING THE CANONICAL SCRIPTURES

 DECREE CONCERNING THE EDITION, AND THE USE, OF THE SACRED BOOKS

 SESSION THE FIFTH

 DECREE CONCERNING ORIGINAL SIN

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 CHAPTER I. On the Institution of a Lectureship of Sacred Scripture, and of the liberal arts.

 CHAPTER II. On Preachers of the word of God, and on Questors of alms.

 SESSION THE SIXTH

 DECREE ON JUSTIFICATION

 Proem.

 CHAPTER I. On the Inability of Nature and of the Law to justify man.

 CHAPTER II. On the dispensation and mystery of Christ's advent.

 CHAPTER III. Who are justified through Christ.

 CHAPTER IV. A description is introduced of the Justification of the impious, and of the Manner thereof under the law of grace.

 CHAPTER V. On the necessity, in adults, of preparation for Justification, and whence it proceeds.

 CHAPTER VI. The manner of Preparation.

 CHAPTER VII. What the justification of the impious is, and what are the causes thereof.

 CHAPTER VIII. In what manner it is to be understood, that the impious is justified by faith, and gratuitously.

 CHAPTER IX. Against the vain confidence of Heretics.

 CHAPTER X. On the increase of Justification received.

 CHAPTER XI. On keeping the Commandments, and on the necessity and possibility thereof.

 CHAPTER XII. That a rash presumptuousness in the matter of Predestination is to be avoided.

 CHAPTER XIII. On the gift of Perseverance.

 CHAPTER XIV. On the fallen, and their restoration.

 CHAPTER XV. That, by every mortal sin, grace is lost, but not faith.

 CHAPTER XVI. On the fruit of Justification, that is, on the merit of good works, and on the nature of that merit.

 ON JUSTIFICATION

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 CHAPTER I. It is meet that prelates reside in their own churches if they act otherwise, the penalties of the ancient law are renewed against them, an

 CHAPTER II. It is not lawful for any one who holds a benefice requiring personal residence to absent himself, save for a just cause to be approved of

 CHAPTER III. The excesses of Secular clerics and of Regulars who live out of their monasteries, shall be corrected by the Ordinary of the place.

 CHAPTER IV. Bishops and other greater prelates shall visit any churches whatsoever, as often as there shall be need everything which might hinder thi

 CHAPTER V. Bishops shall neither exercise any pontifical function, nor ordain, in another diocese.

 SESSION THE SEVENTH

 DECREE ON THE SACRAMENTS

 ON THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL

 ON BAPTISM

 ON CONFIRMATION

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 CHAPTER I. Who is capable of governing Cathedral churches.

 CHAPTER II. The holders of several Cathedral churches are commanded to resign all but one, in a given manner and time.

 CHAPTER IV. The retainer of several Benefices contrary to the Canons, shall be deprived thereof.

 CHAPTER VI. What unions of Benefices shall be accounted valid.

 CHAPTER VII. United Ecclesiastical Benefices shall be visited: the cure thereof shall be exercised even by perpetual vicars who shall be deputed ther

 CHAPTER VIII. Churches shall be repaired: the cure of souls sedulously discharged.

 CHAPTER IX. The duty of consecration not to be delayed.

 CHAPTER X. When a See is vacant, Chapters shall not grant 'reverends' to any unless straitened because of a Benefice obtained, or about to be obtained

 CHAPTER XI. Faculties for promotion shall not avail any one without a just cause.

 CHAPTER XII. Faculties for not being promoted shall not exceed a year.

 CHAPTER XIII. Individuals by whomsoever presented shall not be instituted without being previously examined and approved of by the Ordinary with cert

 CHAPTER XIV. The civil causes of exempted persons which may be taken cognizance of by bishops.

 CHAPTER XV. Ordinaries shall take care that all manner of hospitals, even those exempted, be faithfully governed by their adminstrators.

 BULL WITH FACULTY TO TRANFER THE COUNCIL

 SESSION THE EIGHTH

 DECREE CONCERNING THE TRANSLATION OF THE COUNCIL

 SESSION THE NINTH

 DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION

 SESSION THE TENTH

 DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION

 BULL FOR THE RESUMPTION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, JULIUS III

 SESSION THE ELEVENTH

 DECREE FOR RESUMING THE COUNCIL

 SESSION THE TWELFTH

 SESSION THE THIRTEENTH

 DECREE CONCERNING THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST

 CHAPTER I. On the real presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist.

 CHAPTER II. On the reason of the Institution of this most holy Sacrament.

 CHAPTER III. On the excellency of the most holy Eucharist over the rest of the Sacraments.

 CHAPTER IV. On Transubstantiation.

 CHAPTER V. On the cult and veneration to be shown to this most holy Sacrament.

 CHAPTER VI. On reserving the Sacrament of the sacred Eucharist, and bearing it to the Sick.

 CHAPTER VII. On the preparation to be given that one may worthily receive the sacred Eucharist.

 CHAPTER VIII. On the use of this admirable Sacrament.

 ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 CHAPTER I. Bishops shall apply themselves with prudence to reform the manners of their subjects: from the correction of those bishops there shall be a

 CHAPTER II. An appeal from the bishop in criminal causes, when to be committed to the Metropolitan, or to one of the nearest bishops.

 CHAPTER III. The acts of the first instance shall, within thirty days, be given gratuitously to the accused appellant.

 CHAPTER IV. In what manner clerics are, on account of grievous crimes, to be degraded from sacred Orders.

 CHAPTER V. The bishop shall take summary cognizance of graces whereby a sin, or a punishment, is remitted.

 CHAPTER VI. A bishop shall not be personally cited, save in a case involving deposition, or deprivation.

 CHAPTER VII. The qualifications of witnesses against a bishop are described.

 CHAPTER VIII. Important episcopal causes shall be taken cognizance of by the Supreme Pontiff.

 DECREE FOR POSTPONING THE DEFINITION OF FOUR ARTICLES TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST, AND FOR GIVING A SAFE-CONDUCT TO PROTESTANTS

 SAFE-CONDUCT GRANTED TO PROTESTANTS

 SESSION THE FOURTEENTH

 ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENTS OF PENANCE AND EXTREME UNCTION

 Doctrine on the Sacrament of Penance.

 CHAPTER I. On the necessity, and on the institution of the Sacrament of Penance.

 CHAPTER II. On the difference between the Sacrament of Penance and that of Baptism

 CHAPTER III. On the parts, and on the fruit of this Sacrament.

 CHAPTER IV. On Contrition.

 CHAPTER V. On Confession.

 CHAPTER VI. On the ministry of this Sacrament, and on Absolution.

 CHAPTER VII. On the Reservation of Cases.

 CHAPTER VIII. On the necessity and on the fruit of Satisfaction.

 CHAPTER IX. On Works of Satisfaction.

 ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION

 CHAPTER I. On the Institution of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction.

 CHAPTER II. On the Effect of this Sacrament.

 CHAPTER III. On the Minister of this Sacrament, and on the time when it ought to be administered.

 ON THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

 ON THE SACRAMENT OF EXTREME UNCTION

 DECREE ON REFORMATION.

 Proem.

 CHAPTER I. If any, being prohibited, or interdicted, or suspended, advance to orders, they shall be punished.

 CHAPTER II. If a bishop shall confer any orders whatsoever on one not subject to him, be he even his own domestic, without the express consent of that

 CHAPTER III. The bishop may suspend his clerics, who have been improperly promoted by another, if he find them incompetent.

 CHAPTER IV. No cleric shall be exempt from the correction of the bishop, even out of the time of visitation.

 CHAPTER V. The jurisdiction of Conservators is confined within certain limits.

 CHAPTER VI. A penalty is decreed against clerics, who, being in sacred Orders, or holding benefices, do not wear a dress beseeming their Order.

 CHAPTER VII. Voluntary homicides are n ever to be ordained: in what manner involuntary homicides are to be ordained.

 CHAPTER VIII. No one shall, by virtue of any privilege, punish the clerics of another.

 CHAPTER IX. The Benefices of one Diocese shall not, under any pretext, be united to the Benefices of another Diocese.

 CHAPTER X. Regular Benefices shall be conferred on Regulars.

 CHAPTER XI. Those transferred to another order shall remain under obedience in enclosure, and shall be incapable of Secular Benefices.

 CHAPTER XII. No one shall obtain a right of patronage, except by means of a foundation, or an endowment.

 CHAPTER XIII. The Presentation shall be made to the Ordinary otherwise the Presentation and Institution shall be null.

 CHAPTER XIV. That the Mass, Order, and Reformation, shall be next treated of.

 SESSION THE FIFTEENTH

 DECREE FOR PROROGUING THE SESSION

 SAFE-CONDUCT GIVEN TO THE PROTESTANTS

 SESSION THE SIXTEENTH

 DECREE FOR THE SUSPENSION OF THE COUNCIL

 BULL FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE COUNCIL OF TRENT, UNDER THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF, PIUS IV

 SESSION THE SEVENTEENTH

 DECREE FOR CELEBRATING THE COUNCIL

 SESSION THE EIGHTEENTH

 DECREE ON THE CHOICE OF BOOKS AND FOR INVITING ALL MEN ON THE PUBLIC FAITH TO THE COUNCIL

 SAFE-CONDUCT GRANTED TO THE GERMAN NATION

 EXTENSION THEREOF TO OTHER NATIONS

 SESSION THE NINETEENTH

 DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION

 SESSION THE TWENTIETH

 DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION

 SESSION THE TWENTY-FIRST

 DECREE ON COMMUNION UNDER BOTH SPECIES, AND THE COMMUNION OF INFANTS Note: This title is missing in the Waterworth translation, 1848 edition.

 CHAPTER I. That laymen and clerics, when not sacrifising, are not bound, of divine right, to communion under both species.

 CHAPTER II. The power of the Church as regards the dispensation of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

 CHAPTER III. That Christ whole and entire, and a true Sacrament are received under either species.

 CHAPTER IV. That little Children are not bound to sacramental Communion.

 ON COMMUNION UNDER BOTH SPECIES, AND ON THE COMMUNION OF INFANTS

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 Proem.

 CHAPTER I. Bishops shall both confer orders, and give dimissory letters and testimonials gratis: their servants shall receive nothing therefrom, and n

 CHAPTER II. Those who have not wherewith to live, are excluded from sacred Orders.

 CHAPTER III. A method of increasing the daily distributions is prescribed the persons to whom they shall be due: the contumacy of those who do not se

 CHAPTER IV. In what case Coadjutors are to be employed for the cure of souls.--The manner of erecting new parishes is set forth.

 CHAPTER V. Bishops shall be able to form perpetual unions, in the cases by law permitted.

 CHAPTER VI. To ignorant Rectors, Vicars shall be, for the time being, deputed with a portion of the fruits those continuing to give scandal may be de

 CHAPTER VII. Bishops shall transfer, together with their obligations, churches which cannot be restored others they shall cause to be repaired.

 CHAPTER VIII. Commendatory monasteries, wherein regular observance is not in vigour, and all benefices so ever, shall be by bishops annually visited.

 CHAPTER IX. The name and use of Questors of Alms is abolished.- The Ordinaries shall publish indulgences and spiritual graces.-- Two of the Chapters s

 SESSION THE TWENTY-SECOND

 DOCTRINE ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.

 CHAPTER I. On the institution of the most holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

 CHAPTER II. That the Sacrifice of the Mass is propitiatory both for the living and the dead.

 CHAPTER III. On Masses in honour of the Saints.

 CHAPTER IV On the Canon of the Mass.

 CHAPTER V. On the solemn ceremonies of the Sacrifice of the Mass.

 CHAPTER VI. On Mass wherein the priest alone communicates.

 CHAPTER VII. On the water that is to be mixed with the wine to be offered in the chalice.

 CHAPTER VIII. On not celebrating the Mass every where in the vulgar tongue the mysteries of the Mass to be explained to the people.

 CHAPTER IX. Preliminary Remark on the following Canons.

 ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.

 DECREE CONCERNING THE THINGS TO BE OBSERVED, AND TO BE AVOIDED, IN THE CELEBRATION OF MASS.

 DECREE ON REFORMATION.

 CHAPTER I. The Canons relative to the life, and propriety of conduct of Clerics are renewed.

 CHAPTER II. Who are to be promoted to Cathedral Churches.

 CHAPTER III. Daily distributions, out of the third part of all fruits soever, are to be established on whom the portion of absentees devolves certa

 CHAPTER IV. Those not initiated into a sacred Order, shall not have a voice in the chapter of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church. The qualifications a

 CHAPTER V. Dispensations expedited out of the (Roman) court shall be committed to the Bishop, and be by him examined.

 CHAPTER VI Last intentions to be altered with caution.

 CHAPTER VII. The chapter Romana, in the sixth (of the Decretals), is renewed.

 CHAPTER VIII. Bishops shall execute the pious dispositions of all persons shall visit all manner of pious places, if not under the immediate protecti

 CHAPTER IX. Administrators of any pious places whatsoever shall give in their accounts to the Ordinary, unless it be otherwise provided by the foundat

 CHAPTER X. Notaries shall be subject to the examination and judgment of the Bishops.

 CHAPTER XI. Usurpers of the property of any Church, or pious places, are punished.

 DECREE TOUCHING THE PETITION FOR THE CONCESSION OF THE CHALICE.

 SESSION THE TWENTY-THIRD

 THE TRUE AND CATHOLIC DOCTRINE, TOUCHING THE SACRAMENT OF ORDER, DECREED AND PUBLISHED BY THE HOLY SYNOD OF TRENT, IN THE SEVENTH SESSION, IN CONDEMNA

 CHAPTER I. On the institution of the Priesthood of the New Law.

 CHAPTER II. On the Seven Orders.

 CHAPTER III. That Order is truly and properly a Sacrament.

 CHAPTER IV On the Ecclesiastical hierarchy, and on Ordination.

 ON THE SACRAMENT OF ORDER.

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 CHAPTER II. Those set over Churches shall receive the rite of consecration within three months where the consecration is to take place.

 CHAPTER III. Bishops, except in case of illness, shall confer Order in person.

 CHAPTER IV Who are to be initiated by the first tonsure.

 CHAPTER V Wherewith those who are to be ordained are to be furnished.

 CHAPTER VI The age of fourteen years is required for an ecclesiastical benfice who is to enjoy the privilege of the (ecclesiastical) court.

 CHAPTER VII. Those to be ordained are to be examined by persons versed in divine and human laws.

 CHAPTER VIII. How, and by whom, each ought to be ordained.

 CHAPTER IX. A bishop ordaining one of his own household, shall at once and really confer upon him a benefice.

 CHAPTER X. Prelates inferior to bishops shall not give the tonsure, or minor orders, save to Regulars their own subjects neither shall they, nor any

 CHAPTER XI. The interstices, and certain other regulations, to be observed in receiving minor orders.

 CHAPTER XII. Age required for the major orders the deserving only to be admitted.

 CHAPTER XIII. On the conditions required in the Ordination of a Subdeacon and Deacon: on no one shall two sacred Orders be conferred on the same day.

 CHAPTER XIV. Who are to be raised to the Priesthood: their office.

 CHAPTER XV. No one shall hear confessions, unless he be approved of by the Ordinary.

 CHAPTER XVI. Those who are ordained shall be assigned to a particular church.

 CHAPTER XVII. In what manner the exercise of the minor orders is to be restored.

 CHAPTER XVIII. Method of establishing Seminaries for Clerics, and of educating the same therein.

 SESSION THE TWENTY-FOURTH

 DOCTRINE ON THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY

 ON THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY.

 DECREE ON THE REFORMATION OF MARRIAGE

 CHAPTER I. The form prescribed in the Council of Lateran for solemnly contracting marriage is renewed.--Bishops may dispense with the bans.--Whosoever

 CHAPTER II. Between whom Spiritual Relationship is contracted.

 CHAPTER III. The impediment of public honesty is confined within certain limits.

 CHAPTER IV. Affinity arising from fornication is confined to the second degree.

 CHAPTER V. No one is to marry within the prohibited degrees: in what manner dispensation is to be granted therein.

 CHAPTER VI. Punishments inflicted on Abductors.

 CHAPTER VII. Vagrants are to be married with caution.

 CHAPTER VIII. Concubinage is severely punished.

 CHAPTER IX. Temporal lords, or magistrates, shall not attempt anything contrary to the liberty of marriage.

 CHAPTER X. The solemnities of marriage are prohibited at certain times.

 DECREE ON REFORMATION

 CHAPTER I. The manner of proceeding to the creation of Bishops and Cardinals.

 CHAPTER II. A Provincial Synod to be celebrated every third year, a Diocesan Synod every year: who are to convoke, and who to be present thereat.

 CHAPTER IV. By whom, and when, the office of preaching is to be discharged: the Parish Church to be frequented in order to hear the word of God. No on

 CHAPTER V. In criminal causes against Bishops, the greater causes shall be taken cognizance of by the Sovereign Pontiff only, the less by the Provinci

 CHAPTER VI. When and how the Bishop may absolve from crime, and dispense in cases of irregularity and suspension.

 CHAPTER VII. The virtue of the Sacraments shall, before being administered to the people, be explained by Bishops and Parish Priests during the solem

 CHAPTER VIII. On public sinners, a public penance shall be imposed, unless the Bishop shall determine otherwise: a Penitentiary to be instituted in Ca

 CHAPTER IX. By whom Secular Churches, not of any diocese, are to be visited.

 CHAPTER X. Where visitation and correction of morals are concerned, no suspension of decrees is allowed.

 CHAPTER XI. Honorary titles, or particular privileges, shall not derogate in any way from the right of bishops.

 CHAPTER XII. What manner of persons those ought to be who are to be promoted to the dignities and canonries of Cathedral Churches: and what those so p

 CHAPTER XIII. In what manner provision is to be made for the more slightly endowed Cathedral and Parish Churches: Parishes are to be distinguished by

 CHAPTER XIV. In promotions to benefices, or in admissions into possession of the same, any deductions from the fruits, not applied to pious uses, are

 CHAPTER XV. Method of increasing the slight prebends of Cathedral, and of eminent Collegiate Churches.

 CHAPTER XVI. What duty devolves on the Chapter during the vacancy of a See.

 CHAPTER XVII. In what case it is lawful to confer more than one benefice upon one individual and for him to retain the same.

 CHAPTER XVIII. Upon a Parish Church becoming vacant, a Vicar is to be deputed thereunto by the Bishop, until it be provided with a Parish Priest: in w

 CHAPTER XIX. Mandates 'de providendo,' Expectatives, and other things of the like kind are abrogated.

 CHAPTER XX. The manner of conducting causes, appertaining to the Ecclesiastical court, is prescribed.

 CHAPTER XXI. It is declared, that, by certain words used previously, the usual manner of treating business in General Councils is not changed.

 SESSION THE TWENTY-FIFTH

 DECREE CONCERNING PURGATORY.

 ON THE INVOCATION, VENERATION, AND RELICS, OF SAlNTS, AND ON SACRED IMAGES.

 ON REGULARS AND NUNS

 CHAPTER I. All ReguIars shall order their lives in accordance with what is prescribed by the rule which they have professed Superiors shall sedulousl

 CHAPTER II. Property is wholly prohibited to Regulars.

 CHAPTER IV. A Regular shall not, without the permission of his Superior, either place himself at the service of another, or retire from his Monastery:

 CHAPTER V. Provision is made for the enclosure and safety of Nuns.

 CHAPTER VI. Manner of choosing Regular Superiors.

 CHAPTER VII. In what way, and what manner of, persons are to be chosen as Abbesses, or Superioresses by whatsoever other name no one shall be appoint

 CHAPTER VIII. In what manner the regulation of Monasteries, which have not ordinary Regular visitors, is to be proceeded with.

 CHAPTER X. Nuns shall confess and communicate once a month an extraordinary Confessor shall be assigned them by the Bishop. The Eucharist shall not b

 CHAPTER XI. In Monasteries, which are charged with the cure of the souls of laymen, they who exercise that cure shall be subject to the Bishop, and be

 CHAPTER XII. Episcopal censures, and festivals appointed in the diocese, shall be observed even by Regulars.

 CHAPTER XIII. The Bishop shall settle disputes about precedency. Exempted persons, not living in the more strict enclosures, are obliged to attend at

 CHAPTER XIV. By whom punishment is to be inflicted on a Regular who sins publicly.

 CHAPTER XV. Profession shall not be made except after a year 's probation, and at the age of sixteen years completed.

 CHAPTER XVI. Any renunciation made, or obligation entered into, previous to the two months' nearest Profession, shall be null. The probation ended, th

 CHAPTER XVII. If a girl, who is more than twelve years of age, wish to take the Regular Habit, she shall be questioned by the Ordinary, and again befo

 CHAPTER XVIII. No one shall, except in the cases by law expressed, compel a woman to enter a Monastery or prevent her, if she desire to enter. The co

 CHAPTER XIX. How to proceed in cases of pretended invalidity of profession.

 CHAPTER XX. Superiors of orders not subject to bishops shall visit and correct inferior Monasteries, even though held in commendam.

 CHAPTER XXI. Over Monasteries, Religious of that same order shall be appointed.

 CHAPTER XXII. The Decrees touching the Reformation of Regulars shall be carried into execution at once by all.

 DECREE ON REFORMATION.

 CHAPTER I. Cardinals and all Prelates of the churches shall be content with modest furniture and a frugal table: they shall not enrich their relatives

 CHAPTER II. By whom individually the Decrees of the Council are to be solemnly received and by whom a profession of faith is to be made.

 CHAPTER III. The sword of excommunication is not to be rashly used: when an execution can be made on property or person, censures are to be abstained

 CHAPTER IV. Where the number of Masses to be celebrated is excessive, Bishops, Abbots, and Generals, shall make such regulation as shall seem to them

 CHAPTER V. The conditions and obligations imposed on Benefices shall be observed.

 CHAPTER VI. In what manner the Bishop ought to act in regard of the visitation of exempted Chapters.

 CHAPTER VII. The Access and Regress in regard of Benefices are done away with in what manner, to whom, and for what cause, a Coadjutor is to be gran

 CHAPTER VIII. What is to be observed in regard to Hospitals. By whom, and in what manner, the negligence of administrators is to be punished.

 CHAPTER IX. In what manner a right of patronage is to be proved, and to whom granted: what is not lawful for patrons. Unions of free benefices, to chu

 CHAPTER X. Judges, unto whom causes may be committed by the Apostolie See, are to be nominated by the Synod: all judges shall terminate causes speedil

 CHAPTER XI. Certain leases of Ecclesiastical Property or rights are prohibited certain other such leases are annulled.

 CHAPTER XII. Tithes to be paid in full: those withholding, or hindering, the payment thereof are to be excommunicated: the Rectors of Poor Churches ar

 CHAPTER XIII. The fourth of Funeral (dues) shall be paid to the Cathedral or Parish Churches.

 CHAPTER XIV. The manner of proceeding against Clerics who keep concubines is prescribed.

 CHAPTER XV. The illegitimate Sons of Clerics are excluded from certain Benefices and Pensions.

 CHAPTER XVI. Benefices with cure shall not be converted into simple Benefices: a suitable portion of the fruits shall be assigned to the Vicar who exe

 CHAPTER XVII. Bishops shall maintain their dignity nor conduct themseIves with unworthy servility towards the Ministers of Kings, towards Lords, or B

 CHAPTER XVIII. The Canons shall be exactly observed: if, at any time, a dispensation is to be granted in regard thereof, it shall be done with the mos

 CHAPTER XIX. Duelling is prohibited under the most severe penalties.

 CHAPTER XX. The Immunities, Liberty, and other Rights of the Church are recommended to Secular Princes.

 CHAPTER XXI. In all things the authority of the Aposto1ic See shall remain untouched.

 DECREE FOR CONTINUING THE SESSION ON THE FOLLOWING DAY.

 CONTINUATION OF THE SESSION.

 DECREE CONCERNING INDULGENCES.

 ON CHOICE OF MEATS ON FASTS, AND FESTIVAL DAYS.

 ON THE INDEX OF BOOKS ON THE CATECHISM, BREVIARY, AND MISSAL.

 ON THE PLACE OF AMBASSADORS.

 ON RECEIVING AND OBSERVING THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL.

 ON RECITING, IN SESSION, THE DECREES OF THE COUNCIL UNDER PAUL III. AND JULIUS III.

 ON THE CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL, AND ON SUING FOR CONFIRMATION FROM OUR MOST HOLY LORD.

 ACCLAMATIONS OF THE FATHERS AT THE CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL.

 CONFIRMATION OF THE COUNCIL.

 BULL OF OUR MOST HOLY LORD PIUS IV., BY PROVIDENCE OF GOD, POPE, TOUCHING THE CONFIRMATION OF THE OECUMENICAL (AND) GENERAL COUNCIL OF TRENT.

DECREE ON THE SACRAMENTS

Proem.

For the completion of the salutary doctrine on Justification, which was promulgated with the unanimous consent of the Fathers in the last preceding Session, it hath seemed suitable to treat of the most holy Sacraments of the Church, through which all true justice either begins, or being begun is increased, or being lost is repaired. With this view, in order to destroy the errors and to extirpate the heresies, which have appeared [Page 54] in these our days on the subject of the said most holy sacraments,-as well those which have been revived from the heresies condemned of old by our Fathers, as also those newly invented, and which are exceedingly prejudicial to the purity of the Catholic Church, and to the salvation of souls,-the sacred and holy, oecumenical and general Synod of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, the same legates of the Apostolic See presiding therein, adhering to the doctrine of the holy Scriptures, to the apostolic traditions, and to the consent of other councils and of the Fathers, has thought fit that these present canons be established and decreed; intending, the divine Spirit aiding, to publish later the remaining canons which are wanting for the completion of the work which It has begun.