{"id":7974,"date":"2022-10-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=7974"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:24:43","slug":"rare-papal-bull-in-french-to-convoke-the-council-of-trent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/rare-papal-bull-in-french-to-convoke-the-council-of-trent\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Papal Bull in French to Convoke the Council of Trent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Alan Krieger, Theology and Philosophy Librarian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Hesburgh Libraries has recently acquired an unusual and extremely rare document in early modern church history, a French-language edition of the bull issued by Pope Paul III to convoke the Council of Trent (1545-1563)<\/a>, La Bulle de nostre sainct P\u00e8re le Pape Paul troisiesme sur le Concile general qui se celebrera, le quatriesme dimanche de la Caresme prochaine\u00a0<\/em>(Lyon, 1544). The Council was originally planned to begin in November 1542, but because of the conflict between King Francis I of France and Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, the convocation was delayed. This Council would prove to be a pivotal event in modern church history, essentially launching the Catholic Reformation across a range of important doctrinal issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul III, whose pontificate spanned the years 1534-1549, also published Latin-language versions in Cologne, Ingolstadt, Magdeburg, Nurnberg, and Rome, while a German edition was issued in Augsburg. In this edition, the bull is preceded by a letter written by the Pope to the Archbishop of Lyon concerning the Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have located only one other copy of this French version among recorded holdings worldwide, in France’s Bibliotheque Nationale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hesburgh Libraries has recently acquired an unusual and extremely rare document in early modern church history, a French-language edition of the bull issued by Pope Paul III to convoke the Council of Trent (1545-1563), La Bulle de nostre sainct P\u00e8re le Pape Paul troisiesme sur le Concile general qui se celebrera, le quatriesme dimanche de … Continue reading Rare Papal Bull in French to Convoke the Council of Trent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":7986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12646,75056],"tags":[77938,77967,75749],"class_list":["post-7974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-theology-church-history","tag-book","tag-pamphlets","tag-recent-acquisitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7974"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12282,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7974\/revisions\/12282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}