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Most of the texts in the Decretals on the consecration of churches have
to do with reconsecrating polluted churches (usually polluted by
bloodshed). Interesting stuff. One text c. Ligneis (X 3.40.6) does
prohibit consecrating a church or its altar if roof and walls are not
intact.
Some of the canons of early councils did not make it into the canon law
as taught at the universities, but the Pseudo Isidore decretals were
back in circulation by the time of the Council of Constance
(1414-1418). The old edition of Paul Hinschius might be worth checking
for related texts.
Decretales pseudo-Isidorianae, et, Capitula Angilramni :
ad fidem librorum manuscriptorum recensuit, fontes indicavit,
commentationem de collectione pseudo-Isidori praemisit /
Paul Hinschius
1963, 1863
Latin Book Book ccxxxvii, 771 p. ; 25 cm.
Aalen : Scientia Verlag, ; ISBN: 3511000238 9783511000233
Tom Izbicki
Maureen A. Tilley wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Some of the footnotes to the old (1917) /Codex Iuris Canonici/ might
> behelpful. The notes cited below have been abbreviated to exclude
> post-medieval references.
>
> The canons themselves are available in Latin at
> http://www.geocities.com/catholic_profide/codex.htm but the footnotes
> are not there so I have copied them out. The page and note numbers
> come from the CIC (New York: P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1917).
>
> Canon 1255 section 2 (on images deserving veneration) p. 360 fn. 1: C.
> 27, 28 D. III, /de cons/.; Conc. Nicaen. II, actio VII, /definitio de
> sacris imaginibus/; actio VIII, /de imaginibus, humanitate Christi,
> traditione/; Con,Constantinopolitan. IV, actio X, can. 3. . . .
>
> Canon 1276 (similar, but spotlighting the Virgin Mary) p. 368 fn. 3:
> C. 27, 28, D. III, /de cons.; c.6, X, de celebratione missarum, et
> sacramento Eucharistiae, et divinis officiis/, III, 41; c. un., /de
> reliquiis et veneratione sanctorum/ III, 22, in VI; Conc. Nicaen
> II,actio VII, /definitio de sacris imaginibus/ . . . .
>
> Canon 1279 sections 1-4 deal with the permission of the Ordinary in
> the placement and exposure of images for veneration but the notes
> contain no pre-Tridentine references. Perhaps a look at the records of
> Trent might expose earlier precedents.
> Maureen A. Tilley
> Visiting Professor of Theology
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> Subject: Re: [M-R] image veneration and canon law
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> In Gratian's decretum, De consecratione, D. 1 c. 9 says no church
> is to
> be built without episcopal involvement. c. 25 says that no altar
> is to
> be consecrated without the bishop's approval. This is the closest
> I can
> find to what the text says. There are other canons requiring the
> consent of the apostolic see to dedicate a church. c. 7 says no
> processions are to be made to "oratories" which the apostolic see did
> not authorize.
>
> Tom Izbicki
>
> Luongo, F. Thomas wrote:
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> >
> >
> > In his book /"Pro remedio animae," Immagini sacre e pratiche
> > devozionali in Italia centrale/, Michele Bacci cites a late
> > 14th-century account in the episcopal archives in Lucca of the
> cult of
> > a miracle-producing image of the Blessed Virgin at one of the
> gates of
> > the city. A Luccan citizen is reported to have paid for the
> erection
> > of a structure (domum muratam) to protect the image "in
> ignorance of
> > the law." The same man also had an altar erected nearby for the
> > celebration of mass and the divine office without having
> received the
> > requisite license from the bishop.
> >
> > Can anyone help me to understand what law exactly is referred to
> > here? It seems almost common sense that erection of an altar would
> > require episcopal permission, and I would expect that a
> structure like
> > the one here would have required permission from civic
> authorities.
> > But the passage implies (at least, that's how I read it) that
> that the
> > erection of the "domum muratum" was in violation of canon law.
> >
> > What law would have governed the erection of a structure to protect
> > the icon? Does anyone know where I might find references to laws
> > regarding icons in public places (streets, street-corners,
> > city-gates)? Was there canon law that would have regulated the
> > erection and veneration of such images?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Tom Luongo
> >
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