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212 HISTORY OF THE POPES.<br />

This jubilee was <strong>close</strong>d by <strong>the</strong> Pope himself with a solemn<br />

procession, which took place on Sunday, November 24th.<br />

<strong>The</strong> grand cortege proceeded <strong>from</strong> St. Peter's, through <strong>the</strong><br />

Via de' Banchi, Monte Giordano, and <strong>the</strong> Piazza della Dogana,<br />

to S. Maria sopra Minerva, where <strong>the</strong> Cardinal Bishop <strong>of</strong> Porto,<br />

Ridolfo Pio di Carpi, celebrated High Mass. In <strong>the</strong> pro-<br />

cession Pius IV. walked barefoot, accompanied by Cardinals<br />

Farnese and Santa Flora, and all <strong>the</strong> Cardinals <strong>the</strong>n in Rome,<br />

twenty-one in number, were also to be seen. <strong>The</strong> ambassadors<br />

first carried <strong>the</strong> baldachino over <strong>the</strong> Pope, and afterwards <strong>the</strong><br />

nobles. All <strong>the</strong> members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Curia took part in <strong>the</strong> pro-<br />

cession, as did also <strong>the</strong> secular and regular clergy, as well as<br />

<strong>the</strong> seventeen secular confraternities <strong>of</strong> Rome, and <strong>the</strong> Duke<br />

<strong>of</strong> Florence, who walked between <strong>the</strong> two junior Cardinal<br />

Deacons, Carlo Borromeo and Giovanni de' Medici, his own<br />

son.^ <strong>The</strong> Roman people showed great piety during <strong>the</strong><br />

ceremony, and many communicated in order to gain <strong>the</strong><br />

indulgence. 2<br />

<strong>The</strong> publication <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> conciliar bull had also been originally<br />

intended for November 24th, but its appearance was delayed,<br />

as such great differences <strong>of</strong> opinion had arisen among <strong>the</strong><br />

Cardinals, canonists and <strong>the</strong>ologians who had been summoned<br />

to <strong>the</strong> conference, among whom was <strong>the</strong> General <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jesuits,<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, by which, however, no deception was intended, and<br />

still less any solution <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> difficulty, see Ehses, Berufung des<br />

Konzils, 23. <strong>The</strong> full text, but with wrong date is in <strong>the</strong><br />

Corpo. dipl. Portug., IX., 96 seq. ; also in Ehses, VIII.,<br />

100 seq.<br />

^ See Massarelli in Merkle, II., 349 ; Bondonus, 537 ; *letter<br />

<strong>of</strong> Fr. Tonina <strong>of</strong> November 27, 1560 (Gonzaga Archives, Mantua)<br />

<strong>the</strong> Portuguese report in <strong>the</strong> Corpo dipl. Portug., IX., 129. An<br />

*Avviso di Roma <strong>of</strong> November 30 states that Vargas had claimed<br />

that in <strong>the</strong> procession <strong>the</strong> ambassadors should walk after <strong>the</strong><br />

bishops and in front <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cardinals, and that in <strong>the</strong> end Pius IV.<br />

had assigned to <strong>the</strong> bishops <strong>the</strong>ir place behind <strong>the</strong> balachino.<br />

<strong>The</strong> procession was " belHssima et veramente rara." (Urb. 1039,<br />

p. 228b, Vatican Library).<br />

* See Bondonus, 537.

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