The history of the popes, from the close of the middle ages : drawn ...

THE XVIIIth SESSION. 267
with their instructions of January ist/ the following requests
were set forth : In
order to avoid giving offence to the Pro-
testants, it was desired that no pronouncement as to the
continuation of the Council should be made at present ;
that
the next Session should be postponed as long as possible ;
that questions of dogma should in the meantime be adjourned,
and less important matters dealt with ;
a condemnation of the
Confession of Augsburg should be avoided in drawing up the
Index ; the Protestants must receive safe-conduct in the
widest sense of the term, and in the form which they them-
selves wished. The provisional reply of the legates to these
demands was drawn up in very conciliatory terms.-
On February 17th the legates admonished the fathers
of the Council to keep secret the questions submitted to them
for consideration ; they were only to be made known when
the decrees had been drawn up and published in the public
Session.^
At the General Congregation of February 24th the Bishop
of Fiinfkirchen delivered his mandate as Hungarian envoy.
On the same day the Jubilee indulgence granted by the Pope
in a brief of February 14th, was published.^
The XVIIIth Session, the second under Pius IV., was held
on February 26th. ^ The five legates were present, with
Cardinal Madruzzo of Trent, three patriarchs, sixteen arch-
bishops, a hundred and five bishops, four abbots, five generals
of orders, fifty theologians and four orators. High Mass
was celebrated by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Antonio Elio,
after which a sermon was preached by Antonio Cauco, Arch-
^ Printed in Sickel, Konzil, 252-60. Cf. Kross, 455
Kassowitz, 30 seq. ; Eder, I., 107 seq., 114 seq., 127.
^
seq. ;
2 See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 17; Le Plat, V., 35 seq. Cf.
SusTA, II., 23 seq. ; Sickel, Konzil, 269 ; Eder, I., 128.
* See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 18 ; Le Plat, V., 36 ; Theiner, I.,
686 seq.
* See Le Plat, V., 37-43 ; Theiner, L, 690.
5 Theiner, I., 689. The Papal brief i,n Le Plat, V., 43.
^ Cj. Raynaldus, 1562, n. 19-21 ; Theiner, I., 691 ; Musotti,
in Bollinger, Konzil, II., 9 seq. ; cf. Pallavicini, 15, 21.