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

284 HISTORY OF THE POPES.
After the necessary preparations had been made in the
General Congregation of June 3rd, the XXth Session, the
fourth under Pius IV. was held on June 4th. At this assembly,
all the legates, with the exception of Gonzaga, were present,
as well as Cardinal Madruzzo, two patriarchs, eighteen arch-
bishops, a hundred and thirty-seven bishops, two abbots, four
generals of orders, twenty-eight theologians, and eleven
orators. High Mass was celebrated by Bishop Mendo9a of
Salamanca, and the sermon was preached by the Bishop of
Famagosta, Girolamo Ragazzoni. On account of the diffi-
culties caused by the questions of residence and continuation,
no decrees were published, only the mandates of the Swiss,
Salzburg, and French orators and procurators being read,
and a decree of prorogation, which fixed the next Session for
June i6th. The greater number of the fathers accepted this
decree, but thirty-eight raised an objection to the omission
of any mention of the duty of residence and continuation.^
In the General Congregation of June 6th, Cardinal Gonzaga
submitted, as the subject of the next dogmatic decree, five
articles on Communion in both kinds, and the Communion of
children. 2 Thirty-one bishops declared their agreement to
this proposal, but only on condition that the duty of residence
should also be dealt with. The same minority also addressed
a very outspoken petition to the Pope on the same day, in
which they defended their position with regard to the duty of
residence as a divine command, and protested against the
tendency ascribed to them of intending to undermine the
authority of the Holy See.^' Pius IV. replied on July ist that
it was his desire that freedom of speech and discussion should
exist in the Council, but at the same time he warned the
fathers against divisions and discord, so as not to give the
Protestants an excuse to revile and disparage the Council.^
^ See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 47, 48; Theiner, II., i seq. ;
Seripandi Comment., 488. Cf. Pallavicini, 16, 12, 9-12.
2 See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 49 ; Le Plat, V., 202 ; Theiner, II.,
7. Cf. Pallavicini, 17, i.
* Le Plat, V., 199-200.
* Ibid., 360 seq.