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CHAPTER IX.
The Mission of Morone to Ferdinand I. at Innsbruck,
1562-3.
After Pius IV. had received the decrees of the sixth Session,
he held congregations, at which reforms were discussed,
almost every day.^ The Council, on the other hand, entered
upon the difficult discussions concerning the sacrament of
Holy Orders. First of all, the legates submitted ten articles
to the theologians for consideration on September i8th, 1562 ;
these contained the views of the religious innovators upon
the subject ; the discussions were to begin on September
23rd.- Before that, however, the French and Imperial
envoys, in accordance with an agreement brought about by
the Bishop of Fiinfkirchen, demanded that the further treatment
of dogma should be postponed until the arrival of the
French prelates, and only matters of reform dealt with in
the next Session. This the legates refused,^ and in the course
of a very excited debate, the Bishop of Fiinfkirchen and the
French envoy demanded that the Imperial reform libellum
should be laid before the Council. The legates refused to
comply with this request as weU. In the meantime, however,
they had informed Borromeo, on September 24th, that they
were inclined to submit the libellum, with the omission of all
articles which encroached upon the authority of the Pope,
or which, by their very nature, must be excluded ; at the
^ See SiCKEL, Konzil, 390.
2 See Raynaldus, 1562, n. 89 ; Le Plat, V., 508 ; Theiner, II.,
133; Pallavicini, 18, 12, I.
3 C/. MusoTTi, 25 seq. ; Baguenault de Puchesse, 72;
SiCKEL, Konzil, 387 ; Steinherz, III., 130 ; Susta, III., 5,
353 ^^1-> 3.nd especially Helle, 37 seq., where there is a further
bibliography.
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