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extreme to the other are natural to the French character.
In this change on the part of Cardinal Guise from strong
opposition to becoming the supporter of the Pope, personal
reasons had contributed no less than objective ones. Pius
IV. had previously made him the offer of appointing him
perpetual legate in France after the close of the Council
and of entrusting him with full powers, as, for example, the
granting of the chalice to the laity, things which to an
ambitious man, where very tempting. While on the one
hand, the prospect of a great and honourable activity in his
own country attracted the Cardinal, on the other hand he
shrank from plunging his beloved France, already so sorely
tried, into the confusion of a schism. ^ His startling change
of front was at the same time made easier for him by the
amicable settlement arrived at with the Spanish envoy,
which was acceptable to the French court.
In the General Congregation of July 14th an agreement
had been come to by almost all the fathers with regard to the
whole of the decrees. Only the Spanish bishops, with the
exception of the Bishop of Lerida, were still opposed to the
wording of the sixth canon, but this difficulty was overcome
by the skilful intervention of Morone. The legate appealed to
Count di Luna, who succeeded in overcoming the opposition
of his countrymen, and the same night communicated the
fact to Morone.^
On the morning of July 15th, the four legates. Cardinals
Guise and Madruzzo, three patriarchs, twenty-five arch-
bishops, a hundred and ninety-three bishops, three abbots,
seven generals of orders, three doctors of law, a hundred
and thirty theologians, six procurators of bishops who were
absent, and twelve envoys, assembled in the Cathedral of
Trent for the XXIIIrd Session, the seventh under Pius IV."*
iSee SxEiNHERZ, III., 379 seq. ; Susta, IV., 102 seq., 121 seq.,
and the sources there cited.
2 See SiCKEL, Konzil 562 ; Susta, IV., 120, 127.
3 See Pallavicini, 21, 11, 7 ; §usta, IV., 124.
* C/. Theiner, II., 310-2 ; Raynaldus, 1563, n. 125-7 ; Becca-
DELLi, XL, 93 seqq. ; Psalmaeus, 866 seq. ; Pallavicini, 21, 12.
^