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disadvantage, for when 18 October fell on a Sunday -- as in 1243 and 1248 -- it had the effect of depriving the faithful of their mass. Priests could not be in two places at once, in their parish churches and at the bishop's synod. In 1242 the archdeacon of Barcelona obeyed instructions to the letter, with the result that the diocesan clergy were away from their parishes at the weekend: (148) an arrangement which missed the point stressed in the Summa -- that the people should not lack pastoral care and the sacraments. (149) The synod was planned to last three days, according to the provincial formulary which seems to belong to this period ; (150) and since, as the Lérida statutes testify, there was a tendency for clerics to make something of a holiday of it, (151) John of Abbeville's directive was normally modified in order to avoid such a clash. (152) The pastoral consequences of holding the provincial council on a Sunday were far less serious, and with one exception -- the council of January 1244 or 1245 (153) -- Pedro de Albalat adhered to the legate's [82] ruling until the year 1247. The council too was a three-day affair, and in accordance with the provincial formulary the conciliar statutes were issued on either the Monday or the Tuesday after Jubilate Sunday (154) down to 1247, when for entirely practical reasons, the customary date was shifted back six weeks. Three weeks after Easter was also the date of the Tarragona fair, and the cathedral city simply lacked sufficient accommodation to cope with both events at the same time. So the council was moved. (155) During the last four years of his life Pedro's provincial councils seem to have been less concerned with the issue of reform upon which his earlier assemblies had concentrated. At least no such constitution has survived from these years. (156) But this apparent interruption does not imply any cooling of enthusiasm or hardening of the arteries. Quite the contrary, it is an indication of Pedro's achievement. By 1247-8 the inheritance which he had received from John of Abbeville could be passed on with confidence to the new trustees, the bishops of the province, whose own testing time came in July 1251 when the death of their master exposed them to an entirely different climate. That climate and their performance are considered in the following chapter. 1. VL, XIX, 259. 2. Argáiz, Soledad laureada, II, fo. 53 vb. 3. Below, p. 161. 4. Beer, Handschriften, 69. Notes for Chapter 4 5. Cf. VL, XX, 32 ff.; Arco, El arzobispo don Antonio Agustín. 6. Tejada, Colección, III, 349 ff.; VI, 29 ff., in addition to the works of Marca, Aguirre and Villanuño. Cf. also Fita's perceptive article in BRAH, XL, correcting discrepancies in the dating of the councils of 1248-50. 7. VL, I, 84-5. Cf. ibid. X, 195-213; XX, 72-6. Neither Finke's Konzilienstudien nor Valls i Taberner's article in AST, XI, does more than provide a résumé of Tejada. 8. Tejada, VI, 30: De constitutionibus domini Sabinensis servandis. 9. Frizon, Gallia Purpurata, 213. 10. He was auditor of the charges against the bishop of Vich in 1232, and of disputes between the archbishop of Toledo and the Order of Santiago, and between the bishop of Barcelona and the
monastery of San Cugat del Vallés: above, p. 43; Lomax, Hispania, XIX, 334-5; Ríus Serra, Cartulario de San Cugat, III, 450. 11. Cf. H. R. Trevor-Roper, Religion, the Reformation and Social Change (London, 1967),104-13. 12. Ventura Subirats, BRABL, XXVIII, 88. 13. VL, XI, 72; Reg. Hon. III, 1958, 2466-7(MDH, 215,286-7). 14. VL, loc. cit. 15. AC Seo de Urgel, d.s.n., publ.. Linehan, AEM, forthcoming. 16. AC Seo de Urgel, d.s.n., several extracts published in Linehan, loc. cit. 17. Ibid.: 'Et finto Te Deum Laudamus dicta fuit oratio per sacristam Ilerdensem'; 'Gombaldus de Acuta. . . dixit quod fama publica est in ecclesia Urgellensi quod sacrista [Urgellensis] fecit interfeci unam mulam et alteram vulneran magistni P. deAlbalato.' 18. AC Lérida, caj. 202, no. 569: Cum a nobis, 23 Dec. 1230. 19. AC Seo de Urgel, d.s.n., publ. Linehan, AEM, loc. cit. The letter is dated Roma in crastina Cinerum. It is clear from the context that it must belong either to 1231 or 1232; and the morrow of Ash Wednesday (6 Feb.) 1231 maybe preferred, since on the corresponding day in 1232 (25 Feb.) the Curia was not at Rome. Cf. Potthast, I, 743, 762 (ad dies 29 Jan.-7 Feb. 1231; 21-8 Feb. 1232). 20. AC Vich, 37-1-17: Ex parte. 21. Potthast, 8659. 22. Vida del Illmo SrD. Felix Amat, appendix, 162-3. 23. Though Finistres in the eighteenth century had shown that Pedro was not a member of the Order, Villanueva thought it necessary to disprove what he took to be the contrary view of 'los historiadores de aquella casa'; and in 1967 Burns referred to him as 'a Cistercian monk': Historia de Poblet, II, 242; VL, XVI, 135; Crusader Kingdom of Valencia, I, 215. 24. ES, XLVII, 22-5. 25. Reg. Greg. IX, 1888 (April 1234); 2838 (Nov. 1235); Beer, Handschriften, 68, n. 2. For Pedro as apostolic visitor of exempt monasteries in the early 1230s, see Tobella and Mundó, Analecta Montserratensia, X, 427 ff. 26. VL, XVI, 294-6, describing him as 'hominem utique cui aetatis maturitas, morum gravitas et competens quinnimo eminens litterarum scientia suifragatur'. 27. Ibid.115; J. Lladonosa Pujol, 'Proyección urbana de Lérida durante el reinado de Alfonso el Casto', VII. CHCA, II(1962), 200-2. 28. AC Lérida, caj. 218: Constitutiones Ecclesie Ilerdensis, fos. 2v-5r (another copy in AC Seo de Urgel, cod. 2119, fos. 45v-9r), at fos. 3r, 4V. This refers to the 'generalem ordinationem concernentem fundamentum et universum statum Ecclesie Illerdensis tam in capite quam in membriis', which Sáinz de Baranda failed to locate (ES, XLVII, 24), but which was mentioned by Villanueva (VL, XVI, 136). 29. Ibid.fo.4v. 30. Ibid. fos. 3v-4r: 'Statuimus eciam quod dimidia porcio uni magistro scolarum perpetuo concedatur qui in grammatica regat et doceat et cuius deffectum non modicum imminere nunc usque inventum est studere volentibus detrimentum.' 31. VL, XIX, 180; Junyent, AST, XXIII, 150.
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