Clement XIV

CLEMENT XIV. Cum a Deo, 22 Dec. 1769: beginning of the pontificate.

PIUS VI. Magna atque innumerabilia, 28 Feb. 1782: for those who perform good works from the 4th Sunday of Lent to Palm Sunday. — Quae causa, 24 Nov. 1792: for the dioceses of the Papal State: aid from God.

PIUS VIII. In supremi, 18 June 1829: beginning of the pontificate.

GREGORY XVI. Plura post susceptam, 2 Dec. 1832: beginning of the pontificate.

PIUS IX. Arcano divinae Providentiae, 20 Nov. 1846: beginning of the pontificate. — Ex aliis Nostris, 21 Nov. 1851: to implore divine clemency. — Nemo certe ignorat, 11 Apr. 1869: Vatican Council. For the General Jubilee of 1850, not carried out due to the political situation, Pius IX granted the indulgence «in forma iubilaei».

LEO XIII. Pontifices Maximi, 15 Feb. 1879: first year of the pontificate. — Militans Iesu Christi, 12 Mar. 1881: calamities of the Church and the Apostolic See. — Quod auctoritate, 22 Dec. 1885: practice of Christian virtues. — Magni commemoratio, 8 Jan. 1896: for France: 14th centenary of the Baptism of Clovis. — Monumenta pietatis, 1 July 1896: Eucharistic Congress of Orvieto.

PIUS X. Ad diem illum, 2 Feb. 1904: 50th anniversary of the proclamation of the Immaculate Conception; Universis Christi fidelibus, 8 Mar. 1913: Constantinian centenary.

PIUS XI. Auspicantibus nobis, 6 Jan. 1929: his sacerdotal jubilee — Quod nuper, 6 Jan. 1933: 19th centenary of the Redemption of mankind. Solemn, with the opening of the Holy Door. — Vedi tavv. XLIX-L.

BIBL.: The constitutions or papal letters cited in the list are found: 1st) in the Bullarum, diplomatum et privilegiorum sanctorum Romanorum Pontificum Taurinensis editio edited by A. Tommasetti and a group of Roman theologians and canonists, 24 vols., Turin 1857–72 (goes up to 1740); see also the ed. of C. Coquelines, Bullarum, privilegiorum ac diplomatum RR. Pontificum, amplissima collectio, 14 vols., Rome 1739–62; 2nd) in the two editions of the Bullarii Romani continuatio, 19 vols., Rome 1835–57, from Clement XIII to Gregory XVI; 10 vols., Prato 1843–67, from Benedict XIV to Pius VIII; 3rd) in Acta Gregorii papae XVI, 4 vols., Rome 1901–1904; 4th) in Pii IX Pont. Max. Acta... quae ad Ecclesiam universam spectant, 7 vols., ibid. 1854–78; 5th) in Leonis XIII Pont. Max. Acta, 23 vols., ibid. 1881–1905; 6th) in Pii X Pont. Max. Acta, 5 vols., ibid. 1905–14; 7th) in AAS, 3 (1913), pp. 89–93; 21 (1929), pp. 5–11; 25 (1933), pp. 1–10. Cf. also Theodorus a Spiritu Sancto, Tractatus Historico Theologicus de Iubilaeo, Rome 1750, pp. 93–101; G. Moroni, s. V. in Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica, XXXI, pp. 126–31. For the juridical questions relating to extraordinary Jubilees prior to current canon law, cf. F. L. Ferraris, Iubilaeum, in Prompta bibliotheca canonica, iuridica, moralis, theologica, ed. by the Cassinese monks, IV, Montecassino 1848, pp. 539–55, and Indulgentia, ibid., p. 280.

A. Pietro Frutaz

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“CLEMENTE XIV.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), p. 423. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/clemente-xiv.