SUMMAGA. - A Benedictine abbey in the diocese of Concordia, 3 km distant from it; the Latin name *Summa aqua* is connected with the marshy terrain, reclaimed and made habitable by the monks.
Probably founded between the 9th and 10th centuries, it had jurisdiction over several towns and parishes; converted into a commendam in 1430, the commendatory cardinal Carlo Rezzonico, later Pope Clement XIII, restored the church in 1740; with
which is caused Protestantism. The most serious consequences are: 1) the loss of the sense of solidarity of men in Adam and in Christ; 2) the absolute authority of civil power, which does not respect the rights of the family and does not adhere to the fidelity of freely contracted international treaties. To the first error the Supreme Pontiff opposes the example of the Church in its missionary activity, open to the values of all civilizations; to the second he recalls the inviolable rights of the family and the obligation of conscience founded on the very nature of man. This is followed by an exhortation to the collaboration of the laity in the apostolate, which begins in the Christian family, extends to the defense of Christian principles in civil society (especially the rights of the Church to the education of youth) and into the political sphere for effective pacifying action. The encyclical ends with a supreme appeal for common collaboration to alleviate the anguish of war where it has already begun and to avert it in other parts of the world.