The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Council of Trent

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-1.10: The Council of Trent abolished questors of alms on 16 July 1562 and decreed on 4 December 1563 that all evil gains in obtaining indulgences be wholly abolished. Pius V's constitution Etsi dominici gregis of 8 February 1567 revoked indulgences carrying a questing faculty, including those for St. Peter's, and forbade questing and the appointment of questors without papal license.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 407 16 July 1562. Council of Trent: Council of Trent, Session 21, Decree on Reformation, chapter 9 (abolition of questors of alms)
  • Exhibit 408 4 December 1563. Council of Trent: Council of Trent, Session 25, Decree concerning indulgences