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Exhibit 407

Council of Trent, Session 21, Decree on Reformation, chapter 9 (abolition of questors of alms)

Exhibit 407 ยท Conciliar decree

Council of Trent, Session 21, Decree on Reformation, chapter 9 (abolition of questors of alms)

their name and use be henceforth utterly abolished

Abolishes the name and use of questors of alms throughout Christendom and orders indulgences published by the ordinaries, aided by two chapter members who collect alms without remuneration. Waterworth translation (London: Dolman, 1848), via Hanover Historical Texts Project.

Source
Council of Trent
Date
16 July 1562
Quoted from
Session 21, Decree of reformation, ch. 9 (Waterworth 1848)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://history.hanover.edu/texts/trent/ct21.html
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding REL-1.10
Primary record 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.