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Exhibit 409

Constitution Etsi dominici gregis (revocation of indulgences carrying a questing faculty; prohibition of questing and appointment of questors)

Exhibit 409 ยท Papal constitution

Constitution Etsi dominici gregis (revocation of indulgences carrying a questing faculty; prohibition of questing and appointment of questors)

multi quaestores ex eisdem indulgentiis lucrum temporalem tantum quaerentes

Records many complaints that questors sought temporal gain from indulgences granted to the fabric of St. Peter's and to other hospitals and churches. Revokes, cancels and annuls all indulgences, including perpetual ones, for the fabric of St. Peter's and other named and unnamed institutions that carry a questing faculty, and forbids anyone, of any rank, to quest or appoint questors without special papal licence. Bullarium Romanum, Taurinensis ed., vol. 7, pp. 535-537, constitution XLV. The brief's title 'Quam plenum' is a different constitution; see Quam plenum exhibit.

Source
Pope Pius V
Date
8 February 1567
Quoted from
Bullarium Romanum (Taurinensis) vol. 7, p. 535, sec. 1 (checked against page image)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/bullarumdiplomat07cath
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

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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.