Popular books still say temples and altars are dedicated to Mary without scruple—Alexis de Salo and the Liège Manual
Popular Roman books freely say temples and altars are consecrated to Mary and the Saints.
Alexis de Salo’s Method and the Liège Sodality Manual put that praxis in print—altars first to God, yet in Mary’s honor and memory.
Latin
XVIII. Verum in usu communi, & in libris popularibus, qui plebis Romanae manibus teruntur, absque scrupulo dicuntur templa Sanctis, ac praesertim Beatae Mariae Virgini dicari atque consecrari. Sic in vulgari libello cui titulus est, Methodus colendae & honorandae Virginis Mariae, cujusque author est Alexis de Salo Capucinus caput octavum hisce verbis incipit: Ecclesia quae semper Spiritu Sancto dicitur ab omni tempore templa & Altaria erexit & consecravit Matri Dei. Et postea vota consecrare. Et similiter in Manuali Sodalitatis impresso Leodii An. 1624. leguntur haec verba pagina 110. Ipsam colimus atque veneramur templis, oratoriis & altaribus, erectis quidem primo Deo, Sed in honorem & memoriam carissimae ipsius matris.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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