Altars as tombs, yet every altar sanctified to Mary and all Saints; temples as basilicas

Rome's doctors will not consecrate an altar to a Saint as an altar, but they will as a tomb.

In practice every altar is sanctified to God and also to the Virgin and all the Saints.

Temples are not built for Saints precisely as temples, yet they are raised and dedicated as sacred houses and basilicas where Saints are ritually honored and invoked.

Latin

VI. Similiter, quamvis altaria, sub altarium ratione, ex Scholae Romanae doctrina, Sanctis proprie consecranda non sint, ostendimus tamen illius doctores existimare quod possint, sub ratione saltem tumuli, illis consecrari: imo, juxta praxin Ecclesiae Romanae, altaria singula sanctificari, non solum in honorem Dei, sed etiam in honorem Beatae Virginis, & omnium Sanctorum: ac eodem modo templa, ex illius Ecclesiae sententia atque usu, non praecise qua talia Sanctis esse construenda; sed tamen illis extrui & dicari posse ac debere, sub ratione aedium sacrarum, & Basilicarum, in quibus solemniter, & variis ritibus colantur, atque invocentur.

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)
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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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