There is nothing she cannot obtain from him." CONVOCATION OF THE COUNCIL.

Plainly, the principle now avowed by the papacy must bring it into collision even with governments which had heretofore maintained amicable relations with it.

Great dissatisfaction was manifested by Russia, and the incidents that ensued drew forth from his Holiness an allocution (November, 1866) condemnatory of the course of that government.

To this, Russia replied, by declaring the Concordat of 1867 abrogated.
Undeterred by the result of the battle of Sadowa (July, 1866), though it was plain that the political condition of Europe was now profoundly affected, and especially the relations of the papacy, the pope delivered an allocution (June 27, 1867), confirming the Encyclical and Syllabus.
He announced his intention of convoking an Oecumenical Council.
Accordingly, as we have already mentioned, in the following year (June 29, 1868), a bull was issued convoking that Council.

Misunderstandings, however, had now sprung up with Austria.