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The Age of the Reformation

CHAPTER I
790/1552

This was done by Pius IV in the bull Benedictus Deus.

[Sidenote: January 26, 1564] Pius also caused to be prepared a symbol known as the Tridentine Profession of Faith which was made binding on all priests.

Save that it was slightly enlarged in 1877 by the pronouncement on Papal Infallibility, it stands to the present day.
[Sidenote: Reception of decrees] The complete triumph of the papal claims was offset by the cool reception which the decrees received in Catholic Europe.

Only the Italian states, Poland, Portugal and Savoy unreservedly recognized the authority of all of them.

Philip II, bigot as he was, preferred to make his own rules for his clergy and recognized the laws of Trent with the proviso "saving the royal rights." France sanctioned only the dogmatic, not the practical decrees.


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