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KEY
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Birthday
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Publication
{ } Related Interest
17 CIC
1917 Code
83 CIC
1983 Code
AAS
Acta Apostolicae Sedis
ASS
Acta Sanctae Sedis
Comm
Communicationes
CIC Font
Gasparri's Fontes
of the 1917 Code
CLD
Canon Law Digest
DDC
Dict. de Droit Canonique
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Canon
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What happened in Canon Law today?
A Canonist's Calendar
by Dr. Edward Peters
Citations are to sources for my assertions where possible, or to related
information where available. Occasionally, dates are disputed; I selected
those that seemed most supported. Bracketed
{ } dates are to related events. Red Letter Days
mark feasts of lawyer-saints according to the current Roman Calendar. This
Canonical Calendar is a work-in-progress; those noting
errors or who wish to supply omissions are
earnestly invited to email the Webmaster. See
KEY to the left for a list of abbreviations and symbols.
Credits:
Some non-attributed dates are from Stickler's Historia
{Jan 31} and/or Van Hove's Prolegomena.
Most photos of cardinals are from Salvatore Miranda's The
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Some Jesuit photos courtesy of Midwest
Jesuit Archives. Many outside links are to New
Advent's original Catholic Encyclopedia.
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St. Raymond of Peñafort
"The King of Heaven supplies the means."
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June
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1
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1537:
Pope Paul III issues con. Altitudo, one of three papal
pronouncements on matrimonial law for converts directly incorporated into
the 1917 Code. 1917 CIC Doc.
VI. {Jan 25, Aug 2}
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2
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1582:
& Roman
Correctors’ version of
Gratian’s
Concordia is released.
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3
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1430:
& William
of Lyndwood, England’s foremost medieval canonist, completes his gloss on
the Provinciale.
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4
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1457:
& John of
Turrecrementa, Franciscan cardinal, completes his 3-vol. Commentary on
Gratian.
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7
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1230: Pope Gregory IX makes the first known
reference to "third orders", here, Franciscan. {Aug 17}
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8
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1215:
U Sicard of Crémone, French canonist,
theologian, liturgist, historian DDC 7: 1008-1011.
1725:
Pope Benedict XIII restricts the ability of laity to claim
ecclesiastical immunities.
1945: Pope Pius XII reorganizes the course of studies at
the
Roman Rota.
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9
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1931:
U
Dominicum Prümmer, op, German moral theologian
and commentator on Pio-Benedictine law (eg, Manuale Iuris Canonici),
at age 65. {Jan 23}
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D. Prümmer, op
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10
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1972: Pope Paul VI establishes the Pontifical Commission
for the Revision of Oriental Canon Law.
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12
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1957: Pope Pius XII, in Cleri sanctitati,
codifies Eastern canon law on persons. AAS 49: 433-603.
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14
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1559:
The Holy Office mitigates severe sanctions attached to the very first
Index of Forbidden Books,
published earlier the same year.
1966: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
confirms abrogation of the
Index of Forbidden Books. AAS 58-445; CLD 6: 814-815. {Nov 15}
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17
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1669:
Pope Clement IX, in Solicitudo, forbids religious from engaging
in business enterprises. CIC Font 1: 465-467.
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18
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1529: Convocation of the extraordinary legatine
tribunal, Cdls Campeggio & Wolsey presiding, at Blackfriars’ to hear the
marriage case of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, without result. {July
11}
1704: Henry Prescott of Trinity College, Dublin,
at home sick in his bed, records that he consoles himself by reading
Durandus' De Consecracione.
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21
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1479:
U
Andreas de Barbatia, lay canon and civil
lawyer, taught at Bologna, at about age 79.
1932: The Spanish Rota is suppressed due to the Spanish
Civil War. Cf. AAS 39 (1947) 156.
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22
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Sts. Thomas More & John Fisher
Common Lawyer & Bishop, Martyrs
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24
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1349:
U Peter
Bertrand, French professor of canon law, later cardinal, at about age 70.
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26
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1905:
& Pope St. Pius X congratulates Franciscus Wernz,
sj, on the publication of his Ius Decretalium, in 7 vols, the last
great commentary on decretal law.
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28
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1988: John Paul II, in ap. con.
Pastor Bonus, issues current norms on the reorganization of the Roman
Curia. Cf 1983 CIC 360-361. {Jan 22}
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29
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1748:
Pope
Benedict XIV, in enc. Magnae Nobis, stresses the importance of
raising children in mixed marriages as Catholics. CIC Font 2: 146-151.
1908:
Pope St. Pius X, in ap. con. Sapienti consilio, reestablishes
the
Roman Rota (and the Apostolic Signatura, etc.), suppressed since the
Italian Revolution some 40 years earlier. ASS 41 (1908) 425-461.
1959: Pope Bl. John XXIII, in enc.
Ad Petri Cathedram,
formally announces his plans to convoke the Second Vatican Council and to
reform the Code of Canon Law. AAS
51 (1959) 497-531. {Jan 25}
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30
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1741:
Pope Benedict XIV, in Quanta cura, forbids, inter alia,
trafficking in Mass stipends. CIC Font. 1: 682-683.
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