Transumpt of the privileges of the Roman Confraternity of the Body of Christ for the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in Lviv

[In the upper border, an illumination: miniatures of St. Peter, St. Paul, the IHS monogram / the Veil of St. Veronica / the Sacred Heart, and floral motifs] IN THE NAME OF CHRIST, AMEN. WE, ALEXANDER, by the mercy of God Bishop of Ostia, called Cardinal Farnese, Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, PROTECTOR of the pious and universal Confraternity of the Most Holy Body of Our Lord JESUS CHRIST, erected and established in the church of the house of the Most Holy MARY sopra Minerva in ROME, of the Order of Preachers, and SCYPIO Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem, CAMILLO Caetani and VIRGILIO Crescenzi, Roman patrician, administrators of the same Confraternity, to ALL and singular who shall see, read, and hear this public document of transumpt, eternal greeting in the Lord. We bear witness and certify that the Most Holy Father in CHRIST and our Lord, Lord GREGORY, by divine providence the Thirteenth Pope, desiring to endow the confreres of the same Confraternity with the gifts of indulgences and graces, granted them a certain letter, the wording of which follows word for word and is as follows: GREGORY, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, for a perpetual remembrance of the matter. The eternal Shepherd, who, in order to liberate the human race from the hands of that enemy, did not hesitate to offer Himself on the altar of the CROSS and to shed His most precious blood for the remission of our sins, and during the Last Supper, which He ate while celebrating the Passover with His disciples, in memory of such a great benefit, by divine and incomprehensible decree, set before them His body as food and His blood as drink, saying: "Do this, as often as you do it, in remembrance of me," we, though unworthy, holding the vicariate on earth and recalling in deep meditation that such is the loftiness and perfection of that most holy SACRAMENT that it can never be fully honored, never worthily (such is our frailty) adored, we cannot in any way refrain from inviting Christ's faithful, whom we see putting forth every effort and applying every diligence so that the Body of CHRIST of this kind may be most reverently reserved in churches, carried in processions, and brought to the sick, and piously received and frequently visited by Christ's faithful, to more zealously fulfill those promises, namely by indulgences and the remission of sins. So that those whose care has been entrusted to us, by recalling the memory of such a great benefit most often and giving thanks to its Founder with sincere devotion, may more easily achieve through such exercises what they cannot do by themselves. To the fulfillment of which we are even more encouraged when we recognize that for this reason, of his own accord (motu proprio), Pope URBAN the Fourth of blessed memory, our predecessor, proclaimed the perpetual feast of that Most Holy Body of CHRIST and encouraged those same faithful of Christ to celebrate it by the granting of indulgences. DESIRING, therefore, that the pious Confraternity of Christ's faithful under the invocation of the same Body of CHRIST, legally erected in the church of the house of the Most Holy Mary sopra Minerva of the Order of Preachers and approved and strengthened by Pope PAUL the Third of pious memory, also our predecessor, from which – as we have heard – abundant fruits have resulted, be adorned with special graces and favors, trusting in the mercy of almighty God and the authority of His holy Apostles Peter and Paul, to all and singular of Christ's faithful of both sexes entering the aforementioned Confraternity, who at the time of their entry, and to those of the confreres who on the day of the feast of the Body of CHRIST or within its octave, sincerely contrite, confess their sins and receive the same SACRAMENT, and likewise to those same confreres, also contrite and confessed, at the moment of their death, we mercifully in the Lord grant and bestow a plenary indulgence and remission of all their sins. FURTHERMORE, to those same confreres of both sexes residing outside the City [Rome], who on the days on which stations are appointed in the churches in the CITY and outside it, visit the altar or place where the SACRAMENT is reserved and, reciting the Lord's Prayer and the Angelic Salutation seven times, pray for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and for the eradication of heresy and infidels, [we grant] the same indulgences that they would obtain if they had visited that church in the CITY and outside it on that day where that station takes place. MOREOVER, to those same confreres visiting such an altar or place and praying as above every Friday [we remit] one hundred days. And every day on Maundy Thursday to those same confreres sincerely contrite and confessed – seven years and as many quadragenes. AGAIN, to those same confreres who piously receive the EUCHARIST at His altar on the third Sunday of every month and on Thursday on the Lord's Supper [Maundy Thursday] – ten years and as many quadragenes. FURTHER, to the same confreres as well as to other Christ's faithful of both sexes accompanying the aforementioned SACRAMENT when it is carried to the sick, and to those who, being hindered from this, kneel at the sound of the small bell and recite the Lord's Prayer and the Angelic Salutation once and pray for the sick – as often as they do this, one hundred days. And to those confreres who will accompany the SACRAMENT itself in the procession customarily held after High Mass on that third Sunday – one hundred days. AND LIKEWISE to those confreres sincerely contrite and confessed who visit the Lord's Sepulcher customarily erected on Maundy Thursday in the aforementioned church of the Most Holy Mary, we remit seven years and as many quadragenes from the penances imposed on them or otherwise in any way due. FINALLY, because it would be difficult to designate a specific place everywhere where the SACRAMENT is to be deposited, therefore let the SACRAMENT itself be deposited and placed either in the middle of the main altar or in another more convenient place according to the discretion of the local ordinary – if the church in which the Confraternity performs services is secular; if, however, it is religious, according to the discretion of the superior of that same church. AND SO THAT the veneration of this Most Holy SACRAMENT may be in greater respect, the more widely it spreads to different parts of the world, we GRANT to the same Confraternity, drawing up a letter about this with power lasting forever, that it may freely communicate the aforementioned graces and indulgences (except those which are gained by reason of the ROMAN stations) to other confraternities of the Most Holy SACRAMENT erected and to be erected outside the CITY by means of transumpts signed by the hand of at least one of the ministers appointed for this purpose, who possesses priestly ordination. Notwithstanding the above and apostolic, as well as particular or general constitutions issued in provincial and synodal councils, and all others to the contrary. WE WISH, however, that if any other indulgence has been granted to the aforementioned Confraternity by Us forever or for a time not yet expired, this one shall have no power or meaning at all. IT IS NOT PERMITTED, therefore, for any man to violate the charter of this our grant, remission, the last expressed permission and will, or to oppose it with rash boldness. If, however, anyone should dare to attempt this, let him know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and His holy Apostles Peter and Paul. Given in Rome at Saint Mark's, in the year of the Lord's Incarnation one thousand five hundred and seventy-three, on the eighth day before the Ides of August [August 6, 1573], in the second year of our pontificate. WHICH apostolic letter included and mentioned above, intact and whole, free from any defect and suspicion, we have seen, read, held, and diligently examined, and we have ordered it to be written in this form of public transumpt by the undersigned secretary of our aforementioned Confraternity, at the earnest request of the most enlightened and most reverend lord Archbishop of Lviv, envoy of the most serene King of Poland, for the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament erected in the metropolitan church in the city of Lviv, provided that a similar grace has not been previously granted there to another [confraternity] by our Confraternity. To which Confraternity and its confreres we, the protector and administrators mentioned above, representing our entire Confraternity, by this present public transumpt grant freely and for the love of God the graces and indulgences granted to us and our Confraternity by the letter inserted above (except those which are gained by reason of the ROMAN stations). DESIRING also and ordaining that the same faith be attributed to this present transumpt as would be attributed to the original letter included above, if it were presented or shown. IN FAITH and testimony of all and singular of which matters above, we have ordered this letter, that is, this present public document of transumpt, to be drawn up, and to be signed and proclaimed by the same secretary, and we have also ordered and caused it to be strengthened by the affixing of our seal. Given in Rome in the temple of the Most Holy Mary sopra Minerva, at our assembly, in the year from the Nativity of our Lord JESUS CHRIST one thousand five hundred and eighty-six, in the fourteenth indiction, on the fifteenth day of the month of July, in the second year of the pontificate of the most holy Father in Christ and our Lord, Lord SIXTUS, by divine providence the Fifth Pope. In the presence of the noble men Marcello Odeschi and John Baptist Gilio, Roman citizens. [Signatures:] Scypio Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem, administrator Camillo Caetani, administrator [Notarial / secretary's note on the left:] I, Jerome [...] secretary have signed [...] [In the lower left corner a compass rose / notarial monogram with the letters N P] [Chancery note on the right:] In the year of the Lord 1722, on the 20th of October. Presented during the general visitation, read, and noted in the acts of the visitation. Jan Feliks Szaniawski, Bishop [of Chełm? / of Lviv? / coadjutor?] [In the lower right corner on the plica:] For the city of Lviv. [Traces of the seal cord in the plica - preserved fragments of hemp / silk cord]. [Verso:] [Archival and registration notes, including:] 1633 [...] Confraternity of the Body of God [...] [Signature pasted on a piece of paper:] L. IV / 5.

[W górnym obramowaniu iluminacja: miniatury św. Piotra, św. Pawła, monogram IHS / Chusta św. Weroniki / Serce Jezusowe oraz motywy florystyczne] IN CHRISTI NOMINE AMEN NOS ALEXANDER miseratione divina Episcopus Hostiensis Cardinalis Farnesius nuncupatus S.R.E. Vicecancellarius, Piae, & Vniversalis Confraternitatis Sacratissimi Corporis Domini Nostri IESV CHRISTI in Ecclesia Domus Beata MARIAE supra Minervam de VRBE, Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum erectae, & institutae PROTECTOR, ac SCIPIO Gonzaga Patriarcha Hierosolymitanus, CAMILLVS Caetanus, et VIRGILIVS Crescentius Patritius Romanus ipsius Confraternitatis Administratores, VNIVERSIS & singulis praesens publicum Transumpti Instrumentum visuris, lecturis, pariter, & audituris, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Fidem facimus, & attestamur, qualiter Sanctissimus in CHRISTO Pater, & Dominus noster, Dominus GREGORIVS, divina providentia Papa Decimus tertius, Volens eiusdem Confraternitatis Confratres, Indulgentiarum, & gratiarum muneribus prosequi, quasdam eis concessit literas, quarum tenor de verbo ad verbum sequitur, & est talis. GREGORIVS Episcopus servus servorum Dei, ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Pastoris aeterni, qui ut humanum genus ab illius inimici manibus liberaret, in Ara CRVCIS immolari, & in peccatorum nostrorum remissionem, pretiosissimum sanguinem suum effundere non dubitavit, ac in ultima coena, quam cum discipulis suis PASCHA celebrans manducavit, in tanti beneficii memoriam, eis carnem suam in cibum, & sanguinem suum in potum, divina & incomprehensibili ordinatione exhibuit, dicens: Haec quotiescumque feceritis, in mei memoriam facietis, vices licet immeriti gerentes in terris, & profunda meditatione recolentes, eam esse huius sacrosancti SACRAMENTI sublimitatem, & excellentiam, ut nonnunquam satis plene coli, nunquam digne (qua nostra est imbecillitas) adorari valeat, facere nullo modo possumus, quin Christifideles, quos omnem operam impendere, omnemque diligentiam adhibere conspicimus, ut CHRISTI Corpus huiusmodi honorificentissime in Ecclesiis custodiatur, & in processionibus deducatur, ac ad infirmos deferatur, pieque a Christifidelibus suscipiatur, & frequentetur, ad promissorum ferventius exercitium indulgentiis videlicet, & peccatorum remissionibus crebro invitemus. Vt ij quorum gubernium nobis est commissum, tanti beneficii memoriam saepissime recolentes, illiusque institutoris gratias sinceris agentes affectibus, quod ex seipsis agere non possunt, per huiusmodi exercitia facilius consequantur. Ad quod peragendum etiam nos ipsos magis incitat, dum agnoscimus hac ratione per motum proprium felicis recordationis VRBANVM Papam Quartum praedecessorem nostrum perpetuam Sanctissimi Corporis CHRISTI huiusmodi festivitatem indixisse, & ad illius celebrationem eosdem Christifideles Indulgentiarum concessione invitasse. CVPIENTES itaque piam Christifidelium Confraternitatem sub invocatione eiusdem Corporis CHRISTI in Ecclesia Domus Beatae Mariae supra Minervam, Ordinis Praedicatorum rite institutam, & a pia memoria PAVLO Papa Tertio, etiam praedecessore nostro approbatam, & confirmatam, ex qua sicut accepimus, uberes fructus provenerunt, specialibus favoribus, & gratiis exornari, de omnipotentis Dei misericordia, ac beatorum Petri & Pauli Apostolorum eius auctoritate confisi, Omnibus, & singulis utriusque sexus Christifidelibus dictam Confraternitatem intrantibus, qui tempore ingressus sui, ac ijs ex Confratribus, qui in die festo Corporis CHRISTI, aut eius octava, vere paenitentes peccata sua confessi fuerint, & SACRAMENTVM huiusmodi sumpserint, & similiter eisdem Confratribus, etiam paenitentibus, & confessis, in ipsorum mortis articulo, plenariam omnium peccatorum suorum indulgentiam, & remissionem, misericorditer in Domino concedimus, & elargimur. PRAETEREA eisdem Confratribus utriusque sexus extra Vrbem existentibus, qui in diebus, in quibus stationes in Ecclesiis in VRBE, & extra illam existentibus, habentur, Altare seu locum, in quo SACRAMENTVM custoditur visitaverint, & septies orationem Dominicam, & Salutationem Angelicam recitantes, pro exaltatione fidei Catholicae, & extirpatione haeresum, & infidelium oraverint, easdem Indulgentias, quas consequerentur, si ea die illam Ecclesiam in VRBE & extra eam visitarent, in qua ipsa statio habetur. INSVPER eisdem Confratribus huiusmodi Altare seu locum visitantibus, & ut supra orantibus, sexta quaque feria, centum dies. Singula vero die in Coena Domini eisdem Confratribus vere paenitentibus, & confessis, septem annos, & totidem Quadragenas. RVRSVS eisdem Confratribus qui ad Altare ipsius, in tertia Dominica cuiuslibet mensis, & in feria quinta in Coena Domini, EVCHARISTIAM pie susceperint, decem annos & totidem Quadragenas. VLTERIVS tam ipsis Confratribus, quam alijs Christifidelibus utriusque sexus dictum SACRAMENTVM dum ad aegrotos defertur associantibus, & ijs qui id facere impediti, ad sonum parvae campanae genuflexi semel orationem Dominicam, & Salutationem Angelicam recitaverint, & pro infirmo oraverint, quoties id fecerint, centum dies. Iis vero Confratribus qui SACRAMENTVM ipsum in Processione post maiorem Missam eadem tertia Dominica fieri consueta affociaverint, centum dies. ET SIMILITER ijs Confratribus vere paenitentibus, & confessis, qui sepulchrum Dominicum in dicta Ecclesia Beata Mariae, quinta in Coena Domini constructo solitum, visitaverint, septem annos & totidem Quadragenas de iniunctis sibi seu alias quomodolibet debitis paenitentijs relaxamus. POSTREMO quia difficile esset certum locum, in quo SACRAMENTVM reponatur, ubique uniformiter constituere, idcirco ut SACRAMENTVM ipsum vel in medio Altaris maioris, vel in alio commodiori loco arbitrio loci Ordinarij, si Ecclesia in qua Confraternitas celebratur, saecularis: si vero regularis fuerit, arbitrio eiusdem Ecclesiae superioris, reponatur & constituatur. ET VT huius Sanctissimi SACRAMENTI celebritas tanto in maiori veneratione habeatur, quanto per diversas orbis partes latius diffundetur, ut gratias & indulgentias praedictas (praeterquam eas quae ratione stationum VRBIS lucrifiiunt) alijs Sanctissimi SACRAMENTI Confraternitatibus extra VRBEM erectis, & erigendis, per Transumpta manu unius saltem ex Ministris ad id deputatis, qui in sacro presbyteratus ordine constitutus existat, subscripta gratis communicare valeat, eidem Confraternitati CONCEDIMVS literis super praesentibus conficiendis perpetuo duraturis. Non obstantibus praemissis, ac Apostolicis, necnon in Prouincialibus, & synodalibus conciliis editis specialibus, vel generalibus constitutionibus, caeterisque contrarijs quibuscumque. VOLVMVS autem quod si dictae Confraternitati aliqua alia indulgentia per Nos perpetuo, vel ad tempus nondum clapsum concessa fuerit, praesentes omino nullius sint roboris, vel momenti. NVLLI ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostrae largitionis, relaxationis, ultimo dictae concessionis & voluntatis infringere, vel ei ausu temerario contraire. Si quis autem hoc attentare praesumpserit, indignationem Omnipotentis Dei, ac beatorum Petri & Pauli Apostolorum eius se noverit incursurum. Dat. Romae apud sanctum Marcum, anno incarnationis Dominicae, Millesimo Quingentesimo Septuagesimo tertio, octavo Idus Augusti, Pontificatus nostri Anno secundo. QVAS QVIDEM literas Apostolicas prainfertas praelibatas, sanas, & integras, ab omni prorsus vitio & suspicione carentes vidimus, legimus, tenuimus, & diligenter inspeximus, & illas in hanc publici transumpti formam per infrascriptum dictae nostrae Confraternitatis secretarium redigi mandavimus ad instantiam Illustris et Reverendissimi D. Archiepiscopi Leopolien[sis] oratoris Serenissimi Regis Poloniae pro Confraternitate Sanctissimi Sacramenti erecta in Ecclesia Metropolitana in Civitate Leopolien[si]. Dummolo similis gratia prius alteri, per nostram Confraternitatem ibi concessa non fuerit. Cui quidem Confraternitati, & illius Confratribus, Nos Protector, & Administratores praefati totam ipsam nostram Confraternitatem repraesentantes per hoc praesens publicum Transumptum gratias, & indulgentias nobis, & Confraternitati nostrae per prainfertas literas concessas (praeterquam eas quae ratione stationum VRBIS lucrifiunt) gratis, & amore Dei communicamus. VOLENTES pariter, & decernentes huic praesenti Transumpto eandem fidem adhibendam fore, quae prainfertis literis originalibus adhiberetur, si forent exhibitae vel ostensae. IN QVORVM omnium & singulorum fidem, ac testimonium praemissorum praesentes literas, sive hoc praesens publicum Transumpti instrumentum exinde fieri, & per eundem secretarium subscribi, & publicari mandavimus, ac nostri sigilli iussimus, & fecimus appensione muniri. Dat. Romae in Templo Beata Mariae supra Mineruam in nostra congregatione, sub Anno a Nativitate Domini nostri IESV CHRISTI, Millesimo Quingentesimo Octuagesimo VI Indictione XIIII Die vero XV Mensis Julii Pontificatus Sanctissimi in Christo Patris, & Domini Nostri D. SIXTI Divina providentia Papa[e] Quinti Anno Secundo. Praesentibus nobilibus viris Marcello Odeschi & Io: Baptista Gilio Civibus Romanis. [Podpisy:] Scipio Gonz[aga] Patr[iarcha] Hier[osolymitanus] Adm[inistrator] Camillus Caet[anus] Adm[inistrator] [Zapiska notarialna / sekretarza po lewej:] Ego Hic[eronymus] [...] secretarius subscripsi [...] [W lewym dolnym rogu róża wiatrów / monogram notarialny z literami N P] [Nota kancelaryjna po prawej:] Anno D[omi]ni 1722 d[ie] 20 8bris In visitatione generali product[um], lect[um] et Actis visitationis adnotatum. Joannes Felix Szaniawski Ep[iscop]us C[hełmensis? / Leopolien.? / Coadiutor?] [W prawym dolnym rogu na plice:] Pro Civitate Leopoliensi. [Ślady po przewleczeniu sznura pieczęci w plice - zachowane fragmenty sznurka konopnego / jedwabnego]. [Verso:] [Zapiski archiwalne i rejestracyjne, m.in.:] 1633 [...] Bractwa Ciała Boz:[ego] [...] [Sygnatura wklejona na papierku:] L. IV / 5.