The Nineteenth Session of the Council of Trent

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NINETEENTH SESSION

which is the third under the Supreme Pontiff, Pius IV, celebrated on the fourteenth day of May, 1562

DECREE FOR THE PROROGATION OF THE SESSION

The holy, ecumenical and general Council of Trent, lawfully assembled in the Holy Ghost, the same legates of the Apostolic See presiding, has for good and just reasons thought it fit to prorogue and does hereby prorogue to the Thursday after the next feast of Corpus Christi, which will be the fourth day of June, those decrees which were to have been drawn up and sanctioned today in the present session, and announces to all that the session will be held and celebrated on that day In the meantime, supplication is to be made to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the author of peace, that He may sanctify the hearts of all; that by His help the holy council may now and always be able to counsel and accomplish those things that will be for His praise and glory.