Council of Trentin a sentence
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The Council of Trent ended the sale of indulgences.
Council of Trent = a council of the Roman Catholic Church convened between 1545 and 1563 that redefined Roman Catholic doctrine
- It was not required for religious leaders to give validity to marriages until 1545 when the Council of Trent recognized matrimony as one of the seven sacraments... (source)
- As an obituary notice later described it: With a readiness which was often surprising he could quote from a Roman law or a Greek philosopher, from Virgil's Georgics, the Arabian Nights, Herodotus or Sancho Panza, from the Sacred Carpets, the German Reformers or Adam Smith; from Fenelon or Hudibras, from the Financial Reports of Necca, or the doings of the Council of Trent; from the debates of the adoption of the Constitution, or the intrigues of the kitchen cabinet, or from some forgotten speech of a deceased member of Congress.† (source)
- But as he had turned over to me his orders for books on theology, literature, history, and philosophy, and I copped Ranke's History of the Popes and Sarpi's Council of Trent for the seminary students, or Burckhardt or Merz's European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, I sat reading.† (source)