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Among those who challenged their authenticity were Nicholas of Cusa (1401-
1464), Charles Dumoulin (1500-1566), and George Cassender (1513- 1564). The
irrefutable proof of their falsity was conveyed by David Blondel, 1628.
An early edition is given in Migne Patrolgia Latina, CXXX. For the oldest and
best manuscript, see P. Hinschius, Decretales Pseudo-Isidorianiae at capitula
Angilramni (Leipzig, 1863). Consult The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of
Religious Knowledge (1950), vol. 9, pp. 343-345. See also H. H. Milman, Latin
Christianity (9 vols.), vol. 3; Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doellinger, The Pope and the
Council (1869); and Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of
Christianity (1939), vol. 3; The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 5, art. "False Decretals,"
and Fournier, "Etudes sure les Fausses Decretals," in Revue d'Historique
Ecclesiastique (Louvain) vol. 7 (1906), and vol. 8 (1907).
Page 57. The Dictate of Hildebrand (Gregory VII).--For the original Latin
version see Baronius, Annales Ecclesiastici, ann. 1076, vol. 17, pp. 405, 406 of the
Paris printing of 1869; and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Selecta, vol. 3, p. 17.
For an English translation see Frederic A. Ogg, Source Book of Medieval History (New
York: American Book Co., 1907), ch. 6, sec. 45, pp. 262-264; and Oliver J. Thatcher
and Edgar H. Mcneal, source Book for Medieval History (New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1905), sec. 3, item 65, pp. 136-139.
For a discussion of the background of the Dictate, see James Bryce, The Holy
Roman Empire, rev. ed., ch. 10; and James W. Thompson and Edgar N. Johnson, An
Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1500, pages 377-380.
Page 59. Purgatory.--Dr. Joseph Faa Di Bruno thus defines purgatory:
"Purgatory is a state of suffering after this life, in which those souls are for a time
detained, who depart this life after their deadly sins have been remitted as to the
stain and guilt, and as to the everlasting pain that was due to them; but who have on
account of those sins still some debt of temporal punishment to pay; as also those
souls which leave this world guilty only of venial sins."--Catholic Belief (1884 ed.;
imprimatur Archbishop of New York), page 196.
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