An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church

by Henry Charles Lea

[1447] Henr. Cuyckii Speculum Concubinariorum Sacerdotum, Monachorum ac Clericorum; Coloniæ, 1599.

[1448] Synod. Constant. ann. 1609 (Hartzheim VIII. 838). Another orator, Dr. Mayer, S. J., though more cautious in his deductions, was equally outspoken in his denunciations of the wickedness of the clergy (Ibid. p. 831).

[1449] Synod. Antverp. ann. 1610 (Hartzheim VIII. 979).

[1450] Damhouder. Rerum Crimin. Praxis cap. xxxvii. No. 25 (Antverp. 1601).

[1451] Synod. Boscodunens. II. ann. 1612 (Hartzheim IX. 200).

[1452] Synod. Osnabrug. ann. 1625 cap. v., x. Hartzheim IX. 350.—Synod. Osnabrug. ann. 1628 (Ibid. p. 428).

[1453] Synod. Monasteriens. ann. 1652 (Hartzheim IX. 786-7).

[1454] Synod. Colon. ann. 1662 P. III. Tit. I. cap. 1 § iii. (Hartzheim IX. 1006).

[1455] Mag. Bull. Roman. Ed. Luxemb. 1742, T. VI. App. p. 2.

[1456] Pierre de la Place, Estat. de Relig. etc. Liv. III.