[1341] Innoc. PP. III. Regest. XIV. 138.—Yet abundant miracles in Strassburg testified to the divine favor in these trials.—Cæsar. Hiesterbac. Dist. III. c. 16, 17.
[1342] Nec ... quisquam purgationi aquæ ferventis vel frigidæ, seu ferri candentis ritum cujuslibet benedictionis seu consecrationis impendat.—Concil Lateran. can. 18. In 1227, the Council of Trèves repeated the prohibition, but only applied it to the red-hot iron ordeal. “Item. nullus sacerdos candens ferrum benedicat.”—Concil. Trevirens. ann. 1227, cap. ix.
[1343] Trithem. Chron. Hirsaug. ann. 1215.
[1344] Vulgaris purgatio est quæ a vulgo est inventa, ut ferri candentis, aquæ ferventis vel frigidæ, panis vel casei, monomachiæ id est duelli et ceteræ hujusmodi: sed ista hodie in totum reprobata est et maledicta, tum quia inventa est a diabolo fabricante.—S. Raymundi Summæ Lib. III. Tit. xxxi. § 1.
[1345] Ergo hujusmodi judicia sunt penitus reprobanda et purgatio per talia.—Alex. de Ales Summæ P. III. Q. xlvi. Membr. 3.
[1346] Hostiensis Aureæ; Summæ Lib. V. De Purg. Vulg. § 3.
[1347] Joh. Friburgens. Summæ Confessorum Lib. III. Tit. xxxi. Q. 2, 3.
[1348] Astesani de Ast Summæ de Casibus Conscientiæ, P. I. Lib. I. Tit. xiv.
[1349] Sachsenspiegel, ed. Ludovici, 1720, p. 619.
[1350] Fontanon, IV. 942.