Aggregation letter of Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri for the Holy Trinity Confraternity at the Lviv Cathedral

[Graphic header – copperplate engraving depicting the Holy Trinity, papal and cardinal coats of arms, and the Roman S.P.Q.R.:] AGGREGATION LETTER OF INDULGENCES AND PRIVILEGES PALUZZO BY THE MERCY OF GOD BISHOP OF PALESTRINA, CARDINAL ALTIERI, CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH, PROTECTOR OF THE VENERABLE ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY OF PILGRIMS AND CONVALESCENTS IN ROME, Joseph de Aste, cleric and primicerius of the Venerable Apostolic Chamber, Prince Angelo Altieri, Marquis Fabrizio Nari, Canon Tiberio Buccapaduli and Giacomo Fallarini – custodians, and Girolamo Bonelli – chamberlain. To our beloved brothers in Christ of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity [...] canonically erected in the cathedral church of the city of Lviv in the Kingdom of Rus', eternal salvation in the Lord. We, who by the duty of our office are bound to strive for the salvation of the faithful and for the progress of piety and religion, willingly join and aggregate to our Archconfraternity other confraternities of the same institute, and grant to those joined the indulgences, powers, and other spiritual graces and indults in accordance with the authority granted to us by the Supreme Pontiffs. Having therefore considered that brother Father Antoni Cyrina of the Order of Saint Francis, brother and procurator of said Confraternity, earnestly requested such aggregation and the granting of indulgences; we, the aforementioned primicerius and custodians representing the will of said Archconfraternity, relying on the recently issued constitution of Pope Clement VIII of holy memory regarding the moderation of such aggregations and the granting of the heavenly treasury of the Church: led by that zeal from love of God and the desire to increase piety and the Christian religion, the aforementioned Confraternity canonically erected by apostolic or ordinary authority, considering the consent of the bishop, that is, the local ordinary, and the letters of recommendation testifying to its establishment, piety, and religiosity, by virtue of the apostolic powers granted to us, we join and aggregate to our Archconfraternity (provided that a similar grace has not been granted by us to another [confraternity] in that city, town, or land, and provided that at the time of said concession it was not aggregated to another archconfraternity), and to it and its brothers we generously grant and convey the below-written indulgences and special graces, nominally, explicitly, and strictly granted by various Roman Bishops of holy memory, the wording of which follows word for word and is as follows: POPE PAUL V. For an everlasting memorial. Considering that we have deemed it appropriate to prescribe the indulgences and spiritual graces which the Archconfraternity is to enjoy in the future. Therefore, revoking and annulling all and individual indulgences, remissions of sins, and pardons of penitential punishments granted hitherto to the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Trinity in Rome and its brothers by any Roman Bishops, our predecessors, and declaring them from the date of this writing to be devoid of any power and significance for the future. Trusting in the mercy of Almighty God and the authority of His Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul: to all Christ's faithful of both sexes who in the future shall join the aforementioned Archconfraternity, on the first day of their entry, if truly contrite and confessed they receive the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist and pour out pious prayers to God for the salvation of the Roman Bishop, [...] the consent of Christian princes, the eradication of heresy, and the exaltation of Holy Mother Church – [we grant] a plenary [indulgence]. Also at the hour of death to the same brothers of both sexes, present and future, who contrite and confessed, or fortified by Holy Communion, or if they are unable to do so, if they piously invoke the name JESUS with their lips, if they are able, and if not, with their heart, after the imposition of penance upon them – a plenary [indulgence]. And to those same brothers who are to be enrolled in the future, as well as those already enrolled in the said Archconfraternity, likewise contrite and confessed and fortified by Holy Communion, who piously visit the church or oratory of said Archconfraternity on the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, which is claimed to be the main feast of that Archconfraternity, from the first Vespers until sunset of that feast day each year and pray there as mentioned above – we mercifully in the Lord likewise grant a plenary indulgence and remission of all their sins. [...] [Description of further indulgences and privileges of Paul V] Given in Rome at Saint Mark's under the Fisherman's Ring on the 24th of October 1606, in the second year of our pontificate. So that the said Confraternity and its brothers may use, possess, and enjoy all these indulgences and spiritual graces described above collectively in accordance with the constitution of the late Clement VIII, the wording of which follows: POPE CLEMENT VIII. For an everlasting memorial. Whatever was once granted by the Apostolic See for the promotion of the salvation of Christ's faithful and was sanctioned and decreed with mature deliberation, great prudence, and caution; yet when the Roman Bishop with the passage of time perceives that some abuses have crept into the observance of those statutes and decrees to the detriment of souls, he ought by reason of his pastoral office to proceed against them in an appropriate manner [...] Given in Rome at Saint Peter's under the Fisherman's Ring, on the 7th of December 1604, in the thirteenth year of our pontificate. Wishing and deciding that the same faith be given to these our letters as would be given to the original letters written above, if they were presented or shown. And the aforementioned Confraternity must within three months adopt the red habit and perform one of three works: hospitality towards convalescents, visiting pilgrims or the dead, and add the title of the Most Holy Trinity to its own title; otherwise, the aggregation shall be void. Given in Rome at the usual place of our Congregation, in the year from the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ 1695, in the third indiction, on the 10th day of the month of May, during the pontificate of our Most Holy Lord Innocent XII, by Divine providence Pope, in the fourth year of his pontificate. [Signatures:] Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri, protector Joseph de Aste, primicerius Tiberio Buccapaduli, custodian Girolamo Bonelli, chamberlain [Verso:] [Chancery note from the 1722 visitation:] In the Year of the Lord 1722, on the 26th of November. During the general visitation, it was presented, read, and entered into the visitation records. Jan Feliks Szaniawski, Bishop of Philadelphia, suffragan and vicar general of the Lviv bishopric, signed by his own hand.

[Nagłówek graficzny – rycina miedziorytnicza z przedstawieniem Trójcy Świętej, herbami papieskimi, kardynalskimi oraz rzymskim S.P.Q.R.:] LITERAE AGGREGATIONUM INDULGENTIARUM, ET PRIVILEGIORUM PALUTIUS MISERATIONE DIVINA EPISCOPUS PRAENESTIN[US] CARDINALIS DE ALTERIJS S. R. E. CAMERARIUS VEN[ERABILIS] ARCHIC[ON]FR[ATERNI]TATIS SS. TRINITATIS PEREGRINORUM & CONVALESCENTIUM de Urbe Protector Ioseph de Aste Rev. Cam. Aplicae Clericus & Primicerius Princeps D. Angelus de Alterijs, Marchio Fabritius Narius, Canonicus Tiberius Buccapadulius, & Iacobus Fallarinius Custodes, ac Hieronymus Bonellus Camerarius. [D]ilectis in Christo Confratribus Confraternitatis SSmae TRINITATIS Austr[iacae?] Ord[inis] Canonice erectae in Ecclesia Cathedrali Urbis Leopolis Regni Russiae, salutem in Domino sempiternam. Nos, qui iuxta officii nostri debitum fidelium salutem, et pietatis, ac religionis progressum procurare debemus, libenter nostrae Archiconfraternitati alias eiusdem instituti Confraternitates adiungimus, et aggregamus, illisque aggregatis indulgentias, facultates, aliasque spirituales gratias, et indulta iuxta facultatem nobis a Summis Pontificibus concessam impartimur. Qua de re cum F[rater] P[ater] Antonius Cyrina Ord[inis] S. Franc[isci] eiusdem Confraternitatis Confrater, et Procurator aggregationem huiusmodi, et indulgentias, communicationem enixe postulauerit; Nos Primicerius, et Custodes praedicti vota ipsam Archiconfraternitate repraesentantes fel. record. CLEMENTIS Papae VIII. Constitutioni super hm̃oi [huiusmodi] aggregationis, et caelestis Ecclesiae thesauri communicationi moderatione nuperrime edita inhaerentes: huiusmodi zelo Dei amore, et pietatis, ac religionis Christianae augendae zelo ducti Confraternitati praedictae authoritate Apostolica, siue ordinaria canonice erectam, attentis Episcopi, seu ordinarij loci consensu, ac litteris testimonialibus, quibus eius institutio, pietas, ac religio comendatur, nostrae Archiconfraternitati, dummodo per nos simili gratia alteri in dicta Ciuitate, Oppido, uel terra concessa, et tempore hmoi [huiusmodi] concessionis alii Archiconfraternitati aggregata non fuerit, iuxta facultates Apostolicas nobis concessas adiungimus, et aggregamus, atque illi, eiusque Confratribus Indulgentias, et speciales gratias infrà scriptas a fel. record. diversis Romanis Pontificibus nominatim expressè, et praecise concessas largimur, et communicamus, quae tenor de verbo ad uerbum sequitur, et est talis. PAULUS PP. V. Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Cuperuas Archiconfraternitatis Indulgentias, et gratias spirituales, quibus in posteru fruantur, duxerimus praescribendas. Idcirco o[mn]es, et singulas Indulgentias, et peccator remissio[n]es, ac poenitentiar relaxationes Archiconfraternitati Ss. Trinitatis de Vrbe, et illius Confratribus hactenus quouscumq[ue] Romanos Pontifices praedecessores n[ost]ros concessas revocantes, et annullantes, ac nullius roboris, et momenti posthac a data praesentiu fore declarantes. De Omnipotentis Dei misericordia, ac Beator Petri, et Pauli Apostolo[rum] eius authoritate confisi: Omnibus utriusq[ue] sexus Christifidelibus qui dicta Archiconf[raternitati] in posterum ingredentur, die primo eorum ingressus, si uere poenitentes, et confessi Sanctissimu Eucharistie Sacramentum sumpserint; et pro salute Romani Pontificis, [...] Christiano[rum] Principu concordia, haeresum extirpatione, ac Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae exaltatione pias ad Deum preces effuderint, Plenaria. In mortis quoq[ue] articulo eisdem utriusq[ue] sexus nunc, et pro tempore existentibus Confratribus, qui poenitentes, et confessi, uel S.ma Communione refecti, uel quatenus id facere nequiuerint, nomen IESV ore si potuerint, sin autem corde deuote inuocauerint, iniu[n]cta eis poenitentia Plenaria. At tam ipsis pro tepore [tempore] defcribendis, quam iam descriptis in dicta Archiconf[raternitati] Confratribus similib[us] poenitentibus et confessis, ac sacra cōmunione [communione] refectis, qui Ecclesiam, seu Oratorium eiusde Archiconf[raternitatis] in Festo Smae Trinitatis, quod principale eiusde Archiconf[raternitatis] esse afferitur a primi Vesperis usq[ue] ad occasu Solis diei eiusde festi singulis annis deuote uisitauerint, et inibi, ut praefertur, orauerint, Plenaria similiter omniu peccatoru suor indulgentiam, et remissione misericorditer in Dno [Domino] concedimus. [...] [Opis dalszych odpustów i przywilejów Pawła V] Datum Romae apud S. Marcū sub Annulo Piscatoris die 24 Octobris 1606 Pontificatus Nri anno 2° Quibus õnibus Indulgentijs, ac spiritualibus gratijs supra a[d] collatim descriptis p[ro] Confērnitati, eiusq[ue] Confrībus uti potiri, ac gaudere possint iuxta fel. rec. Clementis VIII. Constitutionem cuius tenor sequitur. CLEMENS PP. VIII. Ad perpetuam rei memoria[m]. Quaecunq[ue] a Sede Apl'ica [Apostolica] ad promouendū Christifidelium salute aliquando concessa sunt, et ei ca maturo consilio, magnacq[ue] prudentia, et cautione sancita, et decreta sint; tame[n] cu Romanu Pontificē ex diuinae, salute foelicius progressu temporis animaduertis sen illim aliquas abusus in eisde[m] statuti, et decretis obseruandu prouenire; debet pro Pastorali officij munere illis opportuna ratione occurrere [...] Datum Romae apud S. Petrum sub Annulo Piscatoris, die VII. Decembris. 1604. Pontificatus nri Anno decimo tertio. [O]uolentes, et decernentes praesentibus his n[ost]ris literis eandem fidem adhibendam fore, quae praeinsertis litteris originalibus adhibentur, si forent exhibitae, uel ostensae. Et dictae Confrat[ernita]ti infrà tres menses Deferre Habitum rubrum, et exercere unum ex tribus operibus Hospitalitatis Convalescentium Peregrinos seu Mortuos Visitandi et addere proprio titulo, titulum Ss. Trinitatis alias aggregatio nulla sit. Datum Romae in loco solito n[ost]rae Congregationis, Anno a Nativitate Domini N[ostri] Iesu Christi MDCXCV Indictione Tertia Die vero 10 Mensis Maii Pontificatus Ssmi D[omi]ni N[ostri] Innocentij Divina providentia Papae XII. Anno eius IV. [Podpisy:] Palutius Card.lis de Alterijs P[rotector] Ioseph de Aste Primicerius Tiberius Buccapadulius Custos Hieronymus Bonellus Camerarius [Verso:] [Nota kancelaryjna z wizytacji z 1722 r.:] Anno D[omi]ni 1722 Die 26ta Novembris In Visitatione Generali Productum lectum et Actis Visitationis annotatum Ioannes Felix Szaniawski Ep[iscop]us Philadelphiensis Suffraganeus et V[icari]us Gen[erali]s Ep[iscopa]tus Leopoliensis manu propria