[Edital tratando da confirmação dos princípios que serviam de base à catequese cristã, elogiando os sacrifícios dos missionários residentes em Wankin (China), e enfatizando a necessidade de aplicação de excomunhão para aqueles que fizessem propaganda de doutrinas contrárias à fé cristã]
This is a formal ecclesiastical decree promulgated in 1704 and reaffirmed in 1707 by Charles Thomas Mallare, Patriarch of Antioch and Apostolic Vicar with *legatus a latere* faculties, alongside Brother Beda, Bishop and Most Reverend Provincial of the Neocor Missionaries Apostolic in China and Siam,...
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| Format: | Manuscripts |
| Language: | pt-PT |
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07-02-1707
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| Subjects: |
Ancestral Sacrifices
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Ancestral Tablets
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Apostolic Commissioner
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Bishops and Priests
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Charles Thomas Maillard de Tournon
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Chinese Rites Controversy
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Christian Monotheism
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Doctrinal Compatibility
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Ecclesiastical Decree
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Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
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Excommunication Clause
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Holy See Directives
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Legate de latere
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Liturgical Regulations
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Missionaries in China
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Nanking
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Official Document
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Papal Directive
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Rejection of Syncretism
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Secular and Regular Clergy
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Shangdi
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Society of Jesus
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Tianzhu
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Titular Patriarch of Antioch
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Veneration of Confucius
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Manuscripts
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| Online Access: | https://macau-legacy.usj.edu.mo/docs/P4MF64P4/viewer_P4MF64P4.html |
| Summary: | This is a formal ecclesiastical decree promulgated in 1704 and reaffirmed in 1707 by Charles Thomas Mallare, Patriarch of Antioch and Apostolic Vicar with *legatus a latere* faculties, alongside Brother Beda, Bishop and Most Reverend Provincial of the Neocor Missionaries Apostolic in China and Siam, and later endorsed by Lazarus Carneiro and Francis, Apostolic Vicars of Cambodia. Issued on 7 December 1704 and formally published on 7 February 1707 at Matani Nankiri, the document establishes binding canonical regulations for all missionaries—secular and regular, including Jesuits—serving in the missions of China, Siam, and Cambodia. It addresses five critical questions concerning the compatibility of Chinese and Southeast Asian ritual practices with Catholic doctrine, specifically delineating permissible civil veneration (*veneratio civilis*) of ancestors and cultural rites under strict conditions, while explicitly prohibiting participation in or endorsement of the ‘Sacrifice to Heaven’ (*Conchaji*), state cults (*Dovenis*), veneration of the ‘Tablet of the Ruler of Heaven’ (*T’ien-chu P’ai*), and local folk rituals (*geghili*). The decree invokes papal authority—including decrees of Urban VIII and Clement XI—and imposes automatic excommunication for non-compliance, reserving absolution solely to the Holy See or, in cases of imminent death, to the Society of Jesus under narrowly defined conditions. It constitutes a foundational regulatory text for the Chinese Rites Controversy within the early modern Catholic missionary enterprise. |
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| Physical Description: | 1f. pages |