November 2025

A traditional Catholic ceremony outside the Ferrara Cathedral, dedicated to St George, with a bishop holding a decree and faithful kneeling in prayer.
Apostolic Letters

Mirabili nexu (1959.11.13)

The text published under the name Mirabili nexu (13 November 1959) and signed by John XXIII is a brief Latin decree that extols the historical, artistic, and devotional prestige of the cathedral of Ferrara (dedicated to St George) and, at the request of Natale Mosconi, grants it the formal title of minor basilica, with the standard juridical formulae of perpetuity, privileges, and nullity of contrary acts.

A reverent image of the Immaculate Virgin Mary and St. John Mary Vianney in a traditional Catholic church setting.
Apostolic Letters

Caelesti coruscans (1959.10.30)

Ad perpetuam rei demonstrationem: this brief Latinate ornament, issued by the usurper John XXIII, “confirms” the Immaculate Virgin as principal heavenly patroness and St John Mary Vianney as secondary patron of the diocese of Lafayette, cloaking a formally pious act in the counterfeit authority of the emergent conciliar sect and using genuine devotions as a screen for an already operative revolution against the Kingship of Christ and the divine constitution of His Church.

Marian sanctuary of Nuestra Señora de la Consolación in Táriba, Venezuela, with pilgrims praying before the revered image of Our Lady.
Apostolic Letters

Solacium ac levationem (1959.10.23)

The document issued by John XXIII on 23 October 1959, under the title Solacium ac levationem, proclaims that the Marian sanctuary of “Nuestra Señora de la Consolación” in Táriba (diocese of San Cristóbal in Venezuela) is elevated to the status of a minor basilica. In solemn Latin style it praises the local Marian devotion, highlights the alleged miracles and spiritual benefits tied to the image, and grants to this church all rights and privileges attached to minor basilicas, declaring contrary acts null and void. This short text, apparently pious and innocuous, in fact functions as a juridical and symbolic seal of the nascent conciliar revolution, subordinating Marian cult to a usurped authority and inserting it into the program of the coming neo-church.

Reverent depiction of Blessed Virgin Mary of Good Counsel and Saint Benedict as heavenly patrons of New Norcia Abbey, Australia.
Apostolic Letters

BEATAM MARIAM VIRGINEM «A BONO CONSILIO» (1959.10.21)

The text attributed to John XXIII declares that the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title “of Good Counsel” and Saint Benedict, Abbot, are constituted as the principal heavenly patrons “before God” of the abbey nullius of New Norcia in Australia, granting them the liturgical honours and privileges proper to primary patrons, and asserting the perpetual validity of this patronage decree.

St. John Bosco blessing young Colombian apprentices in a traditional Catholic chapel, emphasizing spiritual guidance over vocational training.
Apostolic Letters

IUVENTUTIS PRAECEPTOREM (1959.10.16)

The Latin letter attributed to John XXIII, titled “Iuventutis praeceptorem,” designates St. John Bosco as heavenly patron of Colombian apprentice youth (“los Aprendices Colombianos”) associated with the national training system (“SENA”), extending to them the privileges of patronage previously granted by Pius XII to Italian worker-apprentices; it clothes this act in the solemn juridical language of Apostolic Letters and asserts its perpetual validity.

A traditional Catholic image of Our Lady of Guadalupe of Estremadura in a solemn cathedral setting with devout faithful kneeling in prayer.
Apostolic Letters

RESPICE STELLAM (1959.09.09)

The text solemnly declares the Marian title “Blessed Virgin Mary of Guadalupe of Estremadura” as the principal heavenly patroness of the diocese of Ima Telluris et Pointapritensis and as titular of its cathedral, invoking the sweet authority of St Bernard’s “Respice stellam” to crown an already existing local devotion with liturgical rights and privileges, all promulgated by John XXIII at Castel Gandolfo in 1959 as an apparently pious, innocuous act of Marian patronage.

A reverent depiction of the Sanctuary of St. Thérèse in Anzio, Italy, as a Minor Basilica, showcasing its Romanesque architecture and sacred relics.
Apostolic Letters

Rosas caelitus (1959.07.23)

In this Latin apostolic letter, John XXIII, in the first year of his usurped reign, confers the title and privileges of a Minor Basilica upon the church in Anzio dedicated to St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, extolling the sanctuary’s architecture, ornaments, relics, and its role as a national shrine, and invoking St. Thérèse’s supposed protection in war as a motive to magnify a local cult under his authority. This seemingly benign act is in truth a programmatic liturgical-symbolic maneuver by the conciliar impostor to cloak the coming revolution against the Kingship of Christ and the divine constitution of the Church with sentimental piety and aesthetic prestige.

Minor Basilica of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad in Oaxaca, Mexico, with a devout Catholic family praying in the foreground.
Apostolic Letters

Religionis domicilium (1959.07.17)

The Latin text attributed to John XXIII bestows the title and privileges of a Minor Basilica upon the church of the Sorrowful Virgin Mary, known as “Nuestra Señora de la Soledad,” in Oaxaca (Antequera), appealing to its antiquity, material adornment, and long-standing popular devotion, and invokes papal authority to grant this juridical-liturgical dignity “in perpetuity” within the framework of the Roman structures occupying the Vatican. In reality, this apparently pious gesture is a juridical and theological Trojan horse: it instrumentalizes Marian devotion to consolidate the nascent conciliar revolution under a counterfeit authority, evacuating true ecclesial meaning while leaving only the bureaucratic shell of pre-1958 forms.

The cathedral of Zacatecas, adorned with baroque architecture and venerated Marian images, symbolizing the contrast between external beauty and internal apostasy.
Apostolic Letters

Meritis celebratur (1959.07.17)

The Latin text issued under the name of John XXIII confers the title and privileges of a Minor Basilica upon the cathedral church of Zacatecas, dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, praising its baroque architecture, venerated images, long-standing popular devotion, and the diligence of its clergy and liturgical furnishings, and then, by alleged apostolic authority, decrees this honorary elevation in perpetuity. The entire document, though brief, exemplifies how the nascent conciliar usurper regime clothes itself in traditional formulas to mask the absence of authentic apostolic authority and to shift the Church’s center of gravity from faith and doctrine to aesthetics, sentimentality, and institutional self-affirmation.

The Goldene Madonna (Our Golden Lady) of Essen depicted as the heavenly patroness of the diocese, with a medieval church in the background and people gathered in prayer.
Apostolic Letters

Essendiae in urbe (1959.07.08)

In this Latin letter dated July 8, 1959, John XXIII proclaims the Marian image known as the “Goldene Madonna” (Our Golden Lady) of Essen as the principal heavenly patroness of the newly erected diocese of Essen, invoking her under the titles of Mother of Good Counsel and “Domina Nostra Aurea,” and, with the usual curial formulae, grants her all liturgical honors accorded to diocesan principal patrons, declaring the act perpetual and nullifying any contrary dispositions. This apparently devout gesture is in fact one of the early juridical and symbolic seals of the conciliar revolution, mobilizing Marian language to lend sacred prestige to a nascent pseudo-hierarchy already detached from the immutable constitution of the Church of Christ.

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