Apostolic Letters

A reverent image of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Ponte in Sorocaba, Brazil, with a traditional statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at its center. Faithful kneel in prayer, reflecting both devotion and sorrow over the usurpation of Marian titles by the conciliar intruder.
Apostolic Letters

Praecipuo pietatis (1960.07.01)

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This brief Latin document, issued by John XXIII in 1960, declares that the image and title of the Blessed Virgin Mary under the name “Nossa Senhora da Ponte” venerated in Sorocaba (Brazil) is to be the “principal heavenly Patroness” of the Sorocaba diocese and episcopal city, granting her all liturgical honors proper to a primary local Patron. It justifies this act by appealing to Marian devotion among clergy and people and by the recommendation of the local hierarchy and papal diplomat, and it ends with the usual absolutist formula seeking to guarantee perpetual validity of the decree. In reality, this seemingly pious text is a juridical-stylistic façade masking the deeper usurpation of Marian titles, ecclesiastical authority, and cult by a conciliar intruder, instrumentalizing Our Lady in service of the emerging neo-church.

A reverent image of the Cathedral of Cesena, Italy, with a priest praying at the baptismal font of Pius VI and Pius VII. A copy of the Merito praedicatur document is displayed on a wooden lectern.
Apostolic Letters

Merito praedicatur (1960.07.01)

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The Latin text ascribed to John XXIII confers upon the cathedral church of Cesena the title and privileges of a “minor basilica,” rehearsing its historical and artistic merits, the baptisms of Pius VI and Pius VII in its font, and invoking routine juridical formulae to declare the elevation valid and perpetual. The entire document is a seemingly benign act of ecclesiastical patronage—but precisely in its apparent harmlessness, formalism, and historical flattery, it manifests the juridical imposture and spiritual void of the conciliar revolution already unfolding under the sign of John XXIII.

A solemn depiction of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz, reflecting historic Catholic piety and tradition.
Apostolic Letters

Catholica Polonia (1960.05.20)

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The document attributed to John XXIII under the title “Catholica Polonia” (20 May 1960) is a brief Latin decree by which he “elevates” the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sandomierz to the rank of a Minor Basilica, rehearsing the Catholic history of Poland, the antiquity and beauty of the church, its Marian dedication, its canonical chapter, and its connections with figures such as Vincent Kadłubek, Ceslaus, and Achilles Ratti (later Pius XI). It concludes by solemnly granting the title and privileges of a Minor Basilica to this cathedral. In reality, this seemingly pious act is a juridically empty gesture issued by an intruder, used to cloak the conciliar revolution with the borrowed prestige of an authentically Catholic past.

Sedevacantist Catholic bishop holding 'Quemadmodum Apostolici' letter in a ruined mission church in Madagascar.
Apostolic Letters

QUEMADMODUM APOSTOLICI (1960.05.03)

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The document “Quemadmodum Apostolici” of 3 May 1960, issued by John XXIII as an apostolic letter, erects a new Apostolic Delegation for the territories of Madagascar, Réunion, and Mauritius, with its seat in Tananarive, granting it the usual faculties, privileges, and indults proper to such delegations, and declaring all contrary dispositions null and void.

Traditional Catholic missionary scene in British East and West Africa, 1960, showing a priest with a crucifix before African natives.
Apostolic Letters

EO INTENDENTES (1960.05.03)

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The presented Latin text is an act of John XXIII, issued as so‑called Apostolic Letters, which changes the name and redefines the territorial boundaries of the Apostolic Delegation in British East and West Africa. It suppresses the previous “Delegatio Apostolica Africae Orientalis et Occidentalis Britannicae,” establishes the title “Delegatio Apostolica Africae Orientalis,” and assigns to it a list of territories (Sudan, Kenya, Zanzibar, Uganda, Tanganyika, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, French Somaliland, Seychelles), invoking missionary needs and the promotion of the “name of Christ” under the control of the Roman dicastery de Propaganda Fide. It is clothed in traditional curial Latin, asserts canonical-juridical validity, and presents itself as a pastoral, missionary measure ordered to the conversion of pagans from superstition to the worship of the one true God.

Traditional Catholic missionary priest in Nigeria, 1960, surrounded by African Catholics in front of a simple wooden church.
Apostolic Letters

Universae Ecclesiae (1960.05.03): Missionary Engineering of the Neo-Church in Africa

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The Latin text attributed to John XXIII under the title “Ad universae Ecclesiae” (Universae Ecclesiae, 3 May 1960) announces, in solemn curial style, the erection of an Apostolic Delegation of “Western Central Africa,” seated in Lagos, and subject to the then so‑called Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide. It delimits its territory (Nigeria, Cameroun, Gabon, Oubangui-Chari, Chad, and central Congo) and cloaks this bureaucratic reorganization in phrases about promoting the spiritual welfare of the faithful and more effective direction of missionary work.

Solemn image of the ancient cathedral of Trani in Italy, now elevated to a Minor Basilica, with traditional Catholic clergy and laity in prayerful devotion before its majestic architecture.
Apostolic Letters

Monumentum pietatis (1960.04.29)

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The text under review is an apostolic brief of Antipope John XXIII, by which he declares the ancient cathedral of Trani to be honored with the title and juridical status of a Minor Basilica, invoking its venerable history, relics of St Nicholas Peregrinus, architectural beauty, and the piety of clergy and laity, and conferring upon it the usual privileges attached to that title. It is a short, juridico-ceremonial document, couched in apparently traditional language, that outwardly appears harmless and even edifying. Yet precisely in this apparently innocuous act shines forth the underlying program: the usurper calmly occupies the juridical and liturgical structures of the Church to clothe his revolution with borrowed splendour, prostituting sacred titles to legitimize the conciliar sect that would soon devastate the Faith.

A traditional Catholic image depicting Saints Lawrence, Adalbert, George, and Bernard as patrons of Culm and Pelplin, with a solemn Latin document titled 'Beati Caelites' from 1960.
Apostolic Letters

Beati Caelites (1960.04.28)

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The document issued under the name of John XXIII, titled “Beati Caelites,” in Latin formality reconfirms Saint Lawrence and Saint Adalbert as principal patrons and Saint George as secondary patron of the diocese of Culm, and declares Saint Bernard principal patron of Pelplin, its episcopal city. It grounds this on the venerable cult of these saints and bestows the corresponding liturgical honors and privileges, employing the full formula of “apostolic” authority and perpetual validity.

A Catholic bishop solemnly proclaims Saint Vincent de Paul as patron of the Diocese of Arcis Delphini in Madagascar, surrounded by clergy and faithful in a grand cathedral.
Apostolic Letters

Studio inflammatus (1960.04.07)

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Sedevacantist summary of the document:
This brief Latin act of John XXIII proclaims Saint Vincent de Paul as the principal heavenly patron of the Diocese of Arcis Delphini in Madagascar, invoking his zeal for the Kingdom of God and extending to that diocese the liturgical honors due to a chief patron, with the usual legal formulae asserting perpetual validity and nullity of contrary acts.

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