Apostolic Letters

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)

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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.
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Religionis domicilium (1959.07.17)

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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.
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Meritis celebratur (1959.07.17)

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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.
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Essendiae in urbe (1959.07.08)

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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.

Pope John XXIII solemnly approves the revised Rule and Constitutions of the Passionists in 1959, surrounded by Passionist superiors in a grand papal audience hall.
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Salutiferos Cruciatus (1959.07.01)

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The Latin letter “Salutiferos Cruciatus” (1 July 1959) presents John XXIII’s formal approval of the revised Rule and Constitutions of the Congregation of the Passionists (Clerics of the Sacred and Unshod Passion of Our Lord). It recounts the origins of the institute with St. Paul of the Cross, lists successive papal approbations (Benedict XIV, Clement XIV, Pius VI), and then, after the 1917 Code and mid‑20th century revisions, solemnly confirms a modernized, “adapted” normative text as binding while abrogating everything contrary to it.

Solemn proclamation by antipope John XXIII in a grand cathedral with bishops and clergy presenting the document 'Salutare Sidus', depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary as the Immaculate Conception.
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Salutare sidus (1959.06.10)

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The document “Salutare sidus” of antipope John XXIII declares the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception as principal heavenly patroness of the Archdiocese of La Plata, praising local Marian devotion and formally confirming, “with all liturgical honors and privileges,” this patronage for the conciliar-occupied jurisdiction. In reality, behind its seemingly pious Latin and Marian language, this text functions as a devotional anodyne masking the installation of a usurper and the progressive subversion of Catholic authority and worship under the emerging conciliar cult of the new religion.

A traditional Catholic altar adorned with a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, surrounded by solemn clergy in traditional vestments.
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ECCLESIAE FILII (1959.06.06)

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Ecclesiae filii, weighed down in this age, are here presented as rightly seeking the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of the Immaculate Heart, and on that pretext John XXIII, in the act styled Litterae Apostolicae «Ecclesiae filii», designates the Blessed Virgin Mary, invoked as “of the Immaculate Heart,” as the principal heavenly patroness of the newly formed Wollongong diocese, with the usual liturgical honours attached to a diocesan patron.

A traditional Catholic image depicting the solemn elevation of Our Lady of Lourdes parish church in Rio de Janeiro to a minor basilica by John XXIII.
Apostolic Letters

Augusta Virgo Lapurdensis (1959.05.23)

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The document is a Latin apostolic letter in which John XXIII, at the request of Jaime de Barros Câmara, grants the parish church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Rio de Janeiro the title and privileges of a minor basilica. It praises the architecture, Marian devotion, catechesis, and pilgrimages, highlighting especially the search for bodily healings through the intercession of the “Lourdes Virgin,” and juridically elevates this “sanctuary” as an officially privileged cultic center. In reality, this apparently pious act is a juridical and symbolic consolidation of a pseudo-marian, pseudo-miraculous cult within the framework of the conciliar revolution, preparing the ground for a counterfeit religion that displaces the Kingship of Christ with sentimentalism, superstition, and nascent modernist ecclesiology.

Traditional Catholic depiction of the shrine of Nuestra Señora de El Soto in Iruz, Spain, during a canonical coronation ceremony authorized by John XXIII.
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Potiora inter (1959.05.23)

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The document issued by the usurper John XXIII, titled “Potiora inter,” declares the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated as “Nuestra Señora de El Soto” (Our Lady of the Grove) as the principal heavenly patroness of the Toranzo region in Spain, recounts the local history of the shrine at Iruz, praises the devotion of the faithful and the pastoral role of religious orders, and authorizes the canonical coronation of the image with a golden crown. Its tone is outwardly pious, institutional, and devotional. Yet exactly in this apparently harmless Marian act we see the polished surface of a deeper rupture: the instrumentalization of Marian cult to legitimize an incipient conciliar revolution that would shortly attempt to dethrone Christ the King and replace the Catholic Church with a conciliatory cult of man.

A solemn Catholic ceremony in Argentina with Bishop Antonio M. Aguirre and Saint Isidore the Farmer as the principal patron of the diocese of San Isidro.
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Plantaria novella (1959.05.21)

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The document known as Plantaria novella (21 May 1959), issued by John XXIII, declares that the newly erected diocese of San Isidro in Argentina (founded in 1957 under Pius XII) should receive special heavenly protection, and, at the request of Antonio M. Aguirre, it solemnly designates St Isidore the Farmer as the “principal patron before God” of the entire diocese, attaching to this choice the liturgical honors and privileges due to a diocesan principal patron, declared in perpetuity and guarded by standard curial juridical formulae.

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