amdg – Page 70 – Antipope John XXIII

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

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.

Young Spanish apprentices kneeling in prayer before Saint John Bosco's statue in a humble chapel, reflecting traditional Catholic devotion and moral guidance.

Apostolic Letters

Peculiare studium (1960.04.22)

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Ioannes Roncalli (John XXIII), having already inaugurated the conciliar revolution, here issues an Apostolic Letter in which he proclaims John Bosco heavenly patron of all Spanish “young apprentices” (Jóvenes Aprendices Españoles), emphasizing their technical education and moral guidance amidst modern dangers, and extending to them the liturgical honors proper to a patron. Beneath this apparently pious gesture appears the same poisoned program: the instrumentalization of a 19th‑century saint to baptize a paramasonic, social-humanitarian project that subordinates Catholic youth to the nascent neo-church of the “New Advent” instead of to the immutable reign of Christ the King and His true pre‑1958 Church.

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.

Apostolic Letters

Praeclarissimum (1960.04.07)

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The document, issued by antipope John XXIII in 1960, grants the parish church of St Dominic in Arezzo the title and juridical privileges of a minor basilica, extolling its Gothic-Romanesque architecture, its works of art (notably the Crucifix attributed to Cimabue), its historical association with Innocent V, and the care of the Dominican community for sacred rites and fostering vocations; with solemn juridical formulae, it decrees the elevation of the church and confirms the perpetuity and validity of this concession. In reality, beneath the polished curial Latin, we face a typical act of the nascent conciliar sect, which instrumentalizes traditional forms to mask the usurpation of authority and to habituate the faithful to accept a counterfeit magisterium.

Saint Joseph as the principal heavenly patron of the diocese of Cúcuta, depicted in a traditional Catholic scene with the Divine Infant Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Apostolic Letters

Beatum Ioseph (1960.04.07)

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The document issued by John XXIII on 7 April 1960, entitled “Beatum Ioseph,” purports to confirm Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as the principal heavenly patron of the diocese of Cúcuta. In brief, it recites the pious motives, notes the petition of Paulus Correa León, then “bishop” of Cúcuta, and, invoking “apostolic authority,” declares Saint Joseph patron with the usual liturgical honors attached to such a title.

The Archbishop of Milan stands in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana surrounded by sacred texts and traditional Catholic iconography.

Apostolic Letters

Religio bonaeque (1960.03.16)

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Francesco Roncalli, styling himself “Ioannes PP. XXIII,” issues in this brief Latin rescript the nomination of the sitting Archbishop of Milan “pro tempore” as Patron of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana. The document praises Cardinal Federico Borromeo’s founding of the Ambrosiana as a centre for sacred and humane letters, extols the Roman See as benefactress of higher culture, recalls Paul V’s provision that the Milan archbishop vigilantly visit the library, and then decrees in perpetuity that the Archbishop of Milan shall be its Patron, nullifying all contrary dispositions.

A Catholic bishop in full liturgical vestments stands in a historic Scandinavian cathedral holding the 'Apostolici muneris' document, surrounded by traditional Catholic iconography.

Apostolic Letters

Apostolici muneris (1960.03.01)

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The document under review, promulgated by John XXIII on 1 March 1960 under the title “Apostolici muneris,” decrees the erection of an Apostolic Delegation “in Scandia” for Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland, with its seat in Copenhagen. It presents this act as a pastoral measure to strengthen “the Christian name” and to promote “the true religion” by a diplomatic and administrative presence representing the “See of Peter” in those lands separated from Catholic unity.

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