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Certiores quidem (1959.01.29)
This short Latin letter of John XXIII appoints Francis Spellman as papal legate to the Central American Eucharistic Congress in Guatemala (February 1959), extols the “splendour” of the event, and enumerates themes to be discussed: the role of the Eucharist in “domestic concord,” youth education, social-class harmony, perfection of the human person, and the tranquillity and prosperity of the republics concerned — closing with a Marian invocation and the so‑called apostolic blessing.
Exeunte iubilari anno (1959.01.31)
At the end of the so‑called Marian Jubilee of Lourdes (1958), John XXIII addresses Gregory Peter Agagianian, Armenian patriarch and head of Propaganda Fide, appointing him as his legate to preside over a Marian Congress in Saigon. The letter enthusiastically approves the Vietnamese bishops’ plan to celebrate the Lourdes apparitions, extols obtaining the “powerful patronage” of the Immaculate, and grants the legate faculties to pontifically preside, bless the faithful in his name, and proclaim a plenary indulgence. It is a brief, programmatic gesture: Rome’s public embrace of Lourdes, Marian congresses, and indulgences as instruments of its global policy in a strategically anti-communist region.
Epistula ad Eliam tit. S. Marci Card. Dalla Costa (1959.02.24)
John XXIII’s Latin letter commemorates the fifth centenary of the death of St Antoninus of Florence, praising his innocence, austerity, episcopal prudence, doctrinal writings, devotion to Our Lady, and exhorting the Florentine hierarchy and faithful to imitate his virtues, while presenting the then-archbishop Dalla Costa as continuator of his pastoral spirit and extending an “Apostolic Blessing” as confirmation of this continuity. The entire text is a carefully staged tableau: a true Dominican and Catholic saint is ceremonially co-opted to lend moral capital and pseudo-apostolic credibility to the nascent conciliar revolution.
Octogesimum Natalem (1959.02.25)
John XXIII’s brief Latin note flatters Louis Shvoy, “bishop” of Alba Regalis, on his eightieth birthday, praising his prudence, firmness, and merits, invoking divine reward, and imparting an “Apostolic Blessing” on him, his clergy, and his people; nothing more is said, and precisely this emptiness, issuing from the first usurper of the conciliar epoch, reveals an ecclesiastical power already transformed into courteous naturalism, sentimentality and institutional self-congratulation cut off from the integral kingship of Christ and the authentic Catholic notion of the episcopate and grace.
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