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declared that none who refused to accept it should receive office.Corpus Evangelicorum (body of the Ugg Classic Tall Boots ErangtO. col), formerly the collective name of the evangelical states of Germany. The first league was made between Saxony and Hesse in 1528. Other evangelical states followed, and at the Protestation of Spires in 1529, the Corpus Evangelicorun was organized. In the Nuremberg religious peace in 1532, it entered as such in relation with the Corpus Catholicorum (q. v.). Tha headquarters of Ugg Bailey Button Boots the latter were in the electorate of Mayence, while Saxony stood at the head of the evangelical states. At the close of the sixteenth century, Frederic III, elector of the Palatinate, having become Protestant, became head of the Corpus Evangelicorum; but after he had lost all his states in the Thirty Yean' War, Sweden took the lead, which was, however, »■ stored to Saxony by the Diet of 1653. After the electoral house of Saxony had become Romanist, the lead of the Corpus Evangelicorum was claimed by several other Protestant states; yet it remained finally with Saxony, it being, however, Ugg Ultra Short Boots stipulated that the envoy of Saxony should receive his instructions, not from tbe elector, but from the college of the privy council at Dresden. The Corput Evttngelicorum ended with tbe dissolution of the German empire in 1806.—Herzog, RealEncyUop. iii, 166; Bolow, Vebtr getck. u. Vtrf. des Corp. Evang. (1795).Corpus Juris Canonic!, a collection of tin sources of the Church law of the Roman Catholic Church, consisting of old canons, resolutions of councils,

decrees of popes, and writings of Church fathers. Tbe collection gradually arose from the desire to have Ugg Roxy Tall Boots for the decision of ecclesiastical cases a lawbook of equally general authority as tbe Corpus Juris Cfnfil possessed in the province of civil legislation. Its component parts were originally compiled in strict imitation of the Corpus Juris CiviKs. I. Component Parts.—Generally recognised af parts of the Corpus Juris Canonici, and constituting what is called the Corpus Juris Clautum, are the Ugg Bailey Button Boots Decretw Gratiani (1151), the decretals of Gregory IX (1234), the Liber Serlus of Boniface VIII (1298), and the Clementines (1313). Disputed is the authority of the two collections of Extravagantes of pope John XXII (1340) and of the Extravagantes Communes (1484). Generally rejected are now the 47 Canones potnitentiales taken from the Summa de Casibus Conscientite of cardinal di Asti Ugg Stripe Cable Knit QlSumma Astesana"), and the Canones Apostolorum, both of which were, in the earlier editions of the Corpus Juris Canonici, given as an appendix to the Decrttum Gratiani. The same ia the case with the Instituti&nes Juris Canonici, and with the Liber SepHmus of Peter Mathews of Lyons.II. The Formation of the Collection.—The name of Corpus Juris Canonici was early given to the Decretum Gratiani in distinction from the Corpus Juris Civiiis. But from the fifteenth century it became customary to apply the name to the collection of the lawbooks above

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and, by a revelation from heaven, learned that the moon represented the Christian Church, and the gap Ugg Boots Clearance the want of a certain festival—that of the adoration of the body of Christ in the consecrated host—which she was to begin to celebrate, and to announce to the world. Further, in 1264, while a priest at Bolsena, who did not believe in transubstantiation, was going through the ceremony of benediction, it is said drops of blood fell on his surplice, and, when he endeavored to conceal them in the folds of his garment, they formed bloody images of the host! A bloody surplice is still said to be shown at Ugg Bailey Button Triplet Civita Vecchia. Urban IV published in the same year a bull, in which he appointed the Thursday of the week after Pentecost for the celebration of the Feast of Corpus Christi throughout Christendom, and promised absolution for a period of from forty to one hundred days to the penitent who took part in it. It was afterwards neglected, but was reestablished by Clement V, and since that time the festival has been observed as one of the most important in the Romish Church. Splendid processions form a part of it. The children belonging to the choir with flags, and the priests with lighted tapers, move throughthe streets in front of the priest who carries tbe host in a precious box, where it can Ugg Tassel Boots be seen under a canopy held by four laymen of rank. A crowd of common people closes the procession.—Buck, Diet. s. v.: Elliott, Delineation of

Romanism, bk. ii, ch. vii; Siegel, Handb. d. Christi. Alterthumer, and references there; and for the Romish Ugg Delaine Boots view, Butler, Feasts and Fasti, treatise xi.Corpus DoctrTnae, the name given to certain collections of writings which were intended to hare authority in the Protestant churches of Germany. The most important of these collections are the following: 1. Corpus Phillippicum, also called Saxonicttm or Mism'cira (published in 1560, fol. and often). It contained the three general symbols (the Ugg Classic Cardy Boots Apostolic, Nicssan, and Athanasian), the Confession of Augsburg (the /n«ariata) and the Apology, and Melanchthon's Loci Communes, Examen Ordinandorum, and retp. ad attic. Bovaric. It was considered as cryptoCalviuistic, and violently denounced by the rigorous Lutherans. Tbe Elector of Saxony, in 1569, threatened with deposition all who refused to teach hi accordance with it, but snbsequently this decree was repealed, and a number of defenders of the work were tried and Ugg Roxy Short Boots imprisoned. S. The Corpus Doctrine; Pomeranicum had the same contents as the preceding one. 3. The Corput Doctrine Prutenicum (Prussian), also called Repetitio doctrma to clesiasticot, was published in 1567, and directed against the Osiandrian errors. A decree of the prince, in 1567, prescribed it as a rule of faith for all times to come, and