Part 21 (1/2)
_A heretical blasphemy._
Others saying to him 'Let us go to ma.s.s,' he answered by asking, 'What could they get by hearing ma.s.s?' thus disturbing the devotions of the hearers, and scorning this holy performance.
_Considered in connexion with the other a.s.sertions, this is scandalous, and sapiens haeresin._
Speaking of Indulgences, he said with some contempt, that he should value six dineros more than all the Indulgences together, and that they were good for nothing.
_Scandalous and heretical._
Speaking of prodigies and miracles, he said that from the time of Christ to the present day there had been no miracles, that he knew this well, since he had conversed with a learned person. On another occasion, discoursing on the same subject, he said, that G.o.d had never performed a miracle, and he knew it, making at the same time the sign of the cross upon his forehead.
_Heretical._
Speaking of t.i.thes, he a.s.serted that, were it not for compulsion, he would not pay t.i.thes, and that it would be better for people to enjoy the fruit of their labors themselves, and not the ecclesiastics.
_Insulting and scandalous._
Speaking of burials and supplications for the dead, he a.s.serted that when he died he would as willingly be interred in common, as in consecrated ground, and that but for compulsion he would not have a ma.s.s said for his soul.
_Sapit haeresin._
He spoke with disrespect of the Holy Inquisition, and said that the Inquisition corrected none but madmen and fools, making them declare just what was desired, and then punis.h.i.+ng them.
_Scandalous and insulting to the Holy Tribunal._
The bells tolling for a dead person, some one said to him, 'Let us say a _paternoster_ for the dead,' to which he replied with contempt, 'To what purpose all these prayers for the dead?' The other person answering that they were supplications for his soul if in Purgatory, inasmuch as the souls, which do not go to heaven or h.e.l.l, are detained in Purgatory, he replied scoffingly to this effect: 'Who has ever been in Heaven, h.e.l.l, or Purgatory, to tell us what becomes of the souls of the dead?' adding, that sooner than die he would be transformed to a horse, an ant, or any other animal, for dead men never come back, and that when dead he would as willingly be buried in rubbish as in consecrated ground.
_Heretical._
Speaking of supplications for rain, he said they were good for nothing, and that it was nonsense to waste money for this purpose, for whether supplications were made or not, it would rain and s.h.i.+ne just as it did in other parts of the world; that the rain depended upon the clouds, and G.o.d did not concern himself about it, adding, 'Search in what part G.o.d exists to make it rain;' and some one answering him, he repeated that they must get this error out of their heads, about supplicating for rain, as it was of no effect.
_Scandalous and heretical._
That St Thomas committed errors like the rest, and that it was useless to cite the authority of the Holy Fathers, for they were not to the purpose.
_Scandalous and insulting to the Holy Fathers._
That we could not be certain that the supplications produced rain or cured sickness, and that it was superst.i.tious to believe so as the vulgar did.
_Heretical._
The person who uttered the above sayings is declared unanimously to be a scandalous, presumptuous, and insulting blasphemer of the Saints, Holy Fathers, the Pope, and Ecclesiastical State, and to be suspected _de vehementi_.
MARIANO ALBERICH.
FR. RAFAEL TALAVERA.
FR. AUGUSTIN VOLTAS.
F. BUENAVENTINA DE LANUZA.