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 Ironmlgatiitg i^t i^irb ^'ounnl of ilie athmtM \hWnm 
 
 CHARLES-FRANCOIS BAILLARGEON, 
 
 By the Mercy of God and the Graee of tlic Holy Apostolic Sco, Bishon of 
 Tioa, Assistant at tho Pontifical Throne, Administrator of the 
 Archdiocese of Quebec, &c., Arc. &o. 
 
 To the secular and regular Clergy, to the Religious Communities, 
 
 and to all the Faithful of this Diocese, Health and 
 
 Benediction in Our Lord. 
 
 o.rt;i:/::ltSS''^^'^ - ^^^-^^^^^ atlasttopuhHsh 
 
 But M-e had first to fulfil a grave duty. Pastors with respect to the people, 
 t le B,shop are but the sheep of the fiock with regard to the S.,ecessor of^PeS . 
 
 ( Trt Z T ^ "'?r '^'' ^^'^' ^^"^^ '"^ "'^^ ^he Church of God " 
 
 (Acts, 20 28) they are nevertheless subject to him, whom J.sus Christ has 
 appomted us VH=ar upon earth, and to whom, in the person of the Prince of 
 the Apostles, lie lias said : " Feed my sheep » (John, 21, 17) And this 
 religious submission which wo owe to the Supreme Head of the Church whom 
 the Saviour o_t the world has commissioned « to confirm his brethren" 
 (Luke 22, 32) iinposed upon us the obligation of laying the acts of our Council 
 at Ins teet, and of awaiting his approbation before promulgating them 
 
 The decree which contains this approbation concerns you, D B B as much 
 as It does ourselves, and therefoid, being persuaded that you will be happy to 
 know It, we make it our pleasing duty ,o communicate it to you 
 _ _ Tlie purport of that document is t'.at the S. Congregation of the Proj^aganda 
 m its meeting ot the 22nd of May last, after a careful examination of the decrees 
 
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 of the third provincial Council of Quebec, pronounced them worthy of 
 approl)ation ; luid that the Secretary of the Baid Congregation, liaving laid^ this 
 jiidgnieut before Our Holy Fatlier the Pope, in his audience of the 28th of the 
 "same montli, His Holiness was pleased to contirm it, and further to order the 
 said decrees to be promulgated and observed throughout this Province. 
 
 Upon vucoiv in ij; this high approbation of the decrees of our Council, we 
 understood that luit only were we allowed to publish them, bi;t that it was our 
 duty to do so wi;hout delay. Accordingly wo hastened to have them printed ; 
 and we are now enabled to promulgate tlicm, according to the command of the 
 Holy Father, and such is in fact the object of this pastoial letter. 
 
 Therefore, from the date of the publication of this pastoral, the decrees 
 of the third Council of the Province of Quebec shall be considered as duly 
 promulgated in this Archdiocese ; and conscptently they shall be to yon as so 
 many salutary instructions and holy laws, euuinatedfrom your chief pastors, and 
 endowed with the sanction of the Supreme Head of the Church. We therefore 
 confidently hope that your piety will induce you to receive them with all the 
 reverence due to so high an authority, and that you will make it your duty to 
 keep them, as dutiful children obey the precepts of their father. 
 
 We shall only add here a few words to direct your attention to the most 
 important of those decrees, which are the fourth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh 
 
 and twelfth. 
 
 By the fourth, the Bishops wished to renew and conhrm all the decrees ot 
 the first two Councils, in order thereby to maintain them in all their vigor, and 
 to oppose the deplorable propensity of most men to forget and neglect the wisest 
 laws and the most sacred rules. 
 
 The sixth, which is comi)aratively lengthy, treats of the dignity, of the 
 authority, and of the duties of Bishops. In the two former Councils, tlu- 
 Bishops had reminded the priests, the parish priests, and all ecclesiastics in gene- 
 ral, of the peculiar virtues of their holy state, and of the obligationsof their sacred 
 ministry. In this, they considered it their duty to draw up as it were a com- 
 pendious synopsis of the duties of tiieir own awful and sublime office. This they 
 have done in the si cth decree, loth for their t)wn and for your edification. For 
 they wished, by the consideration of those dncies, first to excite themselves to 
 fulfil them worthily, and moreover to induce you to honor their dignity, to 
 acknowledge their authority, and frequently to pray for them, that they may 
 correspond to their holy vocation, and approve themselves in all tlungs faithful 
 ministers of Jesus-Christ for the salvation of your souls and the greater glor.v 
 of God. 
 
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 Tlie seventh, extends to all the Dioceses of this Province, without excopti(.n, 
 the ancient rule which circumscribes tlie limits of the jurisdiction of parish 
 priests in tins Archdiocese : so that, henceforward, by virtue of this decree 
 every parish priest of this Province shall bo authorized to preach and to hear con- 
 tessions in those parishes, even of another diocese than his own, of which the 
 nearest habitations are not more than nine miles distant from the limits of the 
 parisli committed to his care. 
 
 In the tenth, the lathers of the Council, heedful of the exhortations of the 
 bov^ereign Pontitf, raise their voice apiinst that host of errors and heresies which 
 in this age of nnSelief, the agents of hell continually invent, and which they 
 leave no means untried to propagate among men, to the misery of nations, and 
 the ruin of souls. In order to oppose tliun with greater force aiid better success 
 they invoke the supreme autliority of the Holy Father, and ordain that to 
 the present decree be joined his two impcrtant allocutions (tliose of 1854 Dec << 
 and 1862 June 9), in which he points out to the christian world, proscribes aiid 
 condemns all those monstrous errors. 
 
 The eleventh, cheoifully do wo belie. e it, D. B. B., will find a loud echo in 
 your catliohc hearty. It contains a warm protestation of respect and love for 
 and attachment to tlie Sovereign Pontitf, the glorious Pius IX, made in the 
 name of the Bishops, the Clergy, and all the Faithful of this Province and 
 accompanied with a solemn act of adhesion to the celebrated declaration of the 
 Lishops, gathered in Rome in 1802 for the canonization of tlie Holy Martvrs of 
 Japan, concerning the temporal riglus of the Holy Sec: wliich declaration is 
 iHit the faithful expression of the sentiments of the Bishops, the Clergy and 
 all true Catholics throughout the world. ' 
 
 This decree, we feel convinced of it, will receive your henrty approbation 
 and you are prepared to subscribe to it with joy. I„ these unhai.py davs 
 when Hell and the world seem to have formed a league, to wage a relentless war 
 against the Head of the Church, it is glorious for the children of that Churc'i 
 to proclaim in the face of the world their filial respect and tender love for the 
 Jlo y I ontifi, and their inviolable attachment to his sacred person ; it is desirable 
 and of the utmost importance that all Catholics should raise their >oice 
 together to defend him and to safeguard his rights ; it is their duty, in fine and 
 a source ot happiness to them, to gather round his throne, in order thus to 
 remain more close'y united to him and to each other, and thereby to be enabled 
 to protect him more efhcaciously against the aggressions of his enemies. 
 
 lastly, the twelfth decree of our Council relates to our noble Laval University. 
 
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In this truly roinarkable decree, the Bishops show us in the first i)Iacc, that the 
 liitliers of tiio first provincial Council, considering the great eervicos which a 
 catholic universily can render to letters, to society, and to religion, had i)lcdged 
 tlicnieulves to do all in their power to procure to the catholics of this country the 
 udvantago of having their own universities, as well as thoir own colleges and 
 
 schools. 
 
 They acknowledge in the second place, that it is at the reiterated request of 
 the same Bishops also, that the Seminary of Quebec, at the price of immense 
 hacrifices, has founded the Laval University. They next declare that they 
 approve the Statutes of that Univ. isity, ami olFer up fervent prayers for its 
 increase and prosperity : which uhmidaiitly proves that it answers their 
 cxpextation perfectly, and that it is tlieir fond wish those catholic young men 
 should flock thither,' who intend ti> fit themselves for the liberal professions, by 
 the study of the higher branches of learning. 
 
 In fine, considering that the nunber of students at the Laval University is 
 far smaller than what it ought to be, and, no doubt, grieving to see that too 
 many of our catholic young men persist in going to i)rotestant colleges and 
 universities, to the in'uninent peril oi their faith and morals ; the fathers of our 
 Council solemnly warn all the faithful of this Piovince, to watch over the 
 salvation ofthoseinlrusled to their care : beseeching them in the name of the 
 Lord, to provide first of all for the preservation of their faith and morals ; and, 
 to this end, not to allow them to draw the waters of science but from the purest 
 
 spring. 1 1 it 
 
 Let us hope therefore that all catholic fathers and mothers, who have the 
 
 salvation of their children at heart, will c.mprehend these grave admonitions 
 of tlieir chief pastors, and that they will profit by them, for the honor of our 
 Ileligion and the greater gloiy of God. _ 
 
 Such are in substance, D. B. B., the principal decrees of our third provincial 
 Council, which we this day publish. Such is in short the result of the labors oi 
 the Bishops of the Province in their last reunion : labors undertaken for the 
 interest of your salvation, and which they concluded with a fervent prayer 
 addressed to Mary conceived without sin, the mother of God ; beseeching her. 
 as the patroness of the Metropolis and of the whole Province, to take under her 
 powerful protection their persons and their dioceses, your souls and theirs, and 
 saying to her, with the whole Church of God : Begina sine laU concepta, ora 
 pro nobis. Queen conceived without sin, pray for us. 
 
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 This our pnstoml letter Bhall be read in all the churches and parochial 
 <-mpo]8, where d.vuie service io publicly celebrated, and moreover in all the 
 chapters ol the relii^nous comnnuiities, on the first Sunday after its reception 
 
 Given at Quebec under our hand and seal, and the counter-sign of our 
 .secretary, on Ash-Wednesday, the fourteenth day of February, one fhou and 
 eight hundred and sixty six. ^» " uiuusana 
 
 t C. F. BISHOP OF TLOA, 
 
 Adminutraior. 
 By His Lordship's command, 
 
 Edmond Langevin, Priest, 
 
 Secretary, 
 
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