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The Five Righteous Men
The five righteous men were chosen, from my collection of exemplars. In the form of models to be looked up to historically, that has made the world a better place. Models such as Lorenzo Valla, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal Cesare Baronius, Cardinal Pietro Bembo and Abbé Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne. Five Righteous Men that I still admire today, and each, professing the Catholic faith. All of these men were devout Christians. Four of the five Catholic lived in a time when anything said or done against the church tenet could be tried for heresy. Death, as the ultimate penalty in most cases of going against church doctrines. Historians nowadays have a better understanding of history and church history because of these five men. Most if not all were Humanists like myself, but that is not why I celebrate them as examples. They put their lives and honour before their church and remained faithful to their God and beliefs. They were all scholars and put knowledge before Papal codes of conduct.
Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was an Italian humanist, rhetorician, educator and Catholic priest. Who put his life on the line when his textual analysis, of the Donation of Constantine in 1440, which he proved convincingly it was an 8th-century forgery. His life was saved only by his Patron Alfonso of Aragon (1396–1458) who gave him protection from papal agents for the rest of his life.
However, today nearly six centuries after Valla proved beyond doubt that the Constitutum Constantini was a Church forgery. We still get church and education establishments using the term alleged counterfeit for the fake imperial document.
https://userpages.umbc.edu/~jamie/html/on_the__discourse_on_the_forge.html
More information on Valla at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lorenzo-valla/
Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) was a Renaissance Humanist. In 1433, Cusa identified the Donation of Constantine as a fake, confirmed by Lorenzo Valla a few years later, and revealed the forgery of the Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals. It was probably, his friendship with many top Cardinal, many of which were school friends that saved him from punishment. He went on to become a papal legate.
Cardinal Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), flourished as an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist. Who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller. Bembo was an intellectual of the Italian renaissance. Also, acknowledged as the father of the modern Italian language. However, his claim to fame was as a witness to the speech given by Pope Leo X (1513-21). Today we thank Cardinal Bembo for his letters he wrote on Pope Leo X, which after Leo X death were the equivalent to the Watergate Tapes of 1972. The venerable Baronius from Cardinal Bembo letter library (see Baronius below) wrote:
‘The Pontiff has been accused of atheism, for he denied God and called Christ, in front of cardinals Pietro Bembo, Jovius and Iacopo Sadoleto and other intimates, ‘a fable,’ must be corrected.’ (Annales Ecclesiastici, op. cit., tomes viii and xi)*
In an early edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia (Pecci ed., iii, pp. 312-314, passim),** the church devoted two-and-half pages in an attempt to nullify the most destructive statement ever made by the head of Christianity. It based the essence of its argument on the assumption that what the Pope meant by ‘profitable’ was ‘gainful,’ and ‘fable’ was intended to mean ‘tradition.’ **Also see link Vol. III, page 51 of ‘In His Name.’
The Venerable Cardinal Cesare Baronius (1538-1607) was an ecclesiastical historian of the Roman Catholic Church. His best-known works (magnum opus) are his Annales Ecclesiastici, which appeared in 12 folio volumes. He refused twice to become Pope in 1605, preferring to study classical history than getting blood on his hands. In his magnum opus, for the 35th year after the birth of Jesu Christi. Baronius wrote: that Joseph of Arimathea sailed to Britain and preached to the Gospel to the (Celtic-)Gaul. Which also agreed with De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae/ On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain by Gildas Sapiens or Gildas the Wise (500-570). Also, Baronius documented the speech of Pope Leo X to an audience of Cardinals and friends. Which, included Cardinal Pietro Bembo listed above.
The emphases in ( ) are mine
Abbé Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (1843-1922), was a French Breton priest, philologist, teacher, critical historian of Christianity and an amateur archaeologist of repute. (He obtained the chair of ecclesiastical history at the Catholic Institute from 1877 to 1883, then he was dismissed for straying from the curriculum the church wanted.)
Like Lorenzo Valla before him, he noticed philology problems with the Liber Pontificalis/Book of Popes and in 1887 he published his results, which shocked the ruling church elite. That the Liber Pontificalis for the first six-centuries was the work of the same hand, and that there were further problems up-to-the 8th-century with anomalies until the 14th century. After his dismissal in 1883, Duchesne taught at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. Were, Duchesne influenced Alfred Firmin Loisy, a founder of the movement of Modernism? Which, was formally condemned under Pope Pius X. However, fortunes changed for Duchesne, and in 1900, he was back in favour with Rome, owing to his celebrity status amongst scholars. He was made a protonotary apostolic by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903).
(In the Roman Catholic Church, protonotary apostolic is the title for a member of the highest non-episcopal college of prelates in the Roman Curia or, outside Rome, an honorary prelate on whom the Pope has conferred this title and its special privileges.)
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