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Eugenius III, 1145-1153

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priest whom you indicated (in your letter) had died without the water of baptism, because he persevered in the faith of holy mother the Church and in the confession of the name of Christ, was freed from original sin and attained the joy of the heavenly fatherland. Read (brother) in the eighth book of Augustine's "City of God"1 where among other things it is written, "Baptism is ministered invisibly to one whom not contempt of religion but death excludes." Read again the book also of the blessed Ambrose concerning the death of Valentinian2 where he says the same thing. Therefore, to questions concerning the dead, you should hold the opinions of the learned Fathers, and in your church you should join in prayers and you should have sacrifices offered to God for the priest mentioned.

Celestine II 1143-1144

Lucius II 1144-1145

EUGENIUS III 1145-1153

COUNCIL OF RHEIMS3 1148

Confession of Faith in the Trinity4

389. 1. We believe and confess that God is the simple nature of divinity, and that it cannot be denied in any Catholic sense that God is divinity, and divinity is God. Moreover, if it is said that God is wise by wisdom, great by magnitude, eternal by eternity, one by oneness, God by divinity, and other such things, we believe that He is wise only by that wisdom which is God Himself; that He is great only by that magnitude which is God Himself; that He is eternal only by that eternity which is God Himself; that He is one only by the oneness which is God Himself; that He is God only by that divinity which He is Himself; that is, that He is wise, great, eternal, one God of Himself.

390. 2. When we speak of three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we confess that they are one God, one divine substance. And contrariwise,

  1. Cf. De civ. Dei 13, 7 [ML 41, 381]. De facto the Pontiff seems to have regard for St. Augustine's De baptismo IV 22, 29 [ML 43, 173]. ↩

  2. Cap. 51 [ML 16, 1374]. ↩

  3. In Gaul. ↩

  4. Msi XXI 712 Ef (725); coll. Hfl V 524; Hrd VI, II 1299 Df (1309). ML 185, 617 Bf; Bar(Th) ad 1148 n. 9 (19, 18 bf).—In the case of Gilbert Porretanus, on the testimony of Otto of Freising, "the Roman Pontiff defined that no reasoning should make a division between nature and person in theology, and that God should be called divine essence not only according to the sense of the ablative but also according to the sense of the nominative. This creed was set forth in council.—In the same council Eon of Stella and Henry were condemned. ↩