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Flemish Episode of Papacy’s Struggle Against Jansenism in Documents from SPIIRAS Archive

Pavel Valentinovich Krylov PhD in History, scientific researcher, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya str., bld. 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197110)
pavel_kryloff@mail.ru

Крылов П.В. Фламандский эпизод борьбы папства против янсенизма в документе из архива СПбИИ РАН // Религия. Церковь. Общество. Вып. 14. СПб.: Скифия-Принт, 2025.С. 328–373.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2025-14-324-336

Language: Russian

The documents published in the article, which are part of the correspondence of the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain, are dedicated to the Holy See’s struggle against Jansenism, a Catholic movement within the Counter-Reformation, and its followers in the Spanish Netherlands. The first document, authored by CarloFrancesco Airoldi, the Papal Interim Nuncio in Brussels, reveals the secret restoration of the epitaph on the grave of Cornelius Jansen, the founder of a doctrine that was considered heretical. The author of the letter is alarmed by the spread of heresy and asks for instructions on how to proceed. The authors of the second and third documents, Cardinals Paluzzo Altieri and Carlo Barberini, demand that the recipient take decisive action against the court of Madrid in order to destroy the memorial. The eleven-month interval between the first and the second documents may be a testament not only to the slowness of the Spanish bureaucracy during the decline of the Habsburg Empire in the Iberian Peninsula, but also to the deliberate delay in carrying out the orders of the Holy See.

Key words: Spanish Netherlands, Holy See, Counter-Reformation, Jansenism

URL: https://rcs-almanac.ru/krylov2025-en/

Cardinal Palazzo Altieri’s project on legalization of Catholicism in Sweden: document from the archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Krylov P. V. Cardinal Palazzo Altieri’s project on legalization of Catholicism in Sweden: document from the archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2024, vol. 13, pp. 400–417.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2024-13-400-417

Language: Russian

The article presents for publication a document from the correspond ence of the Apostolic Nunciature in Spain, which is a project of Paluzzo Alt ieri, Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, aimed at achieving the right of Catholics to freedom of confession in Sweden in the 1670s, when it was a country of evangelical Lutheran orthodoxy. The text appeared as a response to a report by Niccolo Bargellini, the former papal nuncio to France, who credited himself with achieving freedom for the Catholic religion in Denmark. As arguments for achieving the goal, Nuncio Marescotti was recommended to use motives: 1. the Franco-Habsburg contradictions, 2. the benefits of religious freedom for the development of navigation and trade, 3. the favor of some German princes to Catholicism. At the same time, the instructions contain a lot of unreliable information, reflecting not so much the real state of affairs in the inter national church policy of the Baroque era, as the unsupported intentions of the Holy See.

Key words: canon law, holy see, proselytism, Sweden, international relations, Roman Catholic Church

URL: https://rcs-almanac.ru/krylov-2024-en/

Papal nunciature in France and struggle for freedom of Catholic faith in Denmark: document from the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Pavel Valentinovich Krylov phd in history, scientific researcher, Saint Petersburg Institute of History of Russian Academy of Sciences (Petrozavodskaya str., bld. 7, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 197110)
pavel_kryloff@mail.ru

Krylov P. V. Papal nunciature in France and struggle for freedom of Catholic faith in Denmark: document from the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2023, vol. 12, pp. 366–374.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2023-12-366-374

Language: Russian

The published document, issued from the correspondence of the Apostolic nunciature in Spain, is devoted to the observance of the rights of Catholics to confess freely their faith in Denmark in the 1670s, when it was the country of Evangelical Lutheran Orthodoxy. The author of the document, Niccolo Bargellini, was a former papal nuncio to France and took credits for the fact that a house for conducting Roman Catholic services and a plot of land for a cemetery had been transferred to the French Embassy in Copenhagen in favor of the French embassy. In fact, the chapel at the embassy was ment, and the inflating of his own merits was a consequence of the author’s failure to bring to the French court a set of measures to combat French Jansenism, on which the Roman court of Pope insisted.

Key words: canon law, holy see, proselytism, embassy chapel

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