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Council of Trent
Begins
1545
Ends
1563
Council of the Roman Catholic Church held at Trent in northern Italy in twenty-five sessions between 1545 and 1563, which defined Catholic teaching on Scripture and tradition, original sin, justification and the sacraments in response to the Protestant Reformation and enacted wide-ranging disciplinary reforms.
The doctrinal decrees, canons and reform decrees of the Council of Trent (1545–1563), session by session, in Theodore Alois Buckley's 1851 literal English translation, with his supplement of related papal bulls, the Tridentine profession of faith, the rules on prohibited books and later condemnations.
The Roman Catechism issued in 1566 by order of the Council of Trent for parish priests, expounding the Creed, the sacraments, the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, in Jeremiah Donovan's English translation with his preface and the Praxis Catechismi.
