Aonio Paleario

Sentence

Court

Congregation of the Holy Office

Local judge

Sentence date

30 June 1570

Sentence place

Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio

Crime category

Formal heresy

List of crimes

1. Negabat esse ac reperiri Purgatorium;
2. Morem improbabat mortuos in ecclesiis sepeliendi, alioqui huiusmodi mortuorum foetorem reiciendum;  antiquorum Romanorum more, qui mortuos extra Urbem sepelire censuerunt, affirmabat;
3. Contemnebat maleque sentiebat de statu, et habitu monachorum, eos comparando sacerdotibus Martis, qui ferebant ancilia per Urbem, canentes et tripudiantes; et sacerdotibus Cibelis abscissis, et velut funatis colla contorquentibus et Magis Gallorum; eosque ex vario habitu religioso irridebat;
4. Videbatur attribuere iustificationem soli fiduciae in Divina misericordia, remittente peccata per Christum

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1. He denied the existence and presence of Purgatory.
2. He disapproved of the practice of burying the dead within churches, arguing that the stench of corpses should be managed differently. He supported this view by referring to the customs of the ancient Romans, who decreed that the dead should be buried outside the city of Rome.
3. He despised and held a very low opinion of the state and attire of monks, comparing them to the priests of Mars, who carried the ancilia through Rome while singing and dancing, to the priests of Cybele, who, with their garments torn, twisted their necks like those of torches, and to the magi of the Gauls. Moreover, he mocked them for their diverse religious garments.
4. He seemed to attribute justification solely to trust in divine mercy, which remitted sins through the work of Christ.

Reason for conviction

Pertinacious / impenitent

Accessory penalties

Seizur