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Adolf · 1472

the nobleman Wilhelm, Duke of Saxony, it was formerly set forth that he, the Duke, from the special feeling of devotion which he bore from his innermost heart toward our illustrious protectress, the most glorious Virgin Mary, desired that the Feast of the Presentation of the same most blessed Virgin, which is customarily celebrated annually on the twenty-seventh day of the month of November in his lands and domains, should also be venerated solemnly on said day annually for all future time in perpetuity by special decree and statute of the Apostolic See. And the same predecessor, attending piously and considering the sincere feeling of devotion which the aforementioned Duke was proven to bear toward him and the Roman Church, and considering that the merits of the aforementioned most blessed Virgin toward the human race could not be repaid with such honors, but rather she was deemed worthy of even greater and more illustrious things day by day; inclined by the petitions made on behalf of the aforementioned Duke, namely, on the day given, the ninth of June, in the sixth year of his pontificate,