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Sentence of the Judge / Two Bulls of Boniface IX

Angers, as witnesses to what precedes, specially called and requested.
Johannes of Castello, Notary of the said Court.

Certificate and signature of the Notary, Scribe, and Secretary of the aforementioned Lord Cardinal.

In the name of the undivided Trinity, of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. In the year after the birth of the Lord 1446, the eighth period of fifteen years, at the time of the most holy Father and Lord in Christ, Pope Eugenius IV, by God’s providence. I, Jacob, son of the Lord Divus of Callio, by Apostolic and Imperial power a public Notary, and now Notary, Scribe, and Secretary of the aforementioned Most Reverend Father and Lord in Christ, Lord Johannes Cardinal Turrecremata of the Title of Saint Mary across the Tiber, formerly of Saint Sixtus, Priest Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church.

Whereas I, by the command and order of the aforementioned Most Reverend Lord Cardinal, have faithfully and diligently looked at, held, touched, compared, and researched the transcribed declarations, interpretations, chapters, and other things against the book or quires a set of leaves in a manuscript, together with the Reverend Fathers Magnus, Confessor, and Olavus, the aforementioned brothers who worked with me on this; and I find that they agree in everything and through everything word for word, and nothing has been added or taken away that would change the meaning or weaken the understanding.

And whereas I, on the fifth day of April of the same year, in the presence of the aforementioned Magnus and Olavus, and the Reverend men Master Petrus Mathæi Aroser, and Ericus Bastonis, a cleric of the Bishopric of Linköping, as witnesses, checked the unwritten words which were overlooked and corrected, namely: on the second leaf in the Bull of Canonization, these words near "the young Tobias and Sarah, daughter of Raguel"; and on the margin of the third leaf at the beginning of that same Bull, these words "commanded, fasted four times a week," and similar things; and on the fourth leaf in the fourth article, the word "Eternity"; and at the end of the same fourth leaf at the end of the sixth article on the margin, these words "In this fear You can have mercy on me alone"; and on the fifth leaf in the twelfth article on the margin, these words "said properly in another way"; on the same leaf in the thirteenth article on the margin, these words "could be compared with it, nor the suffering of the body"; and on the eighth leaf in the 44th article on the margin, these words "as also for one"; and on the ninth leaf in the 55th article on the margin, these words "Canonists and Doctors"; and on the tenth leaf in the 44th article on the margin, these words "signing and punishment"; and on the same leaf in the 66th article in the penultimate verse, between the lines, these words "never laid down the soul"; and on the thirteenth leaf in the 56th article on the margin,

these words "natural or in matters"; and on the fourteenth leaf in the 90th article in the sixth line, this word "happened"; and on the sixteenth leaf in the 117th article in the third line, this word "Angel"; and on the same leaf in the same article in the fourth line near the end of the article, these words "and the glory"; and on the seventeenth leaf in the 121st article in the fourth line, this word "one"—I have held these against the aforementioned original writings and found that they were overlooked and omitted through the error of the scribe, and thereafter well and faithfully corrected, replaced, and brought back in. Therefore, at the persistence and request of the aforementioned brothers Magnus and Olavus, as a protection, strength, and testimony of all that is said before, I have signed with my own hand and sealed with my usual signet.

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Two Bulls

Of Pope Boniface the Ninth, which we received from P. Luca Waddingo, writer of the Order of Friars Minor the Franciscans, who extracted them from the Vatican Register. From the fourth book of the second year on the sixth leaf.

Boniface, etc. To all the Christian faithful who shall see this letter, health, etc. The Radiance of the Fatherly Heart, etc. Since we desire that the Church of the Monastery of the Nuns at Saint Lawrence in Panisperna a church in Rome of the Order of Saint Clare—in which the blessed Birgitta devoutly remained for several days while she still lived, and paid her debt to nature, and where her body was buried, and in which she was afterwards made known by many miraculous signs, and where much of her holiness is devoutly honored—be frequently visited by the Christian faithful with due honors; and so that the faithful themselves may come there with all the more devotion the greater the benefit and welfare of souls they hope to draw from it; therefore, trusting in the mercy of Almighty God and the power of His blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, we graciously remit seven years and seven quadragenes forty-day periods of penance from their enjoined penances to all those who truly repent and confess, and who devoutly visit the said Church on the Feast of Saint Birgitta, namely the 23rd of July original: "hewmonats", and on the day of her Canonization, which was performed by us on this day, and for the next five days thereafter following the feast and day of such Canonization, annually for each day of the Feast, and of the Canonization, and of the aforementioned five days on which they shall devoutly visit the mentioned church, annually as stated before. Given at Rome