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Beautiful and rare handwritten parchment Papal Bull of Pope Sixtus V (1521 - 1590) dated 1589 

Parchment dimensions: width 43 cm, height 13.5 cm
Historical regesta dimensions: width 29.7 x height 42 cm
Material: parchment

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Bulls by Pope Sixtus V in 1589:

In 1589 he disbanded the Order of the Cavalieri Gaudenti, military monastic order born the centuries earlier.

With the Bull Coeli et Terrae (5 January 1586), Sixtus V condemned Renaissance astrology and magic, establishing the competence of Inquisitors, even in the simple practices of magic (illusionistic practices, those that do not produce specific effects on people).

In 1589, with the Bull Cum pro Nostri Temporali Munere, Pope Sixtus V reorganised the choir of Saint Peter, subsequently also castrated singers were admitted in the Papal chapel.

Sixtus V. born Felice Piergentile, then in his thirties Felice Peretti (Grottammare, 13 December 1521 – Rome, 27 August 1590), was the 227th Pope of the Catholic Church(226th successor of Peter) from 1585 to his death; he belonged to the order of Friars Minor Conventual.

The papacy of Sixtus V was in the path of the Counter-Reformation and of the implementation of decrees issued by the Council of Trent. The 20th of December 1585, Sixtus V, issued the Apostolic constitution Romanus Pontifex: remembered for having restored the practice of the Visita ad limina, giving a practical meaning to the principle of the obligation of residence of the bishops and their dependence to the Pope, reiterated since the first phase of the Council. All patriarchs and bishops, after the consecration, had to commit to travel of the city, first of all for visiting the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and then for reporting the situation of their dioceses to the Holy See. If a prelate had not been able to travel to Rome personally, he would send a representative.

On January 3rd 1586 Sixtus V issued the Apostolic Constitution Postquam Verus, with which he reformed the College of Cardinals. The document contained the following provisions:

the composition of the College of Cardinals cannot exceed the number of 70 Cardinals (before there was no limit). Among them, there can be no more than 6 Cardinal-Bishops (or Suburbicarian bishops), 50 Cardinals priests and 14 cardinal deacons. In this sense, Sixtus V changed the decisions of the Council of Costanza (1414-1418). The standard he set remained in place for over three centuries, until the papacy of John XXIII;
those who were born from an extra-marital affair cannot access to the cardinalate;
in the same way, who had an offspring cannot become Cardinal;
a person, to be appointed Cardinal, must be at least 22 years old and must have received Holy orders.
At the time of his rise to the throne, the Central Government of the Church had already permanent congregations as a pivot. Sixtus V increased the number and instituted new ones. The Pope inherited from its predecessors the following departments: The congregation of the Inquisition, Congregations of Indice, of the Council and of the Bishops, plus others of temporary nature. On 17 September 1586 Pope created the Congregation of regulars.

On 22 January 1588 Pope Sixtus V issued the Apostolic Constitution Immensa Aeterni Dei, which reorganized the Roman Curia fixing at 15 the number for Congregations of Cardinals, nine of which devoted to the management of the Church and the six remaining to the administration of the Papal States.

In another provision, the Pope changed the composition of the office of Apostolic Protonotaries fixing it at 12 members.

Finally, he founded the Stamperia Vaticana, for the printing of official documents of the Holy See (April 27, 1587 short Eam semper).

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