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Council of Trent
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Council of Trent
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(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation
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Noun1.Council of Trent - a council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers; redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished various ecclesiastical abuses and strengthened the papacy
council - (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine


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The study has a distinguished intellectual genealogy: it originated as a Cambridge PhD thesis written under the direction of Peter Burke, whose interest in early modern Venetian thought goes back to his pioneering translations of Paolo Sarpi's histories of benefices and the Council of Trent.
This time the Church used the Council of Trent to reinforce that Jesus is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.
Charles Borromeo (feast day, November 4), a hero from the 1500s who not only saved the Council of Trent but who, today, "above all .
 
 
 
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