Industriae tuae

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The beginning of Industriae tuae in Latin and Slovak on the granite plinth of the Svatopluk monument in Bratislava Castle

Industriae tuae ( Your zeal ) are the opening words of the bull issued by Pope John VIII in June 880.

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John VIII informed the Prince of Great Moravia , Svatopluk I , of the results of the Roman synod to which the Moravian Archbishop Method was summoned on the basis of complaints from the Latin priests Wiching and John of Venice. Method should explain what he professes and what he and his students teach. John VIII confirms the decision of his predecessor Hadrian II , who approved the Slavic liturgy in the Bull Gloria in Excelsis Deo and appointed Method as archbishop of the newly founded Pannonian- Moravian Diocese .

meaning

The issuance of the bull was a great foreign policy success for Svatopluk I. It is an important document of the period. With his address "To the beloved son Svatopluk, the vaunted ruler", the Pope lifts Svatopluk in line with the other Christian rulers in Europe at that time.

Text transmission

An original of the bull has not survived. The text is preserved in the register of John VIII (Volume 1 of the Vatican Register in the Vatican Archives ), which is not the original, but a copy made in Montecassino around 1070 based on a model from the time of John.

In this letter

  • the Pope declares Greater Moravia to be a fiefdom of the Holy See , so he puts this kingdom on the same level as the East Franconian Empire in canonical law
  • the Pope confirms Method in his tasks and his function
  • the Pope confirms that he consecrated Wiching as Bishop of the Church in Nitra
  • the Pope orders that all clergy who oppose Method be expelled from Moravia
  • the Pope approves the use of the Slavic script ( Glagolitsa ) created by Constantine , and orders that the liturgy be kept in the Slavic language, with the exception that the Gospel should first be read in Latin. He explicitly states that God is to be praised not only in three languages ​​(i.e. Latin , Greek, and Hebrew ) but in all languages. This provision was later repealed.
  • the Pope approves that services for Svatopluk and his court are held in Latin, as Svatopluk prefers

literature

  • Epistolae (in quart) 7: Epistolae Karolini aevi (V). Edited by Erich Caspar , Gerhard Laehr u. a. Berlin 1912, pp. 222–224 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Lubomír E. Havlík (ed.): Magnae Moraviae fontes historici , Vol. 3, Brno 1969, therein letter No. 90 (Latin text with Czech translation).
  • Lubomír E. Havlík: The Roman Privilege "Industriae tuae" for Moravia . In: Cyrillomethodianum , 7, 23-37 (1983).
  • František Snopek: List papeže Hadriana II. V pannonské legendě a bulla Jana VIII. Industriae tuae, historicko-kritický pokus Františka Snopka s dodatkem: Pseudoisidorovy dekretaly a sv. Methoděj , Olomouc [1897].

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jindra Jarošová: Svati kacíři aneb Reportáž nejen z Velké Moravy . Radioservis, as, Prague 2000, ISBN 80-86212-09-2 .
  2. ^ Entry to the register in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
  3. ↑ Pope Stephan V forbade the use of the Slavic liturgy in the 9th century. The Latin liturgy became the sole norm in the Roman Catholic Church. Even at the time of the Reformation, the objection of the "three holy languages" was raised against Luther .

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