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PISA, COUNCIL OF (1409) . The great
spring of 1408, the state of affairs being desperate, the idea arose of assembling a council to effect a union without the co-operation of the popes. The initiative came from those cardinals who had one after the other seceded either from Gregory XII. or Benedict XIII. They were forestalled by the popes, who eachlatter to Perpignan, so the dissident cardinals sent out antedated letters inviting Christendom to assemble at Pisa on the 25th of March
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The day after the opening of the council, proceedings were started against the two popes, who, it was agreed, were to be eliminated. An act of accusation, containing in 37 articles the chief
In order to complete their task the cardinals present at Pisa, authorized by delegation of the council, shut themselves up in conclave , and elected one of their number, Peter Philarges, cardinal of Milan , as the new pope
Originally the council of Pisa was to have occupied itself not only with effecting the union, but also with the reform cf the Church. As a matter of fact, it confined itself to expressing certain desiderata in a " libellus supplicatorius " which it submitted to the new pope
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See Jacques Lenfant
Valois , La France et le grand schisme d'occident, iv. 3-107, 175 seq. (Paris, 1902). (N. V.)End of Article: PISA, COUNCIL OF (1409) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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