the streets in fhmt of the priest who carries tbe in « precious box, where it can be seen under a held by four laymen of rank. A crowd of people closes the procession. — Bock, Diet, a. t. ; C&^ ott, Ddmeation of Bomamtm, bk. ii, cb. vii ; Sk^ Handb, d, ChrisU. AUertk&mer, and references then; and for the Romish view, Butler, FeoMia ami ^«■^ treatise xi.
Corpus Doctrtnse, the name given to collections of writings which were intended to bar* authority in the Protestant churches of Germany. Tit most important of these collections are the foUowing: 1. Corpns PkUUpptcmii, also called Scaxmietms or Mh- mcum (published in 1660, foL and often). It cootais- ed the three general symbols (the Apostolic, Nlcnaa, and Athanasian), the Confession of Augsbuiig (the /ars- riaUi) and the Apology, and Melanchtfaon*8 Lod Com- mwMSS^ Egeamm Ordincmdorum^ and reap, ad artie, Bs- varic. It was considered as crypto-Calvinisttc, aei violently denounced by the rigorous Latberana. The Elector of Saxony, in 1569, threatened wttb depoaitka all who revised to teach in accerdaaoe with it, but subsequently this decree was repealed, and a nnBb«r of defenders of the work were tried and imprisoned, i. The Corpus Doetruta Pomeramam had the same c<b> tents as the preceding one. 8. The CcrpmB Doctrim Prufenictcm (Prussian), also called B^t^iiio doebim so- duUutictf^ was published in 1667, and directed agaiasl the Osiandrian errors. A decree of the xntuce, in 15C7, prescribed it as a rule of faith for all times to ocaat^ and declared that none who reftiaed to aco^it it dwoU receive office.
Corpus Evaiigelio6mm (J>ody of the EamsfR- cal), formerly the collective name of the eTsngd&sl states of Germany. The first league was made be^ tween Saxony and Hesse in 1528. Other erangdical states followed, and at the Protestation of Spires in 1529, the Corpus EvangeUcorun was organized. Id the Nuremberg religious peace in 1532, it entered as soc& in relation with the Corpus CcttAoHcorum (q. ▼.). The head-quarters of the latter were in the electorate of Mayence, while Saxony stood at the head of the evan- gelical states. At the close of the sixteenth centmr. Frederic III, elector of the Palatinate, having beeoof Protestant, became head of the Corpus Evtu^eBcormi; but after he had lost all his states in. the Thirty T«sn^ War, Sweden took the lead, which was, however, r^ stored to Saxony by the Diet of 1658. After the eleo- toral house of Saxony had become Romanist, tbe lead of the Corpus EtfongelicoruM was claimed by sevcnl other Protestant states; yet it remained finally with Saxony, it being, however, stipulated tliat the env«y of Saxony should receive his instructiona, not fzam the elector, but ttom the college of the privy couneil at Dresden. The Corpus Eoangdicorum ended with the dissolution of the German empire in 1806. — ^Heneg, Beal-Enetfkiop, iii, 156; BOlow, UOer ^esdL v. Ferf, <fes Corp. Evang. (1795).
Corpus Juris Canonld. a collection of the sources of the Church law of the Roman Catbflillf Church, consisting of old canons, resolutions of coun- cils, decrees of popes, and writings of Church fisthen. The collection gradually arose firom the desire to haT« for the decision of ecclesiastical cases a law4M»k of equally general authority as the (Corpus Jurig CisiBs possessed in the province of civil legislatioa. Its component parts were originally compiled in stxkt i^ itation of the Corpus Juris (XviHs.
I. ComponaU Parts, — Generally recognised as parti of the Corpus Juris Cemonid, and constituting what ii called the Corpus Juris Clausum^ are the Deerttmm Gradani (1151), the decretals of Gregoiy IX (12$0, the Uber Sextus of Boniface YIII (1298X and tkt ClemewUnes (1818). Disputed is the authority of tbs two collections of Extravoffontes of pope John XXH (1340) and of the ExtraoagaUm Commnmm (U8i).
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Generally reacted are now the 47 Cantmei pcBnUeiUiales tken finom the 8unma de Caiibus Conacientia of car- Jnal di Asti {''Summa AtteMna'*), and the Canonet ipotiolorum^ both of which were, in the earlier editions f the Corpus Juris Qmomci, given as an appendix to he DecrHmm GraHam, The same is the case with he IfuHhstitmes Juris Ccmomti, and with the Liber feplMUM of Peter Mathews of Lyons.
II. Ths Formation qf the ColUctim,—Thib name of lorpus Juris Cammici was earlj given to the DeerHum TraHam in distinction from the Corpus Juris CioiHs, )at firom the fifteenth centory it became cnstomary to ipply the name to the collection of the law-books ibove ennmerated. Printed editions of the collection rith the title of Corpus Juris Canonici do not occnr be- ore the sixteenth centtuy. Among those who are nost noted for spending oitical labor on the editing >f the Corpus Juris Canomd are Anthony Demochares ;ed. Paria, 1560-52, without gioss(B, and Paris, 1561, 8 rols. foL, with glossm\ who completed the indefinite pefarenoes in the headings of the Decretum by more iccorate statements; Charies Dumoolin, or (as he called himself with a Latin name) Car. Molinans (Ly- ons, 1554, 4to, and 1559, fol.), who designated the sev- sral passages of the Decretum (with the exception of the Palea) with notes ; Le Conte, or Contios (Antw. 1569-1571, 4 vols. 8vo), who from older nnprinted col- lections added, in particular in the decretids of Greg- ory IX, the partes dedsa which had been sappressed by Raymnnd of Pennaforte ; the Corredores Bomani (q. v.), whose work (Rome, 1582, 5 vols, fol.) is a tom- ing-point of the history of the Corpus; the brothers FTan9ois and Pierre Pithon, whose valoable notes were used by Le Pelletier in his edition (Paris, 1687 ; again Lpz. 1690 and 1705 ; and Torin, 1746, 2 vols, fol.) ; Justus Henning Bdhmer (Halle, 1747, 2 vols. 4to) ; Aem. Lad. Richter (Leipz. 1888-1889, 1 vol hi 2 parts, 4to), who left out all the appendixes having no legal authority. For fiiller information on the component parts of the Corpus Juris Canomd, and for their legal authority, see article Caitom Law (p. 87 sq.). See dbo Wetzer u.Welte, Kirehm-Lex, ii, 886. Corptui jQZis CivniB (hod^ of Civil Law). See