Folia Theologica et Canonica 3. 25/17 (2014)

IUS CANONICUM - Szabolcs Anzelm Szuromi, O.Praem., Crystallization process of the ecclesiastical discipline regarding the sacrament of extreme unction and its canon law historical sources

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holy anointment, which is the vigil or the feast day of St. Mathew apostle.31 It was at the Second Council of Lyon (1274) where the most decisive ecclesiastical disciplinary position, summing up the Church’s standpoint concerning the holy anointment, was pronounced; the Council explicitly adopted it in among the other sacraments.32 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)33, who died right before the Second Council of Lyon, in the Summa contra Gentiles underlines as the effect of the holy anointment the complete recovery of the soul from the wounds caused by sins, and the preparation of the Christian into God’s glory.34 Among the regional councils we must highlight the Council of Buda (Hungary) in 1279, under the influence of the Second Council of Lyon, whose canon 21 contains a prescription concerning the blessing of the holy oil

.35 Besides, from among the 12th-13th century provincial councils we would like to refer to the Council of Toulouse in 1119 (Can. 9)36, the Council of Tours in 1163 (Can. 10)37, as well as the Council of Trier in 1227 (Can. 2

)38 and the Council of Lincoln in 1236 (Cann. 9, 13, 14, 17)3’, that had explicit provisions for the appropriate administration of the holy anointment for the dying (including even the liturgical vestment), and joins it with the sacrament of penance, or with those sacraments, whose administration takes place with holy oil

.40 41 Also Gulielmus Durantis (f 1296) in his famous work, in the Speculum Iudiciale*', writes in a separate rubric about the holy anointment, which rubric deals primarily with the bless31 X 5. 40. 14: Friedberg II. 915.

32 Denzinger, H. - Bannwart, C. (ed.), Enchiridion Symbolorum. Definitionen et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum, Friburgi Brisgoviae 1928.17 203 (n. 465 [388]): Tenet etiam et docet eadem sancta Romana Ecclesia, septem esse ecclesiastica sacramenta, unum scilicet baptisma, de quo dictum supra; aliud est sacramentum confirmationis, quod per manuum impositionem episcopi conferunt, chrismando renatos; aliud est poenitentia, aliud Eucharistia, aliud sacramentum ordinis, aliud est matrimonium, aliud extrema unctio, quae secundum doctrinam beati Iacobi infirmantibus adhibetur.

33 Rouillard, Ph., The Anointing of the Sick in the West, in Chupungco, A. J. (ed.), Handbook for Liturgical Studies, IV. 171-190, especially 176.

34 Liber de Ventate Catholicae Fidei contra errores Infidelium seu Summa contra Gentiles, III. Taurini-Romae 1961. Lib. IV, Cap. 73.

35 PÉTERFFY, C., Sacra concilia ecclesiae Romano-Catholicae in Regno Hungáriáé celebrata ab anno Christi MXVI. usque ad annum MDCCXV, Posonii 1741.1. 111.

36 Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, ed. I.D. Mansi, I-XXXI, Floren tinae-Ve- netiis 1757-1798, new edition with continuation: L. Petit - J. M. Martin, I-LX, Paris-Leip- zig-Arnheim 1899-1927 (Hereafter: Mansi) XXI. 227.

37 Mansi XXI. 1183.

38 Mansi XXIII. 27.

39 Mansi XXIII. 419-421.

40 Szuromi, Sz. A., Medieval Canon Law - Sources and Theory - (Bibliotheca Instituti Postgradu- alis Iuris Canonici Universitatis Catholicae de Petro Pázmány nominatae HI/12), Budapest 2009. 168.

41 Cf. Erdő, P., Geschichte der Wissenschaft vom kanonischen Recht (Kirchenrechtliche Bibliothek 4), Berlin 2006. 97.