Folia Theologica et Canonica 6. 28/20 (2017)

IUS CANONICUM - José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez, Raymond of Penyafort decretalist

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JOSÉ MIGUEL VIEJO-XIMÉNEZ

and probably also in Barcelona (Studium arabicum from 1259 to 1266)74. On July 15, 1260, Alexander IV granted «dilecto filio fratris Raymundo de Pennaforti» the power to send, «auctoritate apostolica», missionaries to Tunisia «et alias barbaras nationes, tarn in conversione infedelium quam etiam in corrobo- ratione fidelium»75. In this context, historians give some credibility to Pedro Marsilio (f 1318), for whom Raymond, «Conversionem etiam infidelium ar- denter desiderans», would have asked Thomas Aquinas the writing of a work «contra infidelium errores»76.

Raymond of Penyafort died on January 6, 1275 (1274 anno incamationis)77 78.

II. Teachings and Influence

I. Fame of Sanctity

«Secutus est honor regius morientem». According to the Vita antiqua, Alfonso X of Castile (1252-1284) and James I of Aragon presided over the funerals™. Few canonists have enjoyed similar recognition. The Christians jurists whose sanctitiy of life and prestige aroused a unanimous movement for their canonization are also quite few. The canonization process of the Catalonian Domin- can started four years after his death, when the Provincial Council of Tarragona sent a request to that effect to Nicholas III (1277-1280). It was December, 13, 1279. The subsequent efforts of Peter III of Aragon (1276-1285) had as little success as it had the petitions of the counselors of the city of Barcelona, the counselors of the main cities of Aragon, the Friar Preachers of Barcelona and the Dominican Priors of Catolonia and Aragon sent to the pope from 1282 to 1298. In 1317, a Provincial Council held in Tarragona and the Courts of Perpignan reiterated the request to John XXII (1316-1334). Peter IV of Aragon ( 1336— 1387) insisted before Pope Clement VI (1342-1352). Finally. Philip II King of Spain (1556-1598) urged Clement VIII (1592-1605) to complete the process. Raymond of Penyafort was canonized in 1601: «sanctum esse definivimus, ac Sanctorum Confessorum numero, et catalogo adscribendum esse decrevimus»79.

74 Cf. Ribes Montané, P., San Rámán de Penyafort, 46-57; Cortabarría Beitia, Á., San Rámán de Penyafort y las escuelas dominicanas de lenguas, in Escritos del Vedat 1 (1977) 125-154. Ibanez, J. F., Funcionamiento pedagògico y proyeccián cultural de los estudios de àrabe y de hebreo promovidospor San Rámán de Penyafort, in Escritos del Vedat 1 (1977) 155-175.

75 Cf. Valls I Taberner, F., Diplomatari, num. XXIV.

76 Cf. Rius Serra, J., Diplomatario, 341.

77 Rius Serra, J., Diplomatario, num. CXXXIV. Collell, A. (ed.), Raymundiana, nums. 14 and 15.

78 Cf. Balme, F. -Paban, C. — Collomb, J. (ed.), Raymundiana, I, num. XI, p. 37.

74 The requests are collected in Rius Serra, J., Diplomatario, nums. CXXXV, CXXXVI- CXXXVII, CXXXIX-CXLI and CXLIII-CXLV. Clemens’ Decree of canonization was printed