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

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

RAYMOND OF PENYAFORT DECRETALIST

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natione spirituali; (viii) De cognatione legali; (ix) De impedimento criminis; (x) De dispari cid tir, (xi) De impedimento violentine sive metus\ (xii) De impedimento ordinis; (xiii) De impedimento ligationis; (xiv) De publicae honestatis iustitia; (xv) De affin it at e; (xvi) De impotentia coeundr, (xvii) De impedimento feriarum; (xviii) De matrimonio contra interdiction Ecclesiae contractor (xix) Qualiter et quando midier potest aliquem petere in virum, vel restitutionem viri, si fuerit spoliata, et e converso', (xx) De divortio propter consanguinitatem vel aliud perpetuum impedimentunr, (xxi) Qualiter accusatio sit facienda in matrimonio', (xxii) De divortio propter fornicationem; (xxiii) De numero tes- tium tarn in matrimonio quam in aids casibus', (xxiv) Qui ßlii sint legitimi, et qui notr, (xxv) De dotibus et donationibus propter nuptias*3.

After the SdC was reviewed. Friar Raymond answered the thirty-four questions laid out by Ranoldo, prior of the Dominicans in the Province of Dacia between 1228 and 1238. Some of the issues were related to the Order of Preachers - for example, the scope of the master’s power. Others, being more of a pastoral nature, outlined the problems faced by prelates and confessors of Dacia in dealing with excommunicated people, apostates and priests’ concubines. Raymond also included explanations on the celebration of the Eucharist, the granting of indulgences, and ecclesiastical benefits. In his concise answers, Raymond mentions some of the «decretales novas» of Gregory IX («[...] et respice décrétaient novam, extra, de sententia excommunicationis, Cum voluntate»), as well as passages of the second version of the SdC («[...] de hiis tarnen notavi in Summa de penitentia»)44.

4. Barcelona - Bologna - Paris: Master of the Dominicans

Some chronicles suggest that the intense pace at the Curia affected Raymond’s health45. The explanation seems plausible. On the contrary, there is no evidence that Gregory wanted to reward his services with the archbishopric of Tarragona, a position that the Dominican would have rejected46. The last issues that the 4

4-’ On the SdM. cf. de Heredia y Valle, I. P., La Summa de matrimonio de san Raimundo de Pe- nafort, in Longo, C. (a cura di), Magister Raimundus, 111-164.

44 Cf. Creytens, R„ Operetta sconosciuta di Raimutulo da Penafort: «Responso ad quaesita fir. Rannidi O.P. provinciális Dacie», in Escrìtos del Vedat 10 (1980) 141-154.

45 So the Brevis abstractio de vita sancii Raimundi (s. XV): «Post vero multos labores quos sanctus Raimundus pro ecclesia sustinuit incidir in egritudinem magnam. Cui medici dixerunt quod si volebat mortis vitare periculum, oportebat eum ad terram propriam, id est Barchinonae redire.» (Collell, A. fed.], Raymundiana, in Analecta sacra Tarraconensia 30 f 19571 63-95, num. 16).

46 Cf. Giovanni Colonna’s biography and, in more detail the Vita antiqua bajo under the title «Quomodo humiliter Archiepiscopatum renuit» (Balme, F. - Paban, C. - Collomb, J. (ed.), Raymundiana, I, nums. IV and XI, pp. 6, 23-24).