1852

Aug. 19. Orvieto. At the request of the prior and brothers of the Holy Sepulchre, Pope Honorius III takes their church and its possessions under papal protection. He refers especially to churches of the Holy Sepulchre at Acre, Tyre and Antioch, and those in the Latin empire, southern Italy, Sicily, Iberia, Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia [Sclavonia], Germany, France, Lombardy, Tuscany and England; and to tenements [tenimenta] at Tripoli and Gibelech, and a casale on Cyprus, together with a possession in Moravia. He confirms liberties acquired before the Fourth Lateran Council; the right to obtain chrism and holy oils from Latin diocesan bishops, or even from others; the ban on any brother leaving the community without licence from the patriarch or the prior; and freedom from the consequences of interdict.