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PROVINCIAL COUNCILS. 



displayed in providing against the necessities of the times, as 

 of the coUeclion of the decrees that were promulgated. That 

 they served as a fundamental help to the council which was 

 afterwards celebrated by Santo Toribio, appears by a compa- 

 rison between the decrees of each of the councils. 



On the demise of Loaysa, he was succeeded by Don Toribio 

 Alfonso De Mogrovejo, who had no sooner reached Lima 

 than he assembled a council, which entered on its delibera- 

 tions in the month of August 1582, at which time Don Mar- 

 tin Enriquez was viceroy of Peru. The bishops of Cusco, of 

 Santiago de Chile, of la Imperial (after the destruction of that 

 city, he was translated to la Concepcion), of Tucuman, and 

 of la Plata, were present at this council, which was condu6led 

 v»rith much harmony and tranquillity, and with a profound 

 knowledge of the subje6ts that were there treated and or- 

 dained. Its proceedings were terminated at the close of the 

 follov/ing year, with the same concord and union of senti- 

 ment as at the commencement. This council may be con- 

 sidered as having established the code of the ecclesiastical dis- 

 cipline of Peru, and, indeed, of all Spanish South America. 

 It enjoined, that each of the individuals enrolled in the diife- 

 rent parishes, whether Indian or Spaniard, should have in 

 his possession a copy of its a6ts, on penalty of a fine of a 

 hundred crowns, and the dread of the greater excommuni- 

 cation. 



Besides the decrees, the above council published a catechism 

 of the christian do6lrines, in the Spanish and Indian tongues, 

 in dialogues written in a clear and perspicuous style, and con^ 

 sequently well adapted to the comprehension of the people. 

 It likewise published a smaller catechism in questions and an- 

 swers ; 



