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 where the Reunion of the Latin and Greek Church had been made. The Golden Diploma of this union written both in Latin and Greek, and subscribed unto by the hands of the Pope and Cardinals on the one side; and by the Emperour of Constantinople, with the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the Greek Bishops on the other side; and authenticated by the Leaden Seal of the Pope, and the Golden Seal of the said Emperor, is kept in the Archives, or Registers of Bologna. In this Council both the Pope of Rome Eugenius the IV. and Paleologus the Emperour of Constantinople, were present, with the Cream of Bishops, both of the Eastern and Western Churches; and in this Councel not onely the Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Father and the Son was vindicated; but also Purgatory was proved to the Greeks out of their own Greek Fathers, as well as out of the Latin Fathers; and divers other points of Ceremony and practice were asserted & made good. Unto all which the said Emperour