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 364 It is noteworthy that Choupin's two chief instances belong to the pontificate of Pius IX. Historical research enables the same writer to add two more.

3. The condemnation of the five propositions of Jansen by Innocent X. in 1653.

4. The Constitution of Benedict XII. in 1336.

This last affirms that departed saints who need no further cleansing possess an immediate intuitive vision of the divine nature.

To these many theologians, says Choupin, add the Encyclical Quanta Cura of Pius IX. in 1864.

On the other hand, Carson in his Reunion Essays says:—

Certainly if the intrinsic value of a document be any witness to its Infallibility no papal utterance has better claim to be an instance of that stupendous prerogative than the famous letter of Leo the Great