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The next morning, the signory having decreed the prior's.
The council of Trent, opened in 1545 and closed in 1563, decreed a formal purgation of the church, affirmed the fundamental doctrines of Catholicism, strengthened the papal supremacy, and inaugurated that movement of resistance which is known as the Counter-Reformation.
In 1844 he decreed the emancipation of the gipsies.
The equality of all free Hottentots and other free persons of colour with the white colonists was decreed in that year (1820).
Impatient at the slow progress made by the besieging force, he decreed a levee en masse in the department of Puy-de-Dome, collected an army of 60,000 men, and himself led them to Lyons.