Note 120 — V. ENFORCEMENT OF CELIBACY.

Panar. Hæres. 78.—At the time of the Reformation the Bonosiac heresy naturally was revived. In 1523, at the Diet of Nuremberg, the Papal orator accused Osiander “quod prædicasset Beatam Virginem Mariam post Christi partum non mansisse Virginem” (Spalatini Annal. ann. 1523), but Osiander found few followers. At the Colloquy of Poissy, in 1561 the learned Claude d’Espense, doctor of Sorbonne, in arguing that there were many things the authority of which rested solely on tradition, and yet which were admitted as undoubted by all parties, instanced “que la Vierge Marie demoura vierge après l’enfantement, et plusieurs autres semblables par conséquent; ce qui a esté baillé de main en main par nos pères, ores qu’il ne soit escript, n’est pourtant moins certain et approuvé que s’il estoit temoigné par l’Escripture” (Pierre de la Place, Liv. VII.).