Note 497 — Chapter I · JURISDICTION

This follows from the Bull Clem. X, Superna, 21 July, 1670, already mentioned, partly printed in Gury, Ed. Ratisb. II. ad n. 559. According to the Council of Trent, all those lay persons are free from episcopal jurisdiction who belong to the household of (real and exempted) Religious Orders. But in order that the servants of a monastery may enjoy this privilege, the following conditions must concur: (1) they must really serve the religious of the monastery; (2) they must live within the inclosure at the expense of the monastery; (3) they must be under obedience to the religious of the Order; this obedience need not be the obedience of the religious; it must, however, be such as servants owe to their masters. Cf. Trid. Sess. XXIV. cp. II. de ref.; Barbosa, de Parocho cum animadvers.; Giraldi, p. 2, cp. 20, n. 12; Gury, l. c. ad 562.