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English[en]
8. This consciousness of Our duty grew all the more pressing as the belief gradually became more and more general that intervention on Our part would assist greatly in bringing about a more general peace among men, a peace which, like yourselves, We now desire, as We have always desired it, even from the first day when We, not by reason of any merits on Our part but because of a hidden decree of Divine Providence itself, were raised to the sublime office of the Common Father of all the faithful.
Latin[la]
Etenim post teterrimum bellum post que illustria in patriam facinora ab utroque catholico clero, iniuriarum oblito et patriae caritatis unice memori, in oculis omnium patrata, desiderium cotidie acrius exarserat religiosae ipsius pacis, quam lex discidii turbaverat, ita instaurandae, ut aequior Ecclesiae catholicae in Gallia, sub legis praesidio, condicio fieret.