Editing Pope Leo XIII (section)

=== Provincial council ===

Pecci called a provincial council in 1849 to reform the religious life in his dioceses in [[Spoleto]] and it was in this council that the need for a [[Syllabus of Errors]] was discussed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lang |first=Ariella |title=A Modern Inquisition and the Unification of Italy |publisher=Palgrave MacMillan |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-349-37407-6 |edition=1st |location=United Kingdom |pages=178 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=1888 |title=Notices of books |journal=The Dublin Review |volume=104 |pages=483}}</ref> He invested in enlarging the seminary for future priests and in hiring new and prominent professors, preferably [[Thomist]]s. He called on his brother [[Giuseppe Pecci]], a noted Thomist scholar, to resign his professorship in Rome and to teach in Perugia instead.{{Sfn|Kühne|1880|p=76}} His own residence was next to the seminary, which facilitated his daily contacts with the students.
[[File:Archbishop Pecci aids the poor.jpg|thumb|Archbishop Pecci aids the poor in Perugia.]]