Editing Pope Urban VIII (section)

====Policy on private revelation====
In the papal bull ''[[Sanctissimus Dominus Noster]]'' of 13 March 1625, Urban instructed Catholics not to venerate the deceased or represent them in the manner of saints without Church sanction. It required a bishop's approval for the publication of private revelations. Since the nineteenth century, it has become common for books of popular devotion to carry a disclaimer. One read in part: "In obedience to the decrees of Urban the Eighth, I declare that I have no intention of attributing any other than a purely human authority to the miracles, revelations, favours, and particular cases recorded in this book..."<ref>{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0fqKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 | access-date = 30 November 2017 | title= Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture |first=Diana | last = Walsh Pasulka | publisher = Oxford University Press | date= 2015| page=127| isbn = 9780195382020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=283| title = Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQ6qBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 | editor-first1=Stephanie |editor-last1=Kirk |editor-first2= Sarah |editor-last2= Rivett | publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press | date= 2014 |first=David A. |last= Boruchoff | chapter = Martín de Murúa, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, and the Contested Uses of Saintly Models in Writing Colonial American History| isbn = 9780812290288 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| first= Mary Fabyan | last= Windeatt | publisher = TAN Books | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=O7XHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT199 | title = Saint Benedict: The Story of the Father of the Western Monks | date= 2013| isbn= 9781618904614 }}</ref>