Calixtus III,
European Treaties bearing on the History of the United States and its Dependencies to 1648
(1917)
“ So that the prior major, for the time being, of the said military order may and ought to collate and provide to all and singular ecclesiastical benefices, with or without cure of souls, and whether tenable by seculars or by regulars of whatsoever orders, founded and instituted, or to be founded or instituted, in the said islands, lands, and places, of whatever nature and value the benefices are or shall be, as often as they may fall vacant in the future. ”
