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...occasion. For it was the Council of Nicaea in 325 which scotched "the most dreadful heresy which has ever threatened the Christian Church." This was the Arian heresy that Jesus Christ was not divine but merely the most perfect of God's creatures. In committing to Cardinal Tacci Porcelli the task of due celebration, Pope Piux XI wrote: '"What heartfelt interest We feel . . . can be easily understood by anyone with even moderate knowledge of ecclesiastical history. . . . And may God grant that this commemoration help indeed, as is Our heartfelt wish, to bring about that those Oriental peoples...