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168 GOVERNMENT OF THE LEGION CHAPTER 28
which would significantly affect the core attendance at the
meeting, would require formal sanction by the Concilium,
whether the Regia is affiliated directly to the Concilium or to
a Senatus.
8. In Roman days the Regia was the residence and office of
the Pontifex Maximus; later it designated a king’s capital or
court.
“To be many and distinct in his attributes, yet, after all, to be but
one — to be sanctity, justice, truth, love, power, wisdom, to be at
once each of these as if he were nothing but it, as if the rest were not
— this implies in the Divine Nature an infinitely sovereign and
utterly incomprehensible order, which is an attribute as wonderful as
any, and the result of all the others.” (Bl. John Henry Newman: Order,
the Witness and Instrument of Unity)

4. THE SENATUS
1. A council designated by the Concilium to exercise
authority over the Legion of Mary in a country shall be called
a Senatus. It must be affiliated directly to the Concilium.
In countries where, by reason of size or for other reasons, a
single Senatus would not be adequate, two or more Senatus
may be approved, each of which shall depend directly on the
Concilium and shall exercise authority over the Legion in the
area assigned to it by the Concilium.
2. When Senatus status has been conferred on an existing
council it shall continue to exercise its original functions in
addition to its new responsibilities (see section 1, paragraph
19 of this chapter on Government of the Legion).
Membership of the Senatus shall consist of: (a) the officers
of every legionary body directly affiliated to the Senatus and
(b) the members of the council on which Senatus status has
been conferred, when such is the case.
3. The Spiritual Director of a Senatus shall be appointed by
the Bishops of the dioceses in which that Senatus has
jurisdiction.
4. The elections of officers of directly affiliated councils are
subject to ratification by the Senatus. These officers have the
duty to attend Senatus meetings unless circumstances (for
example, distance, etc.) prevent them.