<hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:12pt">Our research project focuses on one of the most active bodies of the Roman Curia – the complex of organs and authorities that constitute the administrative apparatus of the Holy See - between the modern and contemporary ages: the Congregation of the Council, which we affectionately call “SCC”</hi><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6" target="ftn6" /> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:12pt">. This dicastery was appointed for more than 350 years to oversee the correct interpretation and implementation of the Council of Trent</hi><ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="7" target="ftn7" /> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:12pt" xml:space="preserve"> and the administration of justice around all disciplinary matters contained in the council and later on other papal laws. The Congregation of the Council was composed of cardinals and other personnel and met periodically to discuss and decide legal cases that came to it from all over the Catholic world. It had consultative, judicial and gracious functions and its jurisdiction ideally extended to the whole world. Based on the 1.5 km of the SCC archive, preserved in the Vatican Archive, the group has compiled a dataset describing approximately 35,000 </hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rend="italic" style="font-size:12pt">positiones</hi> <hi xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" style="font-size:12pt" xml:space="preserve">, that is judicial cases that took place in front of the SCC between 1564 and 1680 and involved thousands of people and institutions from all over the Catholic world and beyond. </hi>