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Visiting Trent: The City and the Council that Shaped the Catholic Counter-Reformation

In this episode of Bret in Italy, we walk the streets of Trento — the mountain city best known as the home of the Council of Trent (1545–1563). Why was this borderland city chosen? What happened at the Council? Where did the sessions take place? And why does it still matter for the Catholic Church today? Join me as we explore Trent’s unique history: Germanic roots, medieval prince-bishops, centuries under Austrian rule, and the shifting borders after World War I. Trento has always been a crossroads — political, cultural, and spiritual — and this is exactly why it was chosen to confront the greatest crisis in the second millennium of Church history. Over 18 turbulent years, through wars, plagues, and fierce debate, The Council met primarily at Santa Maria Maggiore and celebrated major liturgies in the Cathedral of San Vigilio. The Council of Trent took place throughout 18 turbulent years. War, plague, politics, and intense debate constantly interrupted the work. Meeting primarily in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore and celebrating solemn liturgies at the Cathedral of San Vigilio, the council sought to respond to the Protestant Reformation by clarifying Catholic teaching. The council clarified doctrine, reformed clergy discipline, strengthened catechesis, shaped seminary training, and articulated teaching on the sacraments, the Mass, and the life of faith. A lasting result was the standardization of the Roman liturgy—known as the Tridentine Mass (from the Latin name of the city Tridentum) — which remained the norm until the reforms after Vatican II. From Trent we connect to the two subsequent councils: • Vatican I (1869–1870) — faith and reason, papal infallibility, interrupted by war. • Vatican II (1962–1965) — not a rejection of Trent, but a renewal for proclaiming the same faith in a modern world. These three councils reveal a continuity. The history of the Church is one that wrestles, reforms, and learns — always guided, mysteriously and patiently, by the Holy Spirit. From Trent, to Vatican I, to Vatican II, the Church continues to grow into the truth she has always professed: Jesus Christ is Lord, He remains with His Church, and the faithful are called to holiness and to proclaim this message to the whole world. Join me as I walk the streets of Trento, visit the key sites of the Council, and discover how geography, politics, and faith converged here to shape Catholic history.