_Second General Division, from Septuagesima till Easter_:--The death of Christ preceded by the events of His public life, His fasting, temptation, preaching, miracles, passion and death. _Third General Division, from Easter to Pentecost_:--The Resurrection, the Ascension, Pentecost. _Fourth General Division, from Pentecost till Advent_, the termination of the Church's year. The mystic life of Christ in the Church, which will end on the Judgment Day. These divisions make up the four parts of the Roman Breviary. The first part, _Pars Prima_, contains the Pontifical Bull, _Quod a nobis_, of Pope Pius V. (1568). It states:--1. That the cause of the new edition was to remove the regrettable variety in the public liturgy. 2. It recalls the labours of Pope Paul IV., Pius IV., and Pius V. for the same end. 3. It announces the abolition of the too-abbreviated Breviary of Quignonez and of all those which have not, for two hundred years preceding 1568, an authentic approbation or a lawful custom. 4. It gives permission to those using such breviaries to adopt the Roman Breviary. 5. It withdraws all privileges in respect to other breviaries. 6. It declares the Roman Breviary obligatory on all except those mentioned (_vide 3, supra_). 7. Even bishops are forbidden to make the smallest change in the new Breviary. 8. The recitation of offices from other breviaries does not fulfil the obligation of those bound to breviary recitation. 9. Bishops are requested to introduce the new Breviary. 10. The Pope suppressed the obligation of reciting on certain days the little Office of the Blessed Virgin, the Office of the Dead, the Penitential and the Gradual Psalms, 11. But he recommends their recitation on certain fixed days and grants an indulgence for the practice. 12. Where the custom of reciting the little Office, in choir, exists, it should be retained. 13. The appointment of the time for the adoption of the Breviary is obligatory. 14. Prohibition, under pain of excommunication, is made against those who print, distribute or receive copies of this Breviary without lawful authority. 15. The authentic publication and obligation of the Bull. The second document in the _Pars Prima_ of the Roman Breviary is the Bull _Divino Afflatu_, issued by Pope Pius X, on 1st November, 1911. It tells us:--