Can 1144. Sacramentalia sunt res aut actiones quibus Ecclesia, in aliquam Sacramentorum imitationem, uti solet ad obtinendos ex sua impetratione effectus praesertim spirituales.- Code of Canon Law/1917, c.1144, in Codex Iuris Canonici Pii X Pontificis Maximi, Benedicti Papae XV Auctoritate Promulgatus, ed. Petro Gasparri (Westminster, MD: Newman Press, 1963), 326.
Canon 1144 from the 1917 code uses slightly more broad language when describing sacramentals. Defined here as "res aut actiones", things or actions. In the new code they use the phrase, "signa sacra".
I think this change indicates an attempt at a further specification. Arguably this limits sacramentals to certain things which are explicitly sacred signs, rather than any blessed thing.
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