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unusual facts about Council of Basel



Angelo Geraldini

He went on missions to the Council of Basel in 1482, and to the court of John II of Aragon, leading to a Spanish ministerial appointment and close involvement in the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs.

Consecration and entrustment to Mary

However, supportive arguments by William of Ware and Duns Scotus, Franciscans, and general belief among Catholics made the doctrine more acceptable, so that the Council of Basel supported it in the 15th century, but the Council of Trent sidestepped the question.

Execrabilis

Encouraged by this decree, a rump of bishops defiantly continued to meet at Basel even after Pope Eugene IV had transferred the main body of the Council of Basel to Ferrara.

Louis of Teck

At the Council of Basel, he proposed that Eugenius was sentenced to death.


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