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4 unusual facts about Forum Popilii


Forum Popilii

In 1073 during the episcopate of Pietro, Peter Damian went to Forlimpopoli to reform ecclesiastical disciplines, and on this occasion is thought to have delivered a sermon on St. Rufillus, which Vecchiazzani, an historian of this city, claims to have discovered at Rimini in the Library of St. Jerome.

This city had much to suffer from the Lombards, and in 665 or 670, while the people were assembled in the cathedral for the ceremonies of Holy Saturday, it was suddenly attacked by King Grimoald, who pillaged it and butchered numbers of the people and clergy.

Forum Popilii (Italian: Forlimpopoli) is a Catholic titular see.

During the 14th century, Romagna was at the mercy of petty tyrants and Forlimpopoli was ruled by the Ordelaffi of Forlì.



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