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2 unusual facts about Romanus Pontifex


Afonso V of Portugal

This approval of slavery was reaffirmed and extended in the Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455 (also by Nicholas V).

Sublimus Dei

In the bulls Dum diversas (1452) and Romanus Pontifex (1455) the right of taking pagans as perpetual slaves was granted to Christians.



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