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10 unusual facts about papal bull


Ábalos, La Rioja

In an 1199 bull, through which privileges were granted to the San Millán de la Cogolla monastery, the name Dáualos appeared.

Aeterni Patris

This high regard was most especially evident during the Council of Trent, in which his Summa was laid “upon the altar, together with sacred Scripture and the decrees of the supreme Pontiffs.”

Antoni Clarassó i Terès

On August 13 of 1592, Pope Clement VIII approved a bull that decreed the secularization of the regular canons of the Order of Saint Augustine from all monasteries and priories in Catalonia, Roussillon and Cerdanya.

Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon

The publication of Tanzaï et Neadarne, histoire japonaise (1734), which contained veiled attacks on the Papal bull Unigenitus, the cardinal de Rohan and others, landed him briefly in the prison at Vincennes.

Exposcit debitum

Exposcit Debitum (Latin for The Duty requires) is the title of the Papal bull (or 'Apostolic Letter') that gave a second and final approval to the foundation of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).

Grodziec castle

The first confirmed reference of Grodziec comes from Pope Adrian IV's bull of April 23, 1155.

Mariology of the popes

He promulgated Marian congregations and supported the rosary culture with 19 Papal bulls.

Militia Dei

Militia Dei (Latin for Soldiers of God) is a Papal bull issued by Pope Eugene III in 1145 that consolidated the Knights Templar's independence from local clerical hierarchies by giving the Order the right to take tithes and burial fees and to bury their dead in their own cemeteries.

Ne Temere

Ne Temere (literally meaning "not rashly" in Latin) was a decree (named for its opening words) issued in 1907 of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Council regulating the canon law of the Church about marriage for practising Roman Catholics.

Papal bull

In 1535 the Florentine engraver Benvenuto Cellini was paid 50 scutes to recreate the metal matrix which would be used to impress the lead bulls of the Pope Paul III.


Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Syracuse

The formal dedication took place on October 3, 1999, with Syracuse Bishop James Moynihan reading the Papal bull and Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Costello acting as Celebrant.

Chassy, Saône-et-Loire

It is in April, 1164, that Pope Alexandre III, taken refuge in France, gives a bull to the Abbey of Saint-Martin d'Autun, confirming the patronage of the church to the advantage of this abbey:" Ecclesiam de Chariaco ".

Creator Omnium

Creator Omnium is papal bull issued by Pope Eugene IV in 1434 which excommunicates anyone who takes from the Canary Islands converted slaves.

Exultavit cor nostrum

Exultavit cor nostrum is a letter, also known as a Papal bull, from Pope Urban IV to the Mongol Ilkhanate leader Hulagu in 1263/1264.

Gaspard Terrasson

He appealed repeatedly against the papal bull Unigenitus; he was the anonymous author of twelve "Lettres sur la justice chrétienne" (Paris, 1733), in which, to support the Jansenists whom the bishops deprived of the sacraments, he endeavoured to prove the inutility of sacramental confession.

Hadrian the Seventh

In 1908 Rolfe resurrected the character of Hadrian for The Bull Against the Enemy of the Anglican Race, a violent attack on Lord Northcliffe and his newspaper, the Daily Mail, cast in the form of a Papal Bull issued by Hadrian VII.

History of the University of Heidelberg

Rupert I recognized the opportunity and initiated talks with the Curia, which ultimately lead to the creation of the Papal Bull for the Foundation of a university.

Kilcronaghan

On 29 March, 1609, a Papal Bull from Pope Paul V gave Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, the "advowson of certain Rectories and Perpetual Vicarages on the dioceses of Armagh and Derry, respectively".

Kirchlindach

The name Lindenacho (for Kirchlindach) first appeared in writing on 2 October 1185, when Pope Lucius III affirmed legal possession of the area to Erlach in a papal bull.

Lazarus Spengler

Spengler was one of Luther's supporters mentioned by name in Pope Leo X's bull Exsurge Domine, issued on June 15, 1520, threatening to excommunicate Luther and his followers if they did not submit to the pope.

Märstetten

In 1482 Pope Sixtus IV issued a papal bull which granted the village the right to hire a lay priest.

Medieval Inquisition

On May 15, Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bull entitled Ad extirpanda, which authorized the use of torture by inquisitors.

The first medieval inquisition, the episcopal inquisition, was established in the year 1184 by a papal bull entitled Ad abolendam, "For the purpose of doing away with."

Mirabeau, Vaucluse

It was in existence when a papal bull of Pope Gelasius II in 1199 confirmed Mirabel as a possession of the abbey Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Nepezzano

With regard to its ecclesiastical heritage, in 1188 Pope Clement III issued a Papal Bull placing Nepezzano, along with the San Martino church and associated land holdings, under the tutelage of the town of San Nicolò Tordino.

Pasquier Quesnel

The papal bull Unigenitus, in which no fewer than 101 sentences from the Réflexions morales were condemned as heretical, was obtained from Clement XI on September 8, 1713.

Plaisance of Antioch

Pope Urban may have issued a papal bull to Plaisance expressing his disapproval of her relationship, Audi filia et.

Psalmody Abbey

It was secularised in the 16th century by a bull of Pope Paul III and the buildings were largely destroyed during the war of the Camisards by Catinat, although its revenues continued to be drawn by commendatory abbots until the French Revolution.

Quo Primum

Quo Primum (from the first) is the name of an Apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull issued by Pope St. Pius V on 14 July 1570.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen

The present-day diocese was created by a papal bull of 6 August 1964, when the South Tyrolean parts of the Trento diocese around Bolzano and Merano were merged into the former Diocese of Brixen.

Sancho II of Portugal

Since the Church was the superpower of the 13th century, Pope Innocent IV felt free to issue a bull ordering the Portuguese to choose a new king to replace the so-called heretic.

Sylvester Gozzolini

In 1248, he obtained from Innocent IV, at Lyon, a papal bull confirming his order, and before his death founded a eleven monasteries in Italy.

Temple, Midlothian

Following 1312 and the Papal Bull (edict) entitled Ad providam, King Edward II of England abolished the Templars in both England and Scotland.

Titular Archbishop of Aquileia

In 1751 with the 6 July bull Injunctio Nobis, the Pope Benedict XIV divided the patriarchate into two archdioceses; one at Udine, with Venetian Friuli for its territory, the other at Gorizia, with jurisdiction over Austrian Friuli.

University of Valencia

At the request of Jaime I the Conqueror, Pope Innocent IV in 1246, authorized by a Bull the establishment of estudis generals in Valencia.

William II of Agen

Among other things, he was tasked by Pope Urban IV in 1263 by the papal bull Exultavit cor nostrum to investigate the legitimacy of an alleged ambassador with the Mongol Empire, John the Hungarian.