Italy
Boniface VIII, 1294-1303
- 1300, Boniface decreed a “Great
Jubilee”, a big celebration in Rome where special indulgences were offered, and so
much money came in that it had to be “raked” into baskets
- 1302, the bull Unam Sanctam
in which Boniface decreed that he had the right to make and unmake kings and emperors, “We,
moreover, proclaim, declare and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation
for every human being to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.”
- 1303, Philip IV of France sent
people to arrest him; the French agents had to run for it, but Boniface “died of humiliation”
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