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Clement IV
noun
- Guy Foulques, died 1268, French ecclesiastic: pope 1265–68.
Example Sentences
Persecution and scapegoating were so widespread that in the summer of 1348 Pope Clement IV issued an official statement condemning the violence and stating that Jewish people were just as likely to die from the plague as Christians; the same message was reiterated in two additional statements from the pope that fall.
John is charged with a surreptitious mission, to carry a scientific and philosophical manuscript, modeled on Bacon’s “Opus Majus,” to Pope Clement IV in Rome.
In 1266, when they were engaged in Marseilles in mortal strife with the Dominicans, the business of persecution would seem to have been neglected, for we find Clement IV. ordering the Benedictines of St. Victor to make provision for extirpating the numerous heretics of the valley of Rousset, where they had a dependency.
In the thirteenth century Clement IV. had placed this region under the control of the Burgundian Minister, but with the lapse of time his supervision had become nominal.
Three years’’ tithe of all ecclesiastical revenues in France and Flanders were granted to Charles, and when all this proved insufficient, Clement IV. sacrificed the property of the Roman churches without hesitation.
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