Boniface VI

noun

1. pope a.d. 896.

Example Sentences

Boniface VI. installed and died in 896 113.

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Surgery being thus degraded, the separation between its practice and that of medicine became unavoidable, and the two branches were formally made distinct by bulls of Boniface VI. and Clement V. St. Louis, who had witnessed the services of surgeons in the field of battle during the crusades, had formed a college or confrérie of surgeons, in honour of St. Cosme and St. Damian, in 1268; and wounds and sores were dressed gratis in the churches dedicated to those saints on the first Monday of every month.

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Boniface VI. was his successor.

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Formosus, who had been engaged in these transactions, and excommunicated as a conspirator for the murder of John, was subsequently elected pope, A. D. 891; he was succeeded by Boniface VI, A. D. 896, who had been deposed from the diaconate, and again from the priesthood, for his immoral and lewd life.

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Boniface VI, who died after 15 days, was a rascal who had been dismissed from several ecclesiastical offices.

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