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Boniface VIII

noun

  1. Benedetto Caetani, c1235–1303, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1294–1303.


Boniface VIII

noun

  1. Boniface VIII?12341303MItalianRELIGION: pope original name Benedict Caetano . ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
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Example Sentences

Instead, he was imprisoned by his successor, Boniface VIII, whom Dante placed in one of the lower circles of Hell.

The next effort made in England to enforce enclosure upon nuns was the result of Boniface VIII’s Bull Periculoso.

In 1298 they had supported the appeal of the men of Carcassonne to Boniface VIII., and throughout the whole of Bernard’s agitation the Franciscan convents are seen to be rallying-points of the opposition.

Under the legislation of Boniface VIII. and Clement V. it was natural that the first quarter of the fourteenth century should witness a revival of the episcopal Inquisition.

So we have lived to see the day when the author of the above lines is represented as the herald of a party which has treated so shamefully the gentle successor of Boniface VIII.,

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