Pope Boniface VIII : Boniface VIII
Boniface VIII was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. Boniface's given name was Benedict Cajetan, or Benedetto Gaetano. He was regarded as a man of great ability, and was elected in 1294 after Celestine V was persuaded to resign.Boniface VIII meddled incessantly in foreign affairs, and put forward the strongest claims to temporal as well as spiritual supremacy. His bitterest quarrels were with the emperor Albert I of Habsburg, with the powerful family of the Colonnas, and with Philip the Fair of France, whom he excommunicated in 1303. He was about to lay all France under an interdict when he was seized at Agnani[?] by a party of horsemen under Philippe de Nogaret[?], an agent of Philip and Sciarra Colonna. After three days' captivity he was released by the town's people, but the agitation he had undergone caused his death soon after, on October 11 1303.
In 1300 Boniface instituted the jubilees, which afterwards became such a source of profit and of scandal to the church.
Dante portrayed Boniface VIII as being in the Inferno in his Divine Comedy.
modified after text in the 9th edition (1880s) of a public domain encyclopedia
- preceded by Pope Celestine V (1294)
- succeeded by Pope Benedict XI (1303-1304)
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temperance; that an idiot might see a straggling line and be content,
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that anybody who wants to make a perfect violin must keep his eye
all the music he has put into the world, and then never let his hands
after years and years of rightness, they are fit to make a violin
angel wouldn't be ashamed to play on."
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Anthony was seventeen now, and he was "educated," in spite of sorry
Lord does know how! He knows how the drill and pressure of the daily
working from within, how these educate us.
The blind Anthony Croft sitting in the kitchen doorway had seemingly
close on fifty years through level meadows of mediocrity, a witch in
feet stumbling, eyes and ears open to hear God's secret thought;
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its "path and the outlets of the sky," potential genius for ever
knows! Poor he certainly was, yet blessed after all. "One thing I
realise his ideals, but he had the angel aim by which he idealised
our allotted tasks, humble or splendid, in this consecrated fashion!
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