Church Affairs

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King Henry VIII was the sovereign of England.   
Prior Holloway surrendered Bath Priory to the crown in 1539. It was sold to Humphry Colles of Taunton.     
The abbey was stripped of its co-cathedral status in the aftermath of the Dissolution.   
The church was stripped of lead, iron and glass and left to decay.

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A Papal decree concerning the donations of the faithful at Mass is attributed to Pope Urban I.   
The gifts of the faithful are offered to the Lord can only be used for ecclesiastical purposes,     
for the common good of the Christian community, and for the poor.

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Pope Innocent III was the Pope from 1198 to 1216. He organized the Fourth Crusade of 1202-1204.

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Innocent III was the Pope from 1198 to 1216. He endorsed the Franciscan Order.

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Pope Benedict VII was the Pontiff from 974 to 983.   
In March 981 he presided over a synod in St. Peter's that prohibited simony.

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Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester had St. Mary's Church in Luton, Bedfordshire, England built in 1121. The church was consecrated in 1137.

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Through his legate Leo Pope John XV mediated a dispute between King Ethelred the Unready of England and Duke Richard the Fearless of Normandy.

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Amadeus III of Savoy (1095-1148) was Count of Savoy and Maurienne from 1103 until 1148.   
He helped restore the Abbey of St. Maurice of Agaune, in which former kings of Burgundy had been crowned.

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On October 9, 1514 Princess Mary Tudor, the daughter of King Henry VII of England, and King Louis XII of France were married at Saint-Vulfran (Abbeville) Cathedral in Abbeville, France.

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Boniface IX was the Pope from November 2, 1389 to October 1, 1404.   
During the reign of Boniface IX two jubilees were celebrated at Rome.   
Several cities of Germany obtained "privileges of the jubilee", as indulgences were called.

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In 1155 Pope Adrian IV gave King Henry II of England a blessing to expand his lordship when he granted       
the papal bull Laudobiliter, exhorting Henry to reform the Irish Church.

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Pope Honorius IV was the ruler of the Papal States from April 2, 1285 to April 3, 1287.     
During the first few months of his pontificate he lived in the Vatican.   
However, in the autumn of 1285 he removed to the palace he had erected on the Aventine.

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King Istvan (Stephen) I of Hungary was crowned in the St. Adalbert Cathedral in Esztergom, Hungary in 1000.

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Pope Gelasius I was the bishop of Rome from March 1, 492 to November 19, 496.   
He authored the book De duabus in Christo naturis (On the dual nature of Christ), 
which described Catholic doctrine in the matter of the nature of Jesus Christ.

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Pope Sircius was the bishop of Rome from 384 to 389. He issued the Directa decretal,   
containing decisions on matters regarding baptism, penance, church discipline, and the celibacy of the clergy.

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Pope Gregory VIII was Pope for two months October 21 to December 17 in 1187.   
He issued the papal bull Audita tremendi calling for the Third Crusade.