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Boniface VIII

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Boniface VIII Originally Benedetto Caetani. 1235?-1303.
Pope (1294-1303) who struggled to assert authority over England, France, and Sicily.

Boniface VIII
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(Biographies / Boniface VIII (?1234-1303) M, Italian, RELIGION: pope) original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234-1303, pope (1294-1303)
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Noun1.Boniface VIII - pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303)


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Pope Boniface VIII in 1294 argued with French King Philip IV over Philip's plan to tax the church to pay for the king's wars.
In one circle of hell, Pope Boniface VIII and two recent Cardinals (Law and O'Connor) drool and and writhe, muttering perversions worthy of Sade as they wander among the bodies of some young new arrivals, preparing to molest their souls.
Arnald of Villanova complained that the hypochondriacal Boniface VIII (1294-1303) worried less about "the zeal for Christ and health of souls than about bodies.
 
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