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Simonist

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si·mo·ny  (sm-n, sm-)
n.
The buying or selling of ecclesiastical pardons, offices, or emoluments.
[Middle English simonie, from Old French, from Late Latin simnia, after Simon Magus, a sorcerer who tried to buy spiritual powers from the Apostle Peter (Acts 8:9-24).]
simo·nist n.
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However, under Smarr's lens this tale, with its narrative within the narrative, reveals a heretofore unsuspected complexity, with links to the Book of Matthew and Dante's depiction of the Simonists in Inferno 19.
Elissa B. Weaver, ed. The Decameron: First Day in Perspective, Volume ... by Nissen, Christopher / Italica
Cardinal Peter Damian, a more flexible soul, admitted that a simonist was a bad bishop, but a bishop nonetheless.
How the pope got his political muscle by Appleby, R. Scott / U.S. Catholic
And how about Saint Catherine of Siena, another Doctor, who, having cleared the nepotists and simonists out of Rome, rapped the knuckles of the pope in Avignon until he agreed to come back where he belonged?
In the Paraclete I trust: women, the priesthood, & the patriarchy by Burkhart, Marian / Commonweal
 
 
 
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