Chronicle Timeline

DATE

CLAIMANT

VASSAL

PERFORMANCE

CONCERN

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ca. 0110 CHURCH OF ANTIOCH BISHOP IGNATIUS KATHOLIKE EKKLESIA CHURCH OF ROME Global Icon.

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1053-09-02 HOLY SEE POPE LEO IX IN TERRA PAX HOMINIBUS CONSTANTINOPLE Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(5).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) LEO BISHIP, SERVANT OF SERVANTS OF GOD, TO MICHAELI OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND TO THE BISHOP LEONI OF ACRIDANO, (2) THE MOST BLESSED AND APOSTOLIC PONTIFF SYLVESTER BY DIVINE INSPIRATION DECREED: "SPIRITUAL IS HIS SON CONSTANTINE, THE MOST RELIGIOUS AUGUSTUS WITH THE UNIVERSAL NICENE SYNOD; APPROVING AND SUBSCRIBING THE SUPREME SEE TO BE BY NO ONE JUDGED, INVIOLABLE, AND UNSHAKEN TO ITSELF PRESERVED THAT PRIVILEGE", (3) WHICH, THE SAME PRINCE [CONSTANTINE], ON THE FOURTH DAY OF HIS BAPTISM [HE] DEVOUTLY CONFERRED TO THE ROMAN PONTIFF [SYLVESTER] THAT; IN THE WHOLE WORLD, THE PRIESTS SHOULD HAVE HIM [ROMAN PONTIFF] AS THEIR HEAD JUST AS ALL JUDGES HAVE THE KING,(4) THE MOST PRUDENT PRINCE OF THE EARTHLY MONARCHY, CONSTANTINE, HAVING DEEPLY REVERED SO GREAT A PINNACLE OF HEAVENLY DIGNITY IN BLESSED PETER AND IN HIS VICARS, ADORNED ALL THE PONTIFFS WHO WOULD SUCCEED THAT SAME APOSTLE [PETER] IN THE ROMAN SEE UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD THROUGH BLESSED SYLVESTER; NOT ONLY WITH IMPERIAL POWER AND DIGNITY, BUT ALSO WITH IMPERIAL INSIGNIA AND MINISTRY,(5) HE [CONSTANTINE] SAID: "WE GRANT TO (1) THOSE HOLY APOSTLES THEMSELVES, (2) THE MOST BLESSED LORDS PETER AND PAUL, AND THROUGH THEM ALSO TO (3) THE BLESSED SYLVESTER OUR FATHER THE SUPREME PONTIFF AND UNIVERSAL POPE OF THE CITY OF ROME, AND TO (4) ALL HIS SUCCESSORS AS PONTIFFS WHO UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD SHALL SIT IN THE SEAT OF BLESSED PETER; AND FURTHERMORE FROM THIS PRESENT TIME WE HAND OVER (A) THE PALACE OF OUR EMPIRE, THE LATERAN, WHICH SURPASSES AND TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER ALL PALACES IN THE WHOLE WORLD, THEN (B) THE DIADEM, NAMELY THE CROWN OF OUR HEAD, AND AT THE SAME TIME (C) THE PHRYGIAN CAP [CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS], AS WELL AS (D) THE SHOULDER BAND, NAMELY THE STRAP WHICH IS ACCUSTOMED TO ENCIRCLE THE EMPERIAL NECK, AND MOREOVER ALSO (E) THE PURPLE CLOAK, AND (F) THE SCARLET TUNIC, AND (G) ALL IMPERIAL GARMENTS, BUT ALSO (H) THE DIGNITY OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDING HORSEMEN [THE RANK ASSOCIATED WITH IMPERIAL CALVARY], BESTOWING UPON HIM ALSO (I) THE IMPERIAL WREATHS, TOGETHER WITH (J) ALL STANDARDS AND BANNERS, AS WELL AS (K) VARIOUS IMPERIAL ORNAMENTS, AND (L) THE ENTIRE PROCESSION OF IMPERIAL MAJESTY, AND (M) THE GLORY OF OUR POWER. ...BUT ALL THESE THINGS, WHICH THROUGH THIS IMPERIAL DECREE AND THROUGH OTHER IMPERIAL DECREES, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED AND CONFIRMED UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD, UNIMPAIRED AND UNSHAKEN; WE DECREE SHALL REMAIN.", (6) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Bruno Von Egisheim-Dagsburg

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1073-04-30 HOLY SEE POPE GREGORIUS VII AD PRINCIPES HISPANNIAE SPAIN Flag of Spain.

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KEY CLAIM:

(3), AND (4).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) TO ALL THE PRINCES DESIRING TO GO INTO SPAIN, (2) PERPETUAL GREETINGS, (3) THE KINGDOM OF SPAIN BELONGED OF OLD TO ST. PETER AND THAT THIS RIGHT HAS NEVER BEEN LOST, (4) THE OWNERSHIP OF THIS LAND INHERES IN THE APOSTOLIC SEE ALONE, (5) WHATEVER HAS COME INTO THE POSSESSION OF THE CHURCHES, WHILE IT MAY BE ALIENATED FROM THEIR USE, MAY NOT BY ANY LAPSE OF TIME BE SEPERATED FROM THEIR OWNERSHIP EXCEPT BY LAWFUL GRANT, (6) COUNT EVOLUS OF ROCEIO WISHES TO ATTACK THAT LAND; THEREFORE, WE HAVE GRANTED HIM THE POSSESSION OF SUCH TERRITORY BY HIS OWN EFFORTS OR WITH THE AID OF ALLIES ON CONDITIONS AGREED UPON BY US AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF ST. PETER, (7) BEWARE LEST AFTER YOU HAVE CONQUERED THE LAND YOU WRONG ST. PETER IN THE SAME WAY AS THE INFIDELS DO WHO NOW HOLD IT, (8) UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED TO RECOGNIZE THE RIGHTS OF ST. PETER BY MAKING AN EQUITABLE AGREEMENT WITH US; WE WILL FORBID YOU BY OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY TO GO TITHER, (9) YOUR HOLY AND UNIVERSAL MOTHER; THE CHURCH, MAY NOT SUFFER TO THE LOSS NOT ONLY OF HER PROPERTY BUT ALSO OF THE DEVOTION OF HER CHILDREN, (10) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Ildebrando di Soana

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1075-03-00 HOLY SEE POPE GREGORIUS VII DICTATUS PAPAE WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (5), (6), (7), (9), (11), AND (13).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) THE ROMAN CHURCH WAS FOUNDED BY GOD ALONE, (2) THE ROMAN PONTIFF ALONE CAN WITH RIGHT BE CALLED UNIVERSAL, (3) HE ALONE CAN DEPOSE OR REINSTATE BISHOPS, (4) IS ABOVE ALL BISHOPS AND CAN PASS SENTENCE OF DEPOSITION AGAINST THEM, (5) FOR HIM ALONE IS IT LAWFUL, ACCORDING TO THE NEEDS OF TIME, TO MAKE NEW LAWS, (6) OF THE POPE ALONE ALL PRINCES SHALL KISS THE FEET, (7) IT MAY BE PERMITTED TO HIM TO DEPOSE EMPERORS, (8) HE HAS THE POWER TO ORDAIN A CLERK OF ANY CHURCH, (9) NO CHAPTER AND NO BOOK SHALL BE CONSIDERED CANONICAL WITHOUT HIS AUTHORITY, (10) A SENTENCE PASSED BY HIM MAY BE RETRACTED BY NO ONE AND THAT HE HIMSELF, ALONE OF ALL, MAY RETRACT IT, (11) HE HIMSELF MAY BE JUDGED BY NO ONE, (12) NO ONE SHALL DARE TO CONDEMN ONE WHO APPEALS TO THE APOSTOLIC CHAIR, (13) THE ROMAN CHURCH HAS NEVER ERRED, NOR WILL IT ERR TO ALL ETERNITY, (14) THE ROMAN PONTIFF, IF HE HAVE BEEN CANONICALLY ORDAINED, IS UNDOUBTEDLY MADE A SAINT, (15) BY HIS COMMAND AND CONSENT IT MAY BE LAWFUL FOR SUBORDINATES TO BRING ACCUSATIONS, (16) HE MAY DEPOSE AND REINSTATE BISHOPS WITHOUT ASSEMBLING A SYNOD, (17) HE WHO IS NOT AT PEACE WITH THE ROMAN CHURCH SHALL NOT BE CONSIDERED CATHOLIC, (18) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Ildebrando di Soana

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1198-08-21 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS III QUANTO PERSONAM TUAM WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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1198-11-03 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS III SICUT UNIVERSITATIS CONDITOR WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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1213-05-13 CROWN OF ENGLAND KING JOHN CONFIRMATION OF CAPITULATION I ENGLAND Flag of England.

& IRELAND

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (5), AND (9).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) OUR FOUR BARONS HAVE SWORN ON OUR SOUL THAT WE WILL IN ALL GOOD FAITH KEEP THE SUBSCRIBED PEACE IN ALL THINGS, (2) WE SOLEMNLY AND ABSOLUTELY SWEAR TO ABIDE BY THE COMMANDS OF OUR LORD THE POPE, (3) WE WILL OBSERVE STRICT PEACE AND AFFORD FULL SECURITY TO THE CLERGY AND LAITY CONNECTED WITH THIS MATTER: WE PUBLICLY MAKE OATH THAT WE; (A) WILL NOT INJURE THEM IN PROPERTY, (B) WILL NOT CAUSE OR PERMIT THEM TO BE INJURED IN PERSON OR PROPERTY, (C) WILL DISMISS ALL OUR ANGER AGAINST THEM, (D) WILL RECEIVE THEM INTO OUR FAVOUR, (E) WILL NOT HINDER THE AFORESAID ARCHBISHOP AND BISHOPS, AND (F) WILL NOT CAUSE OR PERMIT THEM TO BE HINDERED FROM PERFORMING THEIR DUTIES IN ALL FREEDOM AND ENJOYING THE FULL AUTHORITY OF THEIR JURISDICTION AS THEY OUGHT TO DO, (4) IF BY ANY CHANCE WE SHOULD EITHER BY OURSELVES OR BY OTHERS CONTRAVENE THIS; (A) THEY WILL THEN ABIDE BY THE APOSTOLIC COMMANDS ON BEHALF OF THE CHURCH AGAINST THE VIOLATORS OF THIS PEACE AND ARRANGEMENT, AND (B) MAY WE FOR EVER LOSE THE WARDSHIP OF THE VACANT CHURCHES, (5) WE HAVE FOR THIS BY OUR LETTERS PATENT PLEDGED WITH OUR LORD THE POPE AND THE CHURCH OF ROME ALL THE RIGHT OF PATRONAGE WHICH WE POSSESS IN THE ENGLISH CHURCHES, (6) SHOULD WE REQUIRE IT: THE AFORESAID ARCHBISHOP AND BISHOPS SHALL—SAVING THE HONOUR OF GOD AND THE CHURCHES—GIVE; (A) SECURITY ON OATH, AND (B) IN WRITING; THAT THEY WILL NOT EITHER PERSONALLY OR BY OTHERS MAKE ANY ATTEMPT AGAINST OUR PERSON OR CROWN AS LONG AS WE AFFORD THEM THE SECURITY ABOVE MENTIONED AND KEEP THE PEACE UNBROKEN, (7) WE WILL ALSO MAKE FULL RESTITUTION OF THE CONFISCATED PROPERTY AND SATISFY FOR THEIR LOSSES—THE CLERGY AS WELL AS LAITY—WHO ARE CONCERNED IN THIS BUSINESS; (A) NOT ONLY AS REGARDS THEIR PROPERTY, BUT ALSO (B) THEIR RIGHTS, AND (C) WE WILL PROTECT THEIR RESTORED RIGHTS, (8) WE WILL FORTHWITH RELEASE, DISMISS, AND RESTORE TO THEIR RIGHTS ALL THE CLERGY WHOM WE ARE HOLDING UNDER RESTRAINT AS WELL AS ANY OF THE LATY WHO ARE DETAINED IN CUSTODY ON ACCOUNT OF THIS BUSINESS, (9) IMMEDIATELY ON ARRIVAL OF A FIT PERSON TO ABSOLVE US; (A) WE WILL—IN PART RESTORATION OF THE CONFISCATED PROPERTY—DELIVER TO MESSENGERS DEPUTED BY THE SAID ARCHBISHOP, BISHOPS, AND MONKS OF CANTERBURY THE SUM OF EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS LAWFUL STERLING MONEY FOR DISCHARGING WHAT IS DUE, (10) WE WILL ALSO PUBLICLY REVOKE THE SENTENCE OF OUTLAWRY WHICH WE HAVE PRONOUNCED AGAINST THE ECCLESIASTICS, (11) WE MOREOVER REVOKE THE SENTENCE OF OUTLAWRY PRONOUNCED AGAINST THE LAITY CONCERNED IN THIS MATTER, (12) IF ANY QUESTION SHALL ARISE ABOUT THE LOSSES AND CONFISCATIONS OR THE AMOUNT OF COMPUTATION OF THEM; (A) IT SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE LEGATE OR DELEGATE OF OUR LORD THE POPE, (13) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

John

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1213-05-15 CROWN OF ENGLAND KING JOHN CONFIRMATION OF CAPITULATION II ENGLAND Flag of England.

& IRELAND

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (3), (4), AND (6).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) WE WISH IT TO BE KNOWN TO YOU THAT WE: (A) HAVING IN MANY THINGS OFFENDED GOD AND OUR MOTHER THE HOLY CHURCH, (B) BEING IN GREAT NEED OF THE DIVINE MERCY FOR OUR SINS, AND (C) TO PAY THE JUST DEMANDS OF THE CHURCH, (2) NOT BY FORCE OR FROM FEAR OF THE INTERDICT BUT OF OUR OWN FREE WILL AND CONSENT AND BY THE GENERAL ADVICE OF OUR BARONS ASSIGN AND GRANT TO: (A) THE HOLY CHURCH OF ROME—OUR MOTHER, AND (B) OUR LORD POPE INNOCENT AND HIS CATHOLIC SUCCESSORS: (C) THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND, AND (D) THE WHOLE KINGDOM OF IRELAND: WITH ALL THEIR RIGHTS AND APPURTENANCES IN REMISSION OF THE SINS OF US AND OUR WHOLE RACE, (3) WE HAVE MADE OUR HOMAGE AND SWORN ALLEGIANCE TO OUR LORD THE POPE AND HIS CATHOLIC SUCCESSORS AND THE CHURCH OF ROME, (4) WE BIND OUR SUCCESSORS AND HEIRS BY OUR WIFE FOR EVER TO DO HOMAGE AND RENDER ALLEGIENCE TO THE SUPREME PONTIFF AND THE CHURCH OF ROME, (5) IN TOKEN OF THIS LASTING BOND AND GRANT: WE WILL AND DETERMINE THAT—FROM OUR OWN INCOME AND FROM OUR SPECIAL REVENUES ARISING FROM THE AFORSAID KINGDOMS—THE CHURCH OF ROME SHALL—FOR ALL SERVICE AND CUSTOM WHICH WE OWE TO THEM AND SAVING ALWAYS THE ST. PETER'S PENCE: (C) RECEIVE ANNUALLY A THOUSAND MARKS STERLING MONEY, (5) WE BIND OURSELVES AND OUR SUCCESSORS NOT TO CONTRAVENE IT AND IF WE OR ANY ONE OF OUR SUCCESSORS SHALL DARE TO OPPOSE THIS: LET HIM—WHOEVER HE BE—BE DEPRIVED OF HIS RIGHT IN THE KINGDOM, (6) LET THIS CHARTER OF OUR BOND AND GRANT REMAIN CONFIRMED FOR EVER, (7) WITNESS MYSELF AT THE HOUSE OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE NEAR DOVER, (8) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

John

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1214-04-21 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS III VALIDATION OF CAPITULATION ENGLAND Flag of England.

& IRELAND

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (5), (6), AND (9).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) TO HIS LEGITIMATE FREE-BORN HEIRS FOREVER, (2) AS EVERY KNEE IS BOWED TO JESUS OF THINGS IN HEAVEN AND THINGS IN EARTH AND THINGS UNDER THE EARTH: SO ALL MEN SHOULD OBEY HIS VICAR, (3) ALL SECULAR KINGS FOR THE SAKE OF GOD: SO VENERATE THIS VICAR, (4) YOU HAVE DECIDED TO SUBMIT IN A TEMPORAL SENSE YOURSELF AND YOUR KINGDOM, (5) THOSE PROVINCES WHICH FROM OF OLD HAVE HAD THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH AS THEIR PROPER TEACHER IN SPIRITUAL MATTERS SHOULD NOW IN TEMPORAL THINGS ALSO HAVE HER AS THEIR PECULIAR SOVEREIGN, (6) YOU ON THE GENERAL ADVICE OF YOUR BARONS HAVE OFFERED AND YIELDED IN THE FORM OF: (A) AN ANNUAL PAYMENT OF A THOUSAND MARKS, (B) YOURSELF, AND (C) YOUR KINGDOMS OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND: WITH ALL THEIR RIGHTS AND APPURTENANCES TO: (D) GOD, (E) SS PETER AND PAUL—HIS APOSTLES, (F) THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH, AND (G) US AND OUR SUCCESSORS: TO BE OUR RIGHT AND OUR PROPERTY—AS IS STATED IN YOUR OFFICIAL LETTER ATTESTED BY A GOLDEN SEAL, (7) THIS OFFER AND CONCESSION SO PIOUSLY AND WISELY MADE WE REGARD AS ACCEPTABLE AND VALID, (8) WE TAKE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF ST. PETER AND OF OURSELVES YOUR PERSON AND THE PERSONS OF YOUR HEIRS TOGETHER WITH THE SAID KINGDOMS AND THEIR APPURTENANCES AND ALL OTHER GOODS WHICH ARE NOW REASONABLY HELD OR MAY IN FUTURE BE SO HELD, (9) WE GRANT THE SAID KINGDOMS IN FIEF AND CONFIRM THEM BY THIS PRIVILEDGE ON CONDITION THAT ANY OF YOUR HEIRS ON RECEIVING THE CROWN WILL PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE THIS AS FIEF HELD OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF AND OF THE ROMAN CHURCH AND WILL TAKE AN OATH OF FEALTY TO THEM, (10) LET NO MAN THEREFORE HAVE POWER TO INFRINGE THIS DOCUMENT OF OUR CONCESSION AND CONFIRMATION NOR PRESUME TO OPPOSE IT, (11) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Lotario dei Conti di Segni

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1215-08-24 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS III ETSI KARISSIMUS ENGLAND Flag of England.

& IRELAND

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (5), (6), (7), AND (8).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) JOHN ILLUSTRIOUS KING OF THE ENGLISH GRIEVIOUSLY OFFENDED GOD AND THE CHURCH, (2) WE EXCOMMUNICATED HIM AND PUT HIS KINGDOM UNDER ECCLESIASTICAL INTERDICT, (3) FOR WE IN OUR LETTERS AND EQUALLY THROUGH THE ARCHBISHOP AND BISHOPS HAVE ASKED AND ADVISED THE KING—ENJOINING IT ON HIM AS HE HOPES TO HAVE HIS SINS REMITTED—TO: (A) TREAT THESE MAGNATES AND NOBLES KINDLY, (B) TO HEAR THEIR JUST PETITIONS GRACIOUSLY, ...AND (C) WE ALSO ASKED HIM TO GRANT THE FULL SAFE CONDUCT FOR THE OUTWARD/HOMEWARD JOURNEY AND THE TIME BETWEEN, (4) THE KING [JOHN] DECLARED TO THEM [ENGLISH BARONS] THAT SINCE THE LORDSHIP OF THE KINGDOM BELONGED TO THE ROMAN CHURCH: HE [JOHN] NEITHER COULD NOR SHOULD WITHOUT OUR SPECIAL MANDATE MAKE ANY CHANGE IN IT TO OUR PREJUDICE, (5) THE LORD [JESUS CHRIST] HAS SAID TO US BY THE PROPHET JEREMIAH: "I HAVE SET THEE OVER THE NATIONS AND OVER THE KINGDOMS TO ROOT OUT, TO DESTROY, TO BUILD, AND TO PLANT", (6) ON BEHALF OF ALMIGHTY GOD—FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT—AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF SS PETER AND PAUL—HIS APOSTLES—AND BY OUR OWN AUTHORITY ACTING ON THE GENERAL ADVICE OF OUR BRETHREN: WE UTTERLY REJECT AND CONDEMN THIS SETTLEMENT, (7) UNDER THREAT OF EXCOMMUNICATION WE ORDER THAT THE KING SHOULD NOT DARE TO OBSERVE IT AND THAT THE BARONS AND THEIR ASSOCIATES SHOULD NOT REQUIRE IT TO BE OBSERVED, (8) THE CHARTER WE DECLARE TO BE NULL AND VOID OF ALL VALIDITY FOR EVER, (9) WHEREFORE LET NO MAN DEEM IT LAWFUL TO INFRINGE THIS DOCUMENT OF OUR ANNULMENT AND PROHIBITION NOR PRESUME TO OPPOSE IT, (10) IF ANYONE SHOULD PRESUME TO DO SO [OPPOSE IT]: LET HIM KNOW THAT HE WILL INCUR THE ANGER OF ALMIGHTY GOD AND OF SS PETER AND PAUL—HIS APOSTLES, (11) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Lotario dei Conti di Segni

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1215-08-24 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS III BARONIBUS ANGLIE ENGLAND Flag of England.

& IRELAND

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ca. 1245 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS IV SENTENCE OF EXCOMMUNICATION HOLY SEE Flag of England.

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1245-07-17 HOLY SEE POPE INNOCENTIUS IV DEPOSITIONIS FRIDERICI II GERMANY Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), AND (4).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) FOR AN EVER LASTING RECORD, (2) THIS PRIVELEGE WHICH JESUS CHRIST HANDED TO PETER AND IN HIM TO HIS SUCCESSORS—NAMELY: "WHATEVER YOU BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN AND WHATEVER YOU LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN"—ASSUREDLY CONSISTS THE AUTHORITY AND POWER OF THE ROMAN CHURCH, (3) HE [KING FREDERICK II] SHOULD MAKE ADEQUATE COMPENSATION TO THE TEMPLARS HOSPITALLERS AND OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL PERSONS FOR THE LOSS AND INJURY INFLICTED UPON THEM: HE NEVERTHELESS REFUSED TO OBEY THESE COMMANDS, (4) WE HOLD ON EARTH THE PLACE OF JESUS CHRIST, (5) WE ABSOLVE FROM THEIR OATH FOR EVER ALL THOSE WHO ARE BOUND TO HIM [KING FREDERICK II] BY AN OATH OF LOYALTY: FIRMLY FORBIDDING BY OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY ANYONE IN THE FUTURE TO OBEY OR HEED HIM AS EMPEROR OF KING, (6) ANYONE WHO HENCEFORTH OFFERS ADVICE, HELP, OR FAVOUR TO HIM AS TO AN EMPEROR OR KING: AUTOMATICALLY INCURS EXCOMUNICATION, (7) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Sinibaldo Fieschi

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1302-11-18 HOLY SEE POPE BONIFACIUS VIII UNAM SANCTUM WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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ca. 1326 O.E.S.A. PRIEST TRIUMPHUS DISPENSATION OF SABBATH HOLY SEE Flag of England.

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), AND (2).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) NOW WE MUST CONSIDER DISPENSATION OF THE THIRD COMMANDMENT IN REGARD TO SIX ARGUMENTS: (A) FIRST, WHETHER THE POPE CAN GRANT DISPENSATION THAT THE SABBATH DAY SHOULD BE OBSERVED IN A SPIRITUAL SENSE—NOT LITERAL, (B) SECOND, WHETHER THE POPE CAN GRANT DISPENSATION OF CHANGING THE SABBATH DAY TO THE LORD'S DAY [THE DAY JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH OF ROME], (C) THIRD, WHETHER THE POPE CAN GRANT DISPENSATION OF PERMITTING SERVILE WORK ON THE LORD'S DAY, (D) FOURTH, WHETHER THE POPE MAY STRICTLY PROHIBIT SERVILE WORK ON THE LORD'S DAY AS IT WAS PROHIBITED ON THE SABBATH, (E) FIFTH, WHETHER THE POPE CAN GRANT DISPENSATION OF PERMITTING MARKET BUYING AND SELLING ON THE LORD'S DAY, (F) SIXTH, WHETHER THE POPE CAN GRANT DISPENSATION THAT WAR MAY BE WAGED ON THE LORD'S DAY, (2) RESPONSE. IT MUST BE SAID—BY THE GOOD MEMORIAL OF AUGUSTINE—THE CONVENIENT LOCATION OF THE DAY OF SABBATH INSTITUTED FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE FAITHFUL IS THE LORD'S DAY [THE DAY JESUS CHRIST ROSE FROM THE DEAD ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH OF ROME] ON ACCOUNT OF THREE [REASONS]: (A) FIRST, ON ACCOUNT OF SIGNIFICANT PREEMINENCE, (B) SECOND, ON ACCOUNT OF THE SIGNS OF EXCELLENT DEEDS, AND (C) THREE, ON ACCOUNT OF TEMPORAL CONVENIENCE, (3) ETC.

Person Icon. CLAIMANT:

Ordo Eremitarum Sancti Augistini | Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Agostino Trionfo AUGUSTINIAN FRIAR, AND ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST

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ca. 1326 O.E.S.A. PRIEST TRIUMPHUS TRANSFER OF THE EMPIRE HOLY SEE Flag of England.

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ca. 1326 O.E.S.A. PRIEST TRIUMPHUS SUBJECTION OF OTHER KINGS HOLY SEE Flag of England.

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ca. 1326 O.E.S.A. PRIEST TRIUMPHUS APPEALING THE POPE'S SENTENCE HOLY SEE Flag of England.

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1420-06-10 HOLY SEE POPE MARTINUS V ERECTIO EREMITORII IN MONASTERIUM OFM PORTUGAL Global Icon.

& MOROCCO

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1439-07-06 HOLY SEE POPE EUGENIUS IV LAETENTUR CAELI GREECE Global Icon.

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1582-02-24 HOLY SEE POPE GREGORIUS XIII GREGORIAN CALENDAR WORDWIDE Flag of the Live Venue.

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (7), (8), (9), (11), (12), (13), AND (14).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) THIS SYSTEM—WITH THE CONSENSUS OF THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN WORLD—EMBRACED AND PROPOSED TO ALL FOR COMPLIANCE: A DEED WORTHY TO EVERLASTING MEMORY, (2) THROUGH IT, THE FEAST DAYS MIGHT BE CELEBRATED IN THEIR CORRECT SEASONS PROPERLY AND LAWFULLY ACCORDING TO THE DECREES OF THE (A) COUNCILS, (B) PONTIFFS, AND (C) FATHERS, (3) COME THEN—ASTRONOMERS—APPLY YOURSELVES WITH YOUR WHOLE MIND AND UTMOST CARE TO THIS COMMON CAUSE. IF YOU KNOW OF SOMETHING MORE CORRECT THAN THESE, BE WILLING TO GENEROUSLY IMPART AND SHARE IT WITH US. FOR IT WILL BE A DISGRACE TO ALL OF US TO SUFFER ALL CHRISTIANS TO REMAIN ANY LONGER IN PROFOUND ERROR AND TO EXIST IN IGNORANCE OF SUCH CRITICAL MATTERS, (4) THE SUPREME PONTIFF HIMSELF WILL RATIFY AND FOLLOW IT AS THE CONSENSUS OF THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN WORLD, (5) CONSIDERING THEREFORE—FOR THE CORRECT CELEBRATION OF THE EASTER FEAST—ACCORDING TO THE SANCTIONS OF THE HOLY FATHERS AND ANCIENT ROMAN PONTIFFS, (6) TO ALL IN OUR DOMINION AND THAT OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH—MEDIATELY OR IMMEDIATELY SUBJECT RESIDING PRINTERS—AND TO OTHERS EXISTING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD: UNDER SENTENCE OF EXCOMUNICATION INCURRED AUTOMATICALLY AND OTHER PENALTIES AT OUR DISCRETION LEST WITHOUT OUR LICENSE THE CALENDAR OR THE MARTYROLOGY—TOGETHER OR SEPERATELY—THEY DARE TO (A) PRINT, (B) PUBLISH, (C) RECEIVE, OR (D) PRESUME IN ANY MANNER—WE FORBID, (7) WE LIFT FURTHERMORE AND COMPLETELY ABOLISH THE OLD CALENDAR, (8) WE WILL THAT ALL (A) PATRIARCHS, (B) PRIMATES, (C) ARCHBISHOPS, (D) BISHOPS, (E) ABBOTS, AND (F) REMAINING LEADERS OF THE CHURCHES INTRODUCE THE NEW CALENDAR FOR RECITING THE DIVINE OFFICES AND CELEBRATING FEASTS INTO THEIR OWN (G) CHURCHES, (H) MONASTERIES, (I) CONVENTS, (J) ORDERS, (K) MILITARY ORDERS, AND (L) DIOCESES AS WELL AS ALL OTHER (M) PRIESTS, (N) SECULAR AND REGULAR CLERICS OF BOTH SEXES, (O) SOLDIERS, AND (P) ALL CHRIST'S FAITHFUL, (9) WE EXHORT AND ASK (A) KINGS, (B) PRINCES, AND (C) REPUBLICS—AND WE COMMAND THEM—FOR CONSERVING CONCORD AMONG CHRISTIAN NATIONS IN CELEBRATING FESTIVITIES THAT THEY THEMSELVES ALSO RECEIVE THIS OUR CALENDAR AND TAKE CARE THAT IT BE RECEIVED RELIGIOUSLY BY ALL POPULATIONS SUBJECT TO THEM AND BE OBSERVED INVIOLABLY, (10) TO NO MAN THEREFORE SHALL IT BE PERMITTED TO (A) INFRINGE THIS PAGE OF OUR COMMANDS, MANDATES, STATUTES, WILL, APPROVAL, PROHIBITION, REMOVAL, ABOLITION, EXHORTATION, AND PETITION, (B) NOR TO GO AGAINST IT WITH RASH DARING, AND (C) IF ANYONE SHOULD PRESUME TO ATTEMPT THIS, LET HIM KNOW THAT HE WILL INCUR THE INDIGNATION OF ALMIGHTY GOD AND OF BLESSED PETER AND PAUL—HIS APOSTLES, (11) THE SOLAR CYCLE OR [CYCLE] OF DOMINICAL LETTERS IS A REVOLUTION OF A PERIOD OF 28 YEARS FROM 1 UP TO 28—WHICH REVOLUTION BEING COMPLETED—IT RETURNS AGAIN TO UNITY (YEAR ONE) AND ANY YEAR OF THIS CYCLE TAKES ITS BEGINNING FROM JANUARY, (12) ANY YEAR OF THIS CYCLE TAKES ITS BEGINNING FROM JANUARY IN PAPAL BULLS, (13) BY THE DECREE OF THE HOLY COUNCIL OF NICEA, EASTER—UPON WHICH THE REST OF THE MOVEABLE FEASTS DEPEND—MUST BE CELEBRATED ON THE SUNDAY, (14) THE SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER WILL BE THE DAY OF PENTECOST—WHICH TRINITY SUNDAY IMMEDIATELY SUCCEEDS—AND ON THE NEXT THURSDAY THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI WILL BE CELEBRATED, (14) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Ugo Boncompagni

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1588-00-00 HOLY SEE CARDINAL BELLARMINI CONCILIORUM AUCTORITATE HOLY SEE Global Icon.

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1643-03-02 VIRGINIA Col. GENERAL ASSEMBLY ACT AGAINST POPISH RECUSANTS & PRIESTS VIRGINIA Global Icon.

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1647-05-26 MASS. BAY Col. GREAT & GEN. COURT BANISHMENT OF THE JESUITS MASSACHUSETTS Global Icon.

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1670-05-02 CROWN OF ENGLAND KING CHARLES II HUDSON BAY COMPANY CANADA Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(3).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) AN EXPEDITION FOR THE HUDSON'S BAY IN THE NORTH-WEST PART OF AMERICA FOR THE TRADE FOR FURS, MINERALS, AND OTHER CONSIDERABLE COMMODITIES BY MEANS WHEREOF VERY GREAT ADVANTAGE TO US AND OUR KINGDOM, (2) TO INCORPORATE AND GRANT THE SOLE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF ALL THOSE SEAS, STREIGHTS, BAYS, RIVERS, LAKES, CREEKS, AND SOUNDS, IN WHATSOEVER LATITUDE THAT LIE WITHIN THE ENTRENCE OF THE STREIGHTS WITH ALL THE LANDS, COUNTRIES, AND TERRITORIES UPON THE COASTS AND CONFINES OF THE SEAS WHICH ARE NOT NOW ACTUALLY POSSESSED BY ANY OF OUR SUBJECTS OR BY THE SUBJECTS OF ANY OTHER CHRISTIAN PRINCE OR STATE, (3) THE FREE LIBERTY AND LICENCE TO (A) SEND SHIPS OF WAR, MEN, AND AMUNITION UNTO ANY PLANTATIONS, FORTS, FACTORIES, AND PLACES OF TRADE, (B) TO CHOOSE COMMANDERS AND OFFICERS, AND (C) TO GIVE THEM POWER AND AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE OR MAKE PEACE OR WAR WITH ANY PRINCE OR PEOPLE WHATSOEVER THAT ARE NOT CHRISTIANS, (4) THE RIGHT AND RECOMPENSE UPON THE GOODS, ESTATES, AND PEOPLE BY WHOM THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY SHALL SUSTAIN ANY INJURY, LOSS, DAMAGE, INTERRUPTION, OR WRONG IN THEIR TRADE (5) IT SHALL BE LAWFUL TO (A) ERECT AND BUILD CASTLES, FORTIFICATIONS, FORTS, GARRISONS, COLONIES, PLANTATIONS, TOWNS, VILLAGES, (B) SEND OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND ALL KINDS OF CLOTHING, PROVISION OF VICTUALS, AMMUNITION, IMPLEMENTS, AND (C) TRANSPORT AND CARRY OVER SUCH NUMBER OF MEN THEY SHALL THINK FIT TO GOVERN, (6) THEY SHALL HAVE (A) PERPETUAL SUCCESSION, (B) AT ALL TIMES BE PERSONABLE AND CAPABLE IN LAW TO HAVE, PURCHASE, RECEIVE, POSSESS, ENJOY, AND RETAIN LANDS, RENTS, PRIVILEGES, LIBERTIES, JURISDICTIONS, FRANCHISES, HEREDITAMENTS, AND (C) AT ALL TIMES BE PERSONABLE AND CAPABLE TO GIVE, GRANT, DEMISE, ALIEN, ASSIGN, AND DIPOSE LANDS, TENEMENTS, AND HEREDITAMENTS, (7) THE COMMITTE OF THE COMPANY TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNOR AND DEPUTY GOVERNOR SHALL HAVE (A) THE DIRECTION OF THE VOYAGES, (B) THE PROVISION OF SHIPPING MERCHANDIZES, (C) THE SALE OF ALL MERCHANDIZES, GOODS, AND OTHER THINGS, AND (D) THE MANAGEMENT AND HOLD OF ALL BUSINESS, AFFAIRS, AND THINGS BELONGING TO THE COMPANY, (8) THE GOVERNOR, THE COMPANY, AND THEIR SUCCESSORS SHALL FOREVER BE RULED, ORDERED, AND GOVERNED ACCORDING TO SUCH MANNER AND FORM AS IS IN THESE PRESENTS EXPRESSED AND NOT OTHERWISE, (9) THEY SHALL HAVE, HOLD, RETAIN, AND ENJOY THE GRANTS, LIBERTIES, PRIVILEGES, JURISDICTIONS, AND IMMUNITIES ONLY IN THESE PRESENTS GRANTED, EXPRESSED, AND NO OTHER, (10) WE ASSIGNE, NOMINATE, CONSTITUTE, AND MAKE OUR SAID COUSIN PRINCE RUPERT TO BE THE FIRST AND PRESENT GOVERNOR OF THE SAID COMPANY, (11) WE GIVE, GRANT, AND CONFIRM THE SOLE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF ALL THOSE SEAS, STREIGHTS, BAYS, RIVERS, LAKES, CREEKS, AND SOUNDS IN WHATSOEVER LATITUDE THAT LIE WITHIN THE ENTRENCE OF THE STREIGHTS TOGETHER WITH ALL THE LANDS AND TERRITORIES UPON THE COUNTRIES, COASTS, AND CONFINES OF THE SEAS, BAYS, LAKES, RIVERS, CREEKS, AND SOUNDS THAT (A) ARE NOT ALREADY ACTUALLY POSSESSED BY, (B) ARE NOT GRANTED TO ANY OF OUR SUBJECTS, OR (C) ARE NOT POSSESSED BY THE SUBJECTS OF ANY OTHER CHRISTIAN PRINCE OR STATE, (12) THE FISHING OF ALL SORTS OF FISH, WHALES, STURGEONS, AND ALL OTHER FISHES IN THE SEAS, BAYS, INLETS, AND RIVERS WITHIN THE PREMISES, (13) ALL MINES OF GOLD, SILVER, GEMS, AND PRECIOUS STONES WITHIN THE TERRITORIES, LIMITS, AND PLACES, (14) THE SAID LAND SHALL BE FROM HENCEFORTH RECKONED AND REPUTED AS ONE OF OUR PLANTATIONS OR COLONIES IN AMERICA CALLED RUPERT'S LAND, (15) WE MAKE, CREATE, AND CONSTITUTE THE SAID GOVERNOR, COMPANY, AND THEIR SUCCESSORS THE TRUE AND ABSOLUTE LORDS AND PROPRIETORS OF ALL THE TERRITORIES, LIMITS, AND PLACES AFORESAID, (16) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Charles II

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (12), AND (16).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) WE SHOULD IN NO WAY SEEM TO SATISFY OURSELVES WITH THE DIVINE GLORY THAT REFLETS FROM THESE EXPLOITS THAT A HEALTHY EMULATION URGES US NOT ONLY TO ACCOMPLISH BUT TO INCREASE, (2) THIS KING LOUIS—WITH THE HELP OF GO—HAD ACQUIRED BY FORCE OF ARMS AND SUBJECTED TO HIS EMPIRE SEVERAL REGIONS AND SEVERAL ISLANDS OF NORTHERN AMERICA, (3) THIS COUNTRY NOW SUBJECT TO HIS [KING LOUIS XIV] AUTHORITY, (4) HE [KING LOUIS XIV] HAD HONORABLY POPULATED IT BY SENDING THERE FROM FRANCE PEOPLE, (5) AS FOR THE NATIVES COMMONLY CALLED IROQUOIS—FIERCE AND BARBAROUS TRIBES ENTIRELY DEVOID OF HUMAN AND DIVINE LAWS—HE HAS ALREADY SUBJUGATED A GREAT NUMBER OF THEM AND STRIVES UNCEASINGLY TO SUBMIT THE OTHERS TO HIMSELF, (6) NEITHER COUNTRIES NOR KINGDOMS CAN SUBSIST UNLESS THEY ARE GOVERNED BY AN AUTHORITY AND RULED BY LAWS, (7) KING LOUIS HAS FURNISHED THIS TERRITORY WITH NUMEROUS TROOPS, (8) HE [KING LOUIS XIV] ESTEEMS THAT IT IS VAIN WORK TO: (A) SUBJUGATE CRUEL BARBARIANS, (B) ADD NEW HONORS TO HIS CROWN, AND (C) TO CONQUER NEW TERRITORIES—EVEN IN DISTANT LANDS; IF—AFTER HAVING DISPLAYED THE BANNERS OF HIS TEMPORAL POWER IN THE CONQUERED REGIONS—HE DOES NOT AT THE SAME TIME PLANT THE ADORABLE STANDARD OF THE MOST HOLY CROSS SO THAT THE INFIDELS—RENOUNCING THE BLINDNESS OF THEIR INFIDELITY—MAY BE CONVERTED AND ONCE CONVERTED BE INSTRUCTED IN THE CATHOLIC FAITH, (9) HE [KING LOUIS XIV] CAN NOT ATTAIN THIS SO GREATLY DESIRED RESULT UNLESS THERE BE IN THESE REGIONS A PASTOR WHO PRESIDE OVER THE CARE OF SOULS AND OF CHURCHES—WHO MAY ESTABLISH THEREIN ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTERS, (10) OUR GREATEST SOLICITUDE IS TO SEE THE CATHOLIC FAITH FLOURISH AND INCREASE EVERYWHERE TO MAKE KNOWN TO THE INFIDELS AND TO BRING THEM TO THE BOSSOM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, (11) OUR GREATEST SOLICITUDE IS TO SEE THE CATHOLIC FAITH FLOURISH AND INCREASE EVERYWHERE TO MAKE KNOWN TO THE INFIDELS AND TO BRING THEM TO THE BOSSOM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, (12) AFTER HAVING MATURELY DELIBERATED WITH OUR BROTHERS—THE CARDINALS OF THE HOLY ROMAN CHURCH—BY THEIR ADVICE AND ASSENT: WE—TO THE GLORY OF HIS MOST GLORIOUS MOTHER THE VIRGIN MARY—DECORATE WITH THE NAME, TITLE, AND DIGNITY OF A CITY—THE AFOREMENTIONED TOWN—AND BY VIRTUE OF OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY: WE ERECT AND CONSTITUTE IT IN PERPETUITY AS A CITY WHICH SHALL BE CALLED QUEBEC, (13) BY VIRTUE OF OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY AND AFTER HAVING SUPPRESSED AND EXTINGUISHED IN PERPETUITY ITS TITLE AND DENOMINATION AS A PARISH CHURCH: WE ERECT AND CONSTITUTE IT IN PERPETUITY AS A CATHEDRAL CHURCH IMMEDIATELY SUBORDINATE TO THE APOSTOLIC SEE, (14) THE FUTURE BISHOP SHALL ENSURE THAT THE CARE OF SOULS OF THE SUPRESSED PARISH CHURCH IS PROVIDED BY THE CURRENT RECTOR FOR THE DURATION OF HIS LIFE IF HE CONSENTS TO IT, (15) EACH AND ALL OF THE CERTAIN AND UNCERTAIN REVENUES BEING RESERVED FOR HIM [THE BISHOP] AS LONG AS HE LIVES, (16) WE ATTRIBUTE AND ASSIGN THE SAID CITY OF QUEBEC FOR HIS EPISCOPAL CITY AND FOR HIS DIOCESE: (A) THE LANDS, (B) THE TOWNS, AND (C) THE PLACES THAT ARE AT PRESENT OR THAT SHALL BE OVER TIME—IN THE SAID COUNTRY UNDER THE TEMPORAL DOMAIN OF THE SAID KING LOUIS AND WHICH ARE NOT NOW SUBJECT TO THE SPIRITUAL JURISDICTION OF ANY BISHOP—ACCORDING TO THE BOUNDARIES AND THE LIMITS THAT THE SAME KING LOUIS SHALL DESIGNATE, (17) THE APOSTOLIC SEE SHALL APPROVE FOR HIS [KING LOUIS XIV] PEOPLE AND HIS DIOCESANS—THE CITIZENS AND POPULATION OF THE CITY OF QUEBEC WITH ALL THE (A) MEN, (B) INHABITANTS, (C) SUBJECTS OF THE LANDS, TOWNS, AND OTHER PLACES OF THE SAME COUNTRY, AND FOR HIS (D) CLERGY—THE ECCLESIASTICS IN THE SERVICE OF HIS PEOPLE AND OF THESE DIOCESANS, (18) AS FOR WHAT REGARDS THE ORGANIZATION, THE FUNCTIONING, THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE CONDUCT OF THE SAID CHURCH OF QUEBEC: WE GRANT TO THE BISHOP FACULTY TO (A) ENACT—CONFORMABLE TO THE HOLY CANONS, THE DECREES OF THE COUNCILS, AND APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS, (B) LIMIT, (C) CORRECT, (D) EXPLAIN, (E) INTERPRET THEM, (F) REDRAFT THEM IN BETTER FORM, (G) EVEN CHANGE THEM ENTIRELY ACCORDING TO THE DIVERSITY OF TIMES AND THE NECESSITY OF CIRCUMSTANCES, AND (H) HAVE THEM OBSERVED BY THOSE WHO WILL BE BOUND BY THEM UNDER PENALTY OF SANCTION AGAINST THOSE WHO CONTRAVENE THEM, (19) TO THE BISHOP AND TO THOSE WHO IN THE SAID CHURCH OF QUEBEC SHALL OBTAIN DIGNITARIES AND TO THE OTHER PERSON AND MINISTERS WHO SHALL BE ATTACHED TO THIS CHURCH BY VIRTUE OF OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY: WE GRANT TO USE AND ENJOY PROPERTIES AND GOODS AND BE ABLE TO USE AND ENJOY IN THE FUTURE, (20) WE RESERVE, CONCEDE, AND ASSIGN IN PERPETUITY TO THE SAME KING LOUIS AND TO HIS SUCCESSORS THE RIGHT TO NOMINATE TO THE AFORESAID CHURCH OF QUEBEC WHENEVER BY RESIGNATION, DEATH, OR OTHERWISE THIS CHURCH SHALL BE DEPRIVED FOR A TIME OF THE CONSULATION OF A PASTOR, (21) TO HIM WHO SHALL HAVE OR TO THOSE WHO SHALL HAVE—UPON THE DECISION OF THE BISHOP—FOUNDED AND ENDOWED OUT OF THEIR OWN PROPERTY ANY DIGNITARIES, CANONRIES, PREBENDS, AND OTHER ECCLESIASTICAL BENEFICES AND MINISTRIES: WE RESERVE, CONCEDE, AND ASSIGN IN PERPETUITY THE RIGHT OF PATRONAGE UNDER THE PROVISO THAT THE NOMINATION TO THE CHURCH OF QUEBEC MUST BE MADE TO US, TO THE ROMAN PONTIF OUR SUCCESSOR, OR BY KING LOUIS AND HIS SUCCESSORS, (22) WE DECREE THAT THE PRESENT LETTERS MAY NEVER AT ANY TIME BE CHALLENGED WICH FURTHERMORE MAY NOT BE REOPENED FOR DISCUSSION AND NO RESOURCES SHALL BE ALLEGED AGAINST THEM, (23) WE COMMAND ALL ORDINARY OR DELEGATED JUDGES TO CONFORM THEMSELVES TO IT IN THEIR DECISIONS AND JUDGEMENTS—DEPRIVING ANY PERSON OF THE POWER AND THE AUTHORITY TO JUDGE AND INTERPRET OTHERWISE, (24) WE DECLARE NULL AND VOID EVERYTHING THAT SHALL BE DONE TO THE DETRIMENT OF THESE PRESENTS REGARDLESS OF WHAT AUTHORITY ONE MIGHT DARE TO CLAIM, (25) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Louis-Dieudonné KING, JESUIT PATRON, & CATHOLIC LAYMAN

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), AND (3).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) WE UNITE AND INCORPORATE TO THE DOMAIN OF OUR CROWN ALL THE LANDS AND COUNTRIES WHICH BELONGED TO THE SAID COMPANY—NAMELY: (A) THE COUNTRIES OF THE MAINLAND OF AMERICA FROM THE AMAZON RIVER TO THAT OF ORINOCO, (B) THE ISLANDS CALLED ANTILLES POSSESSED BY THE FRENCH, (C) CANADA, (D) NEW FRANCE, (E) ACADIA, (F) THE ISLANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, (G) OTHER ISLANDS OF THE MAINLAND FROM THE NORTH OF THE SAID COUNTRY OF CANADA DOWN TO VIRGINIA AND TO FLORIDA, TOGETHER WITH (H) THE COAST OF AFRICA FROM THE CAP VERDE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, (I) THE OWNERSHIP OF THE FORT AND SETTLEMENT OF SENEGAL, (J) THE TRADE OF CAPE VERDE, AND (K) THE GAMBIA RIVER—TO BE MANAGED AS THE OTHER FUNDS AND DOMAINS OF OUR CROWN, (2) WE TAKE IT UPON OURSELVES TO PROVIDE—JUST AS IT DID IN THE PLACES WHERE IT WAS OBLIGED—FOR THE SUBSISTENCE OF (A) CURATES, (B) PRIESTS, AND (C) OTHER ECCLESIASTICS FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIRS OF CHURCHES, ORNAMENTS, AND OTHER NECESSARY EXPENSES FOR DIVINE SERVICE, (3) WITH RESPECT TO THE SEAT OF THE PROVOSTRY AND LOCAL JUSTICE OF QUEBEC—WHICH WE [KING LOUIS XIV AND POPE CLEMENS X] HAVE EXTINGUISHED AND SUPRESSED AND DO EXTINGUISH AND SUPPRESS—WE WILL AND ORDER THAT JUSTICE BE ADMINISTERED THERE BY THE COUNCIL IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, (4) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Louis-Dieudonné KING, JESUIT PATRON, AND ROMAN CATHOLIC LAYMAN

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1678-05-12 CROWN OF FRANCE KING LOUIS XIV AMORTIZATION IN FAVOR OF THE JESUITS NEW FRANCE (QUEBEC, CANADA) Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (3), (4), (5), (6), AND (8).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) OUR DEAR AND GOOD FRIEND OF THE RELIGIOUS COMPANY OF THE JESUITS; RESIDENTS IN OUR COUNTRY OF NEW FRANCE, (2) IN CONSIDERATION OF THE ZEAL THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE SAVAGES; OUR VICEROYS, GENERAL LIEUTENANTS, GOVERNORS OF SAID COUNTRY, AND TOGETHER WITH THE COMPANIES ESTABLISHED FOR COMMERCE HAVE GIVEN IN DIFFERENT TIMES MANY LANDS OF WHICH THEY HAVE ENJOYED AND WHEREBY THEY HAVE MADE CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS NECESSARY FOR THEIR COLLEGE, CHURCH, AND COMMUNITY IN THE VILLAGE OF QUEBEC, (3) IN AS MUCH AS THE SAID LANDS, SITES, AND BUILDINGS HAVE NOT BEEN AMORTIZED BY US, THE PETITIONERS [THE JESUITS] FEARING OF BEING TROUBLED IN THE ENJOYMENT THEREOF; WE HAVE VERY HUMBLY MADE SUPPLICATION THAT IT PLEASES US TO AMORTIZE THEM AND PERMIT THEM TO HOLD IT ALL IN MORTMAIN AND EXEMPT FROM OUR RIGHTS, (4) OF THESE CAUSES; (A) FAVORABLY WILLING TO TREAT THE PETITIONERS [THE JESUITS], (B) CONTRIBUTING AS MUCH AS WE CAN MAKE POSSIBLE, (C) FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD, AND (D) FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CATHOLIC, APOSTOLIC, AND ROMAN RELIGION IN THE SAID COUNTRIES OF CANADA, (5) WE HAVE AGREED, CONFIRMED, AND AMORTIZE ALL OF THE LANDS AND CONCESSIONS THEREOF DECLARED AND THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THE SAID PETITIONERS [THE JESUITS] TOGETHER WITH THE BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED ON THE SAID LANDS WITHOUT THE PETITIONERS [THE JESUITS] EVER HAVING TO BE CONSTRAINED OF DISPOSING IT OF THEIR POSSESSION, (6) NOR THAT THEY BE REQUIRED FOR THE SAID INHERITANCES, PROPERTIES, AND RIGHTS TO (A) PAY ANY DUTY, (B) PAY THE "RIGHTS OF HOMME VIVANT ET MOURANT", (C) DO FAITH AND HOMAGE, (D) PAY INDEMNITY, (E) PAY THE "RIGHTS OF FRANC FIEF", NOR (F) PAY THE "RIGHTS OF NEW ACQUISITIONS" TO US AND TO OUR SUCCESSOR KINGS, (7) ...ON CONDITION THAT THEY PUT ALL THE SAID LANDS IN CULTIVATION AND IN VALUE WITHIN THE NEXT CONSECUTIVE 4 YEARS, (8) THEREFOR WE GIVE IN MANDATION TO OUR BELOVED AND FAITHFUL PERSONS HOLDING OUR SOVEREIGN COUNCIL—ESTABLISHED IN THE CITY OF QUEBEC IN THE SAID COUNTRY OF NEW FRANCE—THAT THEY (A) CAUSE THESE PRESENTS TO BE REGISTERED, AND (B) CAUSE THE PETITIONERS [THE JESUITS] TO ENJOY THE CONTENTS THEREOF ACCORDING TO THE CLAUSES AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED THEREIN; PUTTING AN END TO AND CAUSING TO CEASE ALL TROUBLES AND IMPEDIMENTS WHATSOEVER, (9) , ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Louis-Dieudonné KING, JESUIT PATRON, AND ROMN CATHOLIC LAYMAN

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KEY CLAIM:

(2), (3), AND (5).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) WHEREAS DIVERS JESUIT PRIESTS AND POPISH MISSIONARIES... WHO BY THEIR WICKED AND SUBTLE INSINUATIONS INDUSTRIOUSLY LABOUR TO DEBAUCH, SEDUCE, AND WITHDRAW THE FIRST NATION PEOPLE FROM THEIR DUE OBEDIENCE UNTO HIS MOST SACRED MAJESTY AND TO EXCITE AND STIR THEM UP TO SEDITION, REBELLION, AND OPEN HOSTILITY AGAINST HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT, (2) IT IS HEREBY ENACTED... THAT ALL AND EVERY JESUIT AND SEMINARY PRIEST MISSIONARY OR OTHER SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL PERSON MADE OR ORDAINED BY ANY AUTHORITY POWER OR JURISDICTION DERIVED FROM THE POPE OR SEE OF ROME RESIDING WITHIN THIS PROVINCE SHALL DEPART, (3) THAT ALL AND EVERY JESUIT AND SEMINARY PRIEST MISSIONARY OR OTHER SPIRITUAL OR ECCLESIASTICAL PERSON MADE OR ORDAINED BY ANY AUTHORITY POWER OR JURISDICTION DERIVED FROM THE POPE OR SEE OF ROME RESIDING OR THAT SHALL PROFESS HIMSELF OR OTHERWISE APPEAR TO BE SUCH BY PREACHING & TEACHING OF OTHERS TO SAY ANY POPISH PRAYERS BY CELEBRATING MASSES GRANTING OF ABSOLUTIONS OR USING ANY OTHER OF THE ROMISH CEREMONIES & RITES OF WORSHIP... SHALL BE DEEMED AND ACOUNTED AN INCENDIARY AND DISTURBER OF THE PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY AND AN ENEMY TO THE TRUE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, (4) IT SHALL AND MAY BE LAWFULL TO AND FOR EVERY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE TO CAUSE ANY PERSON OR PERSONS SUSPECTED OF BEING A JESUIT, SEMINARY PRIEST, OR OF THE ROMISH CLERGY TO BE APPREHENDED & CONVENTED, (5) ALSO IT SHALL AND MAY BE LAWFULL TO APPREHEND WITHOUT A WARRANT ANY JESUIT SEMINARY PRIEST OR OTHER OF THE ROMISH CLERGY AND TO CONVENT HIM BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT OR ANY TWO COUNCIL TO BE EXAMINED AND IMPRISONED IN ORDER TO A TRIAL, (6) IT WILL BE ESTEEMED AND ACCEPTED AS A GOOD SERVICE DONE FOR THE KING BY THE PERSON WHO SHALL SEIZE & APPREHEND ANY JESUIT PRIEST MISSIONARY OR ROMISH ECCLESIASTIC, (7) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

General Assembly of the Province of New York

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1746-00-00 FRIARS MINOR PRIEST FERRARIS PAPA WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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1749-02-25 HOLY SEE POPE BENEDICTUS XIV CORPORATION—C.Ss.R. ITALY Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25), (26), AND (27).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) IF JESUS CHRIST WAS TO DESCEND INTO A CHURCH AND SIT IN A CONFESSIONAL TO ADMINISTER THE SACRAMENT OF PENENCE, AND A PRIEST TO SIT IN ANOTHER CONFESSIONAL; JESUS WOULD SAY OVER EACH PENITENT: "EGO TE ABSOLVO", THE PRIEST WOULD LIKEWISE SAY OVER EACH OF HIS PENITENTS: "EGO TE ABSOLVO", AND THE PENITENTS OF EACH WOULD BE EQUALLY ABSOLVED, (2) THE PRIEST HOLDS THE PLACE OF THE SAVIOUR HIMSELF WHEN BY SAYING: "EGO TE ABSOLVO", HE ABSOLVES FROM SIN, (3) WHAT ONLY GOD CAN DO BY HIS OMNIPOTENCE; THE PRIEST CAN ALSO DO BY SAYING: "EGO TE ABSOLVO A PRECCATIS TUIS", (4) HOW GREAT SHOULD BE OUR WONDER IF WE SAW A PERSON INVESTED WITH THE POWER OF CHANGING A NEGRO INTO A WHITE MAN; BUT THE PRIEST DOES WHAT IS FAR MORE WONDERFUL FOR BY SAYING: "EGO TE ABSOLVO", HE CHANGES THE SINNER FROM AN ENEMY INTO THE FRIEND OF GOD, AND FROM THE SLAVE OF HELL INTO AN HEIR OF PARADISE, (5) THE PRIEST IS EXALTED ABOVE ALL EARTHLY SOVEREIGNITIES, (6) PRIESTS ARE TO MANAGE ON EARTH ALL OF GOD'S CONCERNS AND INTERESTS, (7) BY THE CELEBRATION OF A SINGLE MASS; (A) A PRIEST GIVES GREATER HONOR TO THE LORD THAN IF ALL MEN BY DYING FOR GOD OFFERED TO HIM THE SACRIFICE OF THEIR LIVES, AND (B) A PRIEST GIVES GREATER HONOR TO GOD THAN ALL THE ANGELS AND SAINTS, (8) IN THE HOLY MASS, PRIESTLY DIGNITY IS SUPERIOR EVEN TO ALL CELESTIAL DIGNITIES, (9) JESUS HAD DIED TO INSTITUTE THE PRIESTHOOD; IT WAS NOT NECESSARY FOR JESUS TO DIE IN ORDER TO SAVE THE WORLD BUT TO INSTITUTE THE PRIESTHOOD, (10) THE PRIEST HAS THE POWER OF THE KEYS AND THE POWER OF DELIVERING SINNERS FROM HELL; OF MAKING THEM WORTHY OF PARADISE, (11) PRIESTS ARE LIKE THE DOORS OF THE ETERNAL CITY; THROUGH THEM ALL REACH CHRIST, (12) PRIESTS ARE THE STEWARDS OF THE KING'S HOUSE, (13) THE SACERDOTAL DIGNITY OF THE PRIEST SURPASSES THE DIGNITY OF THE ANGELS; WHOM LIKEWISE SHOW THEIR VENERATION FOR THE PRIESTHOOD, (14) ANGELS MAY BE PRESENT, YET THEY WAIT FOR THE PRIEST TO EXCERCISE HIS POWER; BUT NO ONE OF THEM HAS THE POWER OF THE KEYS "THE BINDING AND LOOSENING", (15) THE POWER OF THE PRIEST SURPASSES THAT OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY; SHE CANNOT ABSOLVE A CHRISTIAN FROM EVEN THE SMALLEST SIN, (16) THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY WAS EMINENTLY MORE PERFECT THAN THE APOSTLES, (17) PRIESTS ARE CALLED: "THE PARENTS OF JESUS CHRIST"; SUCH IS THEIR TITLE FOR THEY ARE THE ACTIVE CAUSE BY WHICH HE IS MADE TO EXIST AND THEREFORE MAY BE CALLED THE CREATOR OF HIS CREATOR, (18) BY SAYING THE WORDS OF CONSECRATION; THE PRIEST CREATES JESUS IN THE SACRAMENT BY GIVING HIM A SACRAMENTAL EXISTENCE AND PRODUCES HIM AS A VICTIM TO BE OFFERED TO THE ETERNAL FATHER, (19) AS THE WORD OF GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH; SO DOES THE WORDS OF THE PRIEST CREATE JESUS CHRIST, (20) PRIESTS ARE CALLED VICARS OF JESUS CHRIST BECAUSE THEY HOLD HIS PLACE ON EARTH, (21) PRIESTS ARE THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PERSON OF GOD ON EARTH, (22) TO SANCTIFY A SINNER IS A GREATER WORK THAN TO CREATE HEAVEN AND EARTH, (23) IT IS THE PRIEST WHO, IN GIVING ABSOLUTION; EXERTS THE ARM OF AND VOICE OF GOD, BY WHICH HE RESCUES SOULS FROM HELL, (24) A PRIEST, IN ABSOLVING A SINNER; PERFORMS THE VERY OFFICE OF THE HOLY GHOST IN THE SANCTIFICATION OF SOULS, (25) ST. CLEMENT HAD REASON TO SAY THAT THE PRIEST IS, AS IT WERE; A GOD ON EARTH, (26) IT IS NOT TOO MUCH TO SAY THAT IN VIEW OF THE SUBLIMITY OF THEIR OFFICES, THE PRIESTS ARE SO MANY GODS, (27) ETC.

Person Icon. CLAIMANT:

Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris | Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Alphonsus Maria de Liguori ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP, ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, AND ROMAN CATHOLIC SAINT

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1778-07-09 U.S.A CONGRESS CONFEDERATION—CANADA INVITED CANADA Flag_Canada.

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1850-09-29 HOLY SEE POPE PIUS IX UNIVERSALIS ECCLESIAE ENGLAND Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (8), (12), AND (13).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) IN THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND; THERE SHALL BE A SINGLE ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE CONSTITUETED BY ONE ARCHBISHP AND TWELVE BISHOPS, (2) THE CATHOLIC ESTATE SHALL HAVE FRUITFUL AND DAILY INCREASING EXTENSION, (3) WE RESERVE THE POWER OF; DIVIDING THE ECCLESIASTIC PROVINCE INTO MORE THAN ONE, INCREASING THE NUMBER OF DIOCESES AS OCCASION SHALL REQUIRE, AND FREELY DECREEING NEW BOUNDARIES, (4) WE SHALL CONTINUE TO AVAIL OURSELVES IN ADMINISTRATING ALL MATTERS APPERTAINING TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCHES, (5) THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS OF ENGLAND SHALL ENJOY ALL THE RIGHTS AND FACULTIES AS OTHER CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CANONS AND APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS AND SHALL BE EQUALLY BOUND BY THOSE OBLIGATIONS, (6) WHATEVER REGULATIONS IN THE ANCIENT SYSTEM OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCHES OR IN THE SUBSEQUENT STATE OF THE MISSION THAT MAY HAVE BEEN IN FORCE; SHALL HENCEFORTH CARRY NO RIGHT AND NO OBLIGATION, (7) WE—BY THE PLENITUDE OF OUR APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY—TAKE AWAY AND ABROGATE ALL POWER WHATSOEVER OF IMPOSING OBLIGATION AND CONFERRING RIGHT FROM PECULIAR CONSTITUTIONS AND PRIVILEDGES—ALL CUSTOMS—AND EVEN THE MOST ANCIENT AND IMMEMORIAL ONES, (8) OUR PRINCIPLE OBJECT—THE RESTORATION OF THE ORDINARY HIERARCHY OF BISHOPS—HAS BEEN TO CONSULT THE WELL-BEING AND EXTENSION OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD, (9) IN THE SUCCESSIVE AUGMENTING OF THE NUMBERS OF VICARS AND VICARIAL DISTRICTS, THE CATHOLIC ESTATE IN ENGLAND LOOKS FORWARD TO ITS EXTENSION IN PROCESS OF TIME TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE ULTIMATE RESTORATION OF THE ORDINARY HIERARCHY THERE, (10) IT IS GRANTED TO SUCH OUR INSUFFICIENT DESERTS TO RENEW EPISCOPAL SEES IN ENGLAND, (11) THIS RESTORATION WHICH WE MAKE OF EPISCOPAL DIOCESE IN THAT KINGDOM MAY REDOUND TO THE BENEFIT OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION, (12) THESE—OUR LETTERS APOSTOLIC—MAY NEVER AT ANY TIME BE OBJECTED AGAINST OR IMPUGNED; BUT SHALL ALWAYS BE VALID, IN FORCE, OUGHT TO TAKE EFFECT IN ALL PARTICULARS, AND BE INVIOLABLY OBSERVED, (13) IF IN ANY OTHER MANNER ANY ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE BY ANY PERSON OR AUTHORITY TO SET ASIDE THESE ENACTMENTS, KNOWINGLY OR IGNORANTLY; SUCH ATTEMPT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID, (14) ETC.

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Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (6), (8), (10), (11), (12), AND (13).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) TO BIND ALL NATIONS AND ALL PEOPLES MORE CLOSELY TOGETHER WITH US, AND TO PLACE IN VIEW THE POWER OF THE ROMAN PONTIFICATE, SALUTARY TO ALL PARTS, (2) [NON CATHOLICS] ALIEN TO THE CONSENSUS OF THOSE EAGER CATHOLICS PARTLY BECAUSE THEY ARE ENTIRELY WITHOUT THE EVANGELICAL WISDOM—ALTHOUGH INITIATED BY THE NAME CHRISTIAN—DISSENT THE CATHOLIC FAITH; FOR WHICH THIS MATTER WE ARE GRAVELY MOVED (3) WE HOLD UPON THIS EARTH THE PLACE OF GOD ALMIGHTY, (4) TO THIS DAY THEY [EUROPE] FREQUENTLY CROSS THE SEAS GOING FORTH TO THE REMOTEST PLACES AS EVANGELICAL HERALDS BY OUR AUTHORITY ...IN ORDER TO AMPLIFY THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST [ROME] THAT THEY MAY NOT HESITATE TO DEVOTE, (5) THE EXPECTATION OF OUR DESIRE BIDS US TO BEGIN A JOYFUL HOPE THAT IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE THE EASTERN CHURCHES RETURN FROM WHERE THEY HAVE DEPARTED, (6) THAT DIVINE TESTIMONY OF CHRIST: "YOU AR PETER, AND UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH" IS CLEARLY MANIFEST AND CONFIRMED IN THE ROMAN PONTIFFS, (7) MOVED BY THE DESIRE FOR THE COMMON SALVATION, WE URGE RECONCILIATION AND UNION WITH THE ROMAN CHURCH—AND BY UNION, WE MEAN A FULL AND PERFECT UNION, (8) MANY OF THOSE ABOUT WHOM WE SPEAK OF SOUND JUDGEMENT AND EAGER FOR THE TRUTH SOUGHT THE CERTAIN WAY OF SALVATION IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SINCE THEY CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY COULD IN NO WAY BE JOINED WITH JESUS CHRIST AS THEIR HEAD UNLESS THEY ADHERED TO HIS BODY—WHICH IS THE CHURCH [CHURCH ROME], (9) THESE MEN—NAMELY IN THE ROMAN CHURCH—BEHELD THE EXPRESS FORM AND IMAGE OF THE TRUE CHURCH ...WHO HAVE ILLUSTRATED BY OUTSTANDING WRITINGS THE ROMAN CHURCH'S CONTINUITY FROM THE APOSTLES, THE INTEGRITY OF ITS DOCTRINES, AND THE CONSTANCY OF ITS DISCIPLINE, (10) THE CHURCH—AS THE COMMON MOTHER OF ALL—HAS LONG BEEN CALLING YOU BACK TO HER, (11) WE MEAN CATHOLICS—WHOM THE PROFESSION OF THE ROMAN FAITH RENDERS THEM OBEDEIENT TO THE APOSTOLIC SEE—THUS PRESERVES UNION WITH JESUS CHRIST, (12) AND ABOVE ALL, LET THEM [CATHOLICS] LAY DOWN FOR THEMSELVES AS THEIR SUPREME LAW THAT THEY MUST OBEY THE MAGISTRATE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH IN ALL MATTERS; NOT IN A NARROW OR DISTRUSTFUL MANNER BUT WITH THEIR WHOLE SOUL AND PROMPTITUDE OF VOLITION, (13) AND SINCE IT [CHURCH OF ROME] IS A PERFECT SOCIETY—AS WE HAVE SAID—IT THEREFORE POSSESSES THE FORCE AND VIRTUE OF LIFE WHICH IS NOT DRAWN FROM OUTSIDE BUT RATHER IMPLANTED BY DIVINE DESIGN AND BY ITS OWN NATURE ...IT HAS AN INNATE POWER OF MAKING LAWS AND IN MAKING OF THOSE LAWS IT IS RIGHT THAT IT BE SUBJECT TO NO ONE, (14) IF IN ANY OTHER MANNER ANY ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE BY ANY PERSON OR AUTHORITY TO SET ASIDE THESE ENACTMENTS, KNOWINGLY OR IGNORANTLY; SUCH ATTEMPT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID, (15) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci

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1896-09-13 HOLY SEE POPE LEO XIII ANGLICAN ORDINATIONS ENGLAND Global Icon.

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1903-08-09 HOLY SEE ROMAN CURIA CORONATION RITE WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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1913-02-15 H.R. CONTESTANT EUGENE C. BONNIWELL REPUDIATION OF THE K. of C. OATH U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Global Icon.

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1933-07-20 HOLY SEE POPE PIUS XI REICHSKONKORDAT GERMANY Global Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (3), (7), (8), (9), (11), (14), (17), (18), (19), (21), (23), (24), (25), (26), (28), (29), AND (30).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) A CONSOLIDATION OF THE HOLY SEE AND THE GERMAN REICH, (2) A GUARANTEE FREEDOM TO THE PUBLIC PRACTICE OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION WITHIN THE GERMAN REICH, (3) THE RIGHT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO REGULATE AND ADMINISTER HER OWN AFFAIRS INDEPENDENTLY, (4) AN APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO BE ESTABLISHED IN THE CAPITAL OF THE GERMAN REICH AND AN AMBASSADOR OF THE GERMAN REICH AT THE HOLY SEE, (5) PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES MAY BE PUBLISHED WITHOUT HINDRANCE, (6) THE CLERGY ARE TO ENJOY THE PROTECTION OF THE STATE, (7) THE CLERGY AND MEMBERS OF ORDERS ARE EXEMPT FROM THE OBLIGATION OF TAKING PUBLIC OFFICES, (8) THE OFFICIAL INCOME OF THE CLERGY IS EXEMPT FROM ATTACHEMENT, (9) THE CLERGY MAY NOT BE REQUIRED BY AUTHORITIES TO GIVE INFORMATION CONCERNING FACTS AND ARE THEREFORE UNDER PASTORAL OBLIGATION TO PRESERVE SECRECY, (10) ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICES MAY BE FREELY ESTABLISHED AND CHANGED PROVIDED EXPENDITURES OF THE STATE ARE NOT REQUIRED, (11) THE CHURCH HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS FREELY TO ALL CHURCH OFFICES AND BENEFICES WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION OF THE STATE NOR OF THE CICVIL COMMUNITIES, (12) CATHOLIC CLERGY WHO HOLD ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE MUST; (A) HAVE A DIPLOMA OF HIGH INSTITUTION OF LEARNING, (B) HAVE AT LEAST 3 YEARS OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDY, (13) ORDERS AND RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO NO SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE PART OF THE STATE, (14) BUILDINGS USED FOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES MAY NOT BE DESTROYED FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, (15) THE CHURCH HAVE THE RIGHT TO ESTABLISH FOR THE TRAINING OF THE CLERGY; PHILOSPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES, (16) THE ESTABLISHMENT, DIRECTION, AND ADMINISTRATION OF PRIEST SEMINARIES AND CHURCH HOSTELS SHALL BE LEFT EXCLUSIVELY TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES, (17) CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONS IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOLS, VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, AND HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IS; (A) TO BE A REGULAR SUBJECT OF INSTRUCTIONS, AND (B) TO BE TAUGHT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, (18) THE SELECTION OF TEXTBOOKS FOR RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IS TO BE DETERMINED IN AGREEMENT WITH THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES, (19) RELIGIOUS TEACHERS DECLARED UNSUITABLE BY THE BISHOP MAY NOT BE EMPLOYED AS TEACHERS OF RELIGION, (20) THE RETENTION OF CATHOLIC DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW ONES IS GUARANTEED AS HERETOFORE, (21) IN ALL CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS, ONLY SUCH TEACHERS BELONGING TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ARE TO BE EMPLOYED, (22) ORDERS ARE ENTITLED TO ESTABLISH AND CONDUCT PRIVATE SCHOOLS, (23) THE GERMAN REICH ARMY IS GRANTED ITS OWN INDEPENDENT CATHOLIC PASTORAL CARE FOR THE CATHOLIC OFFICERS, OFFICIALS, AND ENLISTED MEN; AND AS WELL AS FOR THEIR FAMILIES, (24) THE ARMY BISHOP IS APPOINTED BY THE HOLY SEE, (25) THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHAPLAINS AND OTHER MILITARY CLERGY IS MADE BY THE ARMY BISHOP, (26) CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETIES WHICH SERVE EXCLUSIVELY, PURELY, AND ARE SUBORDINATE TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES WILL BE PROTECTED IN THEIR ESTABLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES, (27) MATTERS PERTANING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN DEALT WITH IN THESE ARTICLES WILL BE REGULATED FOR THE ECCLESIASTICAL SPHERE IN ACCORDANCE TO CANON LAW, (28) THE RIGHT OF THE CHURCH TO LEVY TAXES REMAINS GUARANTEED, (29) IN THE EVENT OF A REORGANIZATION OF THE GERMAN MILITARY SYSTEM BY THE INTRODUCTION OF GENERAL MILITARY SERVICE; THE STUDENTS OF PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY WHO ARE IN CHURCH INSTITUTIONS ARE EXEMPT FROM MILITARY SERVICE, (30) IN THE EVENT OF GENERAL MOBILIZATION; THE CLERGY WHO ARE ENGAGED IN DIOCESAN ADMINISTRATION AND IN PASTORAL WORK ARE EXEMPT FROM REPORTING FOR SERVICE, (31) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (9), (10), AND (13).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) AT THE COST OF SWEAT AND BLOOD, JACQUES CARTIER PLANTED THE CROSS ON THE SHORES OF THE SAINT LAWRENCE; AND ON EVERY POINT HE LANDED ON, JESUS TOOK POSSESSION OF YOUR LAND WITH HIS CROSS AND WITH HIS MOTHER, (2) A RE-DEDICATION OF THE COUNTRY TO THE MARY IMMACULATE, (3) THE CARDINAL LEGATE OF CANADA IS TO BE THE SHEPHERED OF THE SOULS OF THE MEN/WOMEN OF CANADA, (4) BY THE CROWNING ACT OF THE CARDINAL LEGATE OF CANADA AND THROUGH THE DIOCESE OF OTTAWA WILL BE THE CONSECRATION OF EVERY TOWN, CITY, AND PROVINCE TO MARRY, (5) MARY IS THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, (6) MARTYRS OF THE ORDERS ARE ALL DEVOTED TO THE CULT AND SERVICE OF THE MOTHER OF GOD, (7) FROM ONE OCEAN TO THE OTHER AND OVER THE WHOLE EXTENT OF THE COUNTRY SHINES THE MATERNAL SMILE OF MARY, (8) THE MORNING STAR SHONE UPON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN CANADA, (9) INSINUATION THAT THE POSITION OF THE POPE IS OF THE KING OF KINGS, (10) A PENETRATION FAR INTO THE TERRITORIES OF THE FIRST NATION TO CONVERT MEN/WOMEN AND TO ESTABLISH CITIES FOR THE WORSHIP OF MARY, (11) MARY ALONE TRANSCENDS HEAVEN AND EARTH, (12) MARY'S NOT ONLY THE MOTHER OF GOD BUT ALSO THE MOTHER OF ALL, (13) THE MEN/WOMEN OF CANADA ARE TO (A) VINDICATE THE IMACULATE MOTHER, AND (B) MAKE THEIR HOMES CATHOLIC, (14) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), AND (3).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) THE MOST REVEREND LORD MAURICE ROY EARNESTLY REQUESTED THAT THE ANCIENT AND HIGHLY DISTINGUISHED METROPOLITAN ARCHDIOCESE OF QUEBEC MIGHT BE HONORED WITH: (A) THE TITLE OF THE PRIMATIAL SEE OF ALL CHURCHES OF THE ENTIRE CANADIAN DOMAIN, AND (B) ITS ARCHBISHOPS—FOR THE TIME BEING—MIGHT BE ADORNED WITH THE APPELLATION OF "PRIMATE", (2) THE CHURCH OF QUEBEC EXCELS IN ANTIQUITY ALL OTHERS EXISTING IN NORTH AMERICA—WHOSE JURISDICTION INDEED STOOD OPEN SO WIDE THROUGHOUT MANY YEARS—THAT IT NOT ONLY EMBRACED THE ENTIRE BORDERS OF THE CANADIAN DOMAIN BUT ALSO HELD A PART OF THE TERRITORY BELONGING AT PRESENT TO THE UNITED STATES IN NORTH AMERICA, (3) ALL ECCLESIASTICAL CIRCUMSCRIPTION [DIOCESE] IN THE CANADIAN DOMAIN AND MANY ESTABLISHED AT THIS TIME IN THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA PROCEED FROM THE CHURCH OF QUEBEC AS DAUGHTERS FROM A MOTHER, (4) FROM THE FULLNESS OF APOSTOLIC POWER BY THE PRESENT CONSISTORIAL DECREE: (A) DECREES TO DECORATE IN PERPETUITY THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH OF QUEBEC WITH THE TITLE OF PRIMATIAL SEE—FOR HONOR'S SAKE ONLY—OF ALL CHURCHES OF THE ENTIRE CANADIAN DOMAIN, AND (B) ITS PRELATES—EXISTING FOR THE TIME BEING—WITH THE TITLE OF PRIMATE—FOR HONOR'S SAKE ONLY—IN PERPETUITY REMAINING FIRM AND INVIOLATE—WHICH CANON 271 OF THE CODE OF CANON LAW PRESCRIBES—SO THAT HEREAFTER HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST REVEREND LORD MAURICE ROY AND HIS LEGITIMATE SUCCESSORS WILL BE ABLE RIGHTFULLY AND DESERVEDLY TO USE THE TITLE OF PRIMATE OF THE CANADIAN DOMAIN, (5) THE PRESENT CONSISTORIAL DECREE: (A) TO BE PUBLISHED, AND (B) TO BE IN FORCE JUST AS IF APOSTOLIC LETTERS UNDER LEAD [A PAPAL BULL] HAD BEEN GIVEN, (6) ETC.

Person Icon. VASSAL:

Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli

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1958-11-04 HOLY SEE POPE IOANNES XXII CORONATION ADDRESS WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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1960-09-12 U.S. SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY HOUSTON MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION SPEECH UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Global Icon.

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1996-10-31 VICTIM CATHLEEN A. O'BRIEN TESTIMONY OF A CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER CANADA Global Icon.

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1999-05-14 HOLY SEE POPE IOANNES PAULUS II KISSING THE QURAN WORLDWIDE Live Venue Icon.

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2007-03-14 HOLY SEE POPE BENEDICTUS XVI SAINT IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH WORLDWIDE Global Icon.

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2015-01-08 M.D. ANTHONY S. FAUCI JESUIT EDUCATION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Global Icon.

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2025-02-27 HOLY SEE USCCB PLAINTIFF—CASE ON IMMIGRATION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA American Flag Icon.

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KEY CLAIM:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), AND (8).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) THE SUSPENSION CONTINUES TO INFLICT IRREPARABLE HARM ON THE USCCB... —PREVENTING THE USCCB FROM RECEIVING THE FUNDS NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT ITS MISSION TO ASSIST THE REFUGEES, (2) IT ALSO CAUSES IRREPARABLE HARM—INCLUDING FRUSTRATION—OF THE USCCB'S MISSION TO ASSIST REFUGEES ALREADY IN ITS PROGRAMS, (3) THE USCCB RECEIVED TWO NOTIFICATIONS FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT INDICATING THAT ITS COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS HAVE BEEN IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED AS OF FEBRUARY 27TH 2025 BECAUSE THEY NO LONGER EFFECTUATE AGENCY PRIORITIES [THE GOALS, POLICIES, AND PREFERENCES OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT], (4) IT REAFFIRMED THE GOVERNMENT'S VIEW THAT THE COSTS THE USCCB INCURRED AFTER THE JANUARY 24 REFUGEE FUNDING SUSPENSION ARE NOT REIMBURSABLE, (5) THE TERMINATION NOTICE TREATS THE SUSPENSION AS WHAT RENDERS POST-JANUARY 24 EXPENSES NON-REIMBURSABLE, (6) THE TERMINATION NOTICE IS ITSELF UNLAWFUL FOR MANY OF THE SAME REASONS AS THE SUSPENSION. IT ALSO PURPORTS TO END FUNDING FOR THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES WHO HAVE ALREADY ARRIVED AND BEEN PLACED IN THE USCCB'S PROGRAMS, (7) LIKE THE SUSPENSION, THE TERMINATION EFFECTS A GOVERNMENT-WIDE REFUSAL TO SPEND FUNDS THAT CONGRESS APPROPRIATED FOR A STATUTORILY MANDATED PURPOSE BASED ON A POLICY DISAGREEMENT, (8) THE TERMINATION WILL CAUSE IRREPARABLE HARM TO THE USCCB BY PREVENTING IT FROM FULFILLING ITS CORE MISSION BY ASSISTING REFUGEES WHOM THE GOVERNMENT ALREADY HAS PLACED IN ITS CARE, (9) ETC.

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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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KEY CLAIMS:

(1), (2), (3), (4), AND (5).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) FOUR GREAT BEASTS CAME UP FROM THE SEA—DIVERSE ONE FROM ANOTHER, (2) THE FIRST WAS LIKE A LION AND HAD EAGLE'S WINGS; ...IT WAS LIFTED UP FROM THE EARTH, MADE TO STAND UPON THE FEET AS A MAN, AND A MAN'S HEART WAS GIVEN TO IT, (3) BEHOLD ANOTHER BEAST—A SECOND—LIKE TO A BEAR; IT HAD THREE RIBS IN THE MOUTH OF IT BETWEEN THE TEETH OF IT, AND THEY SAID THUS UNTO IT: "ARISE, DEVOUR MUCH FLESH", (4) AND LO ANOTHER—LIKE A LEOPARD—WHICH HAD UPON THE BACK OF IT FOUR WINGS OF A FOWL; THE BEAST HAD ALSO FOUR HEADS, AND DOMINION WAS GIVEN TO IT, (5) AND BEHOLD A FOURTH BEAST—DREADFUL, TERRIBLE, AND STRONG EXCEEDINGLY; IT HAD GREAT IRON TEETH, IT DEVOURED AND BROKE IN PIECES AND STAMPED THE REMNANT WITH THE FEET OF IT, IT WAS DIVERSE FROM ALL THE BEASTS THAT WERE BEFORE IT, AND IT HAD TEN HORNS, (6) ETC.

Person Icon. SIGNIFICANCE:

• FIRST BEAST = BABYLONIAN EMPIRE. • SECOND BEAST = PERSIAN EMPIRE. • THIRD BEAST = MACEDONIAN EMPIRE. • FOURTH BEAST = ROMAN EMPIRE. • TEN HORNS = EUROPE = ALAMANI, BURGONDIANS, FRANKS, LOMBARDS, SAXONS, SUEVI, VISIGOTHS, HERULI, OSTROGOTHS, AND VANDALS.

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CEPHER CHIZAYON—REVELATION 13 BEAST—CHARACTERISTICS

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KEY CLAIMS:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), AND (9).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

CLAIM: (1) AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA AND SAW A BEAST RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA HAVING SEVEN HEADS, TEN HORNS, AND UPON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS, (2) THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD; HIS FEET WERE AS THE FEET OF A BEAR, AND HIS MOUTH AS THE MOUTH OF A LION; THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, HIS SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORITY, (3) I SAW ONE OF HIS HEADS AS IT WERE WOUNDED; HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED, (4) ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST. THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON WHICH GAVE POWER UNTO THE BEAST AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE BEAST SAYING: "WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM?", (5) THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES; POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS, (6) HE OPENED HIS MOUTH IN BLASPHEMY AGAINST YAHUAH TO BLASPHEME HIS NAME, HIS TABERNACLE, AND THEM THAT DWELL IN HEAVEN, (7) IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE QODESHIYM [SAINTS] AND TO OVERCOME THEM; POWER WAS GIVEN TO HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS, TONGS, AND NATIONS, (8) ALL THAT DWELL UPON THE EARTH SHALL WORSHIP HIM—WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE CEPHER OF LIFE, (9) ETC.

Person Icon. SIGNIFICANCE:

• SEA = NATION. • HORN = KINGDOM/KING. • CROWN = KING/KINGDOM. • FORTY AND TWO MONTHS = 1'260 YEARS. • TEN HORNS = ALAMANI, BURGONDIANS, FRANKS, LOMBARDS, SAXONS, SUEVI, VISIGOTHS, HERULI, OSTROGOTHS, AND VANDALS. • DRAGON GAVE THE BEAST POWER = CONSTANTINE I AND JUSTINIAN I OF ROME TRANSMITTING POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER TO THE HOLY SEE. • WOUNDED TO DEATH AND HIS DEADLY WOUND WAS HEALED = APPROX. THE TIME OF NAPOLEON AND THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. • ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST AND WORSHIPPED THE BEAST = THE VATICAN AND THEIR POPES. • BLASPHEMIES = CLAIMING TO: BE GOD, BE REPLACEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST, FORGIVE SINS, GRANT/REFUSE SALVATION, WORSHIP DIETIES AND GRAVEN IMAGES, VENERATE MORTAL MEN/WOMEN, ETC.

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CEPHER DANIY'EL—DANIEL 7 LITTLE HORN—CHARACTERISTICS

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KEY CLAIMS:

(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), AND (6).

BRIEF SYNOPSIS:

(1) I CONSIDERED THE HORNS AND BEHOLD THERE CAME UP AMONG THEM ANOTHER LITTLE HORN BEFORE WHOM THERE WERE THREE OF THE FIRST HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS, (2) THIS HORN WERE EYES LIKE THE EYES OF MAN AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS, (3) AND OF THE TEN HORNS THAT WERE IN HIS HEAD AND OF THE OTHER WHICH CAME UP WHOM THREE FELL; EVEN OF THAT HORN THAT HAD EYES AND A MOUTH THAT SPOKE VERY GREAT THINGS WHOSE LOOK WAS MORE STOUT THAN HIS FELLOWS, (4) THE SAME HORN MADE WAR WITH THE QODESHIYM [SAINTS] AND PREVAILED AGAINST THEM, (5) HE SHALL SPEAK GREAT WORDS AGAINST EL ELYON AND SHALL WEAR OUT THE QODESHIYM [SAINTS] OF EL ELYON AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS, (6) THEY [THE SAINTS] SHALL BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND [THE BEAST] UNTIL A PERIOD OF TIME, TIMES, AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME, (7) ETC.

Person Icon. SIGNIFICANCE:

• THREE HORNS PLUCKED UP BY THE ROOTS = HERULI, OSTROGOTHS, AND VANDALS. • EYES OF A MAN AND A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS = FIGURE OF A MAN. • SPEAKING GREAT THINGS = BLASPHEMING. • CHANGE TIMES = e.g., GREGORIAN CALENDAR. • CHANGE LAWS = e.g., SATURDAY SABBATH TO SUNDAY. • TIME, TIMES, AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME = 1'260 YEARS. • TEN HORNS = ALAMANI, BURGONDIANS, FRANKS, LOMBARDS, SAXONS, SUEVI, VISIGOTHS, HERULI, OSTROGOTHS, AND VANDALS.

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CEPHER MATTITHYAHU—MATTHEW 23:9 VENERATION