#OTD in 1300 Pope Boniface VIII (d. 1303, a bad man-see Dante) called a Jubilee.He issued a decree "all human creatures are subject to the Roman pontiff,"drawing ire from Fra&Eng.His palace at Anagni was looted& burned.Beaten,he died a month later.So began the Avignon Papacy, which gets a bad rap.
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