ONE MINUTE HISTORY - November 18, 2022

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Published on November 18, 2022 4:00:32 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilXoW7rMoXs

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On this day, an ambitious pope made his most ostentatious claim to power. On November 18, 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued Unam Sanctam, a papal bull arguing that there was no salvation outside of the Catholic Church and that the spiritual power of the pope was therefore superior to the temporal power of any king. Boniface had previously forbidden Catholic priests from paying taxes to any secular ruler without permission as a result of King Philip IV of France levying extremely harsh taxes on the clergy. Unam Sanctam took this a step further and caused the feud between Boniface and King Philip to come to a head. Philip hired 2000 mercenaries who stormed the pope’s palace and took him prisoner for three humiliating days. Boniface died shortly after being freed but his infamous memory lived on, and Dante Aligheri’s Inferno would later portray him as destined to be punished in the eighth ring of Hell.