NOUN
- pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters (1235-1303)
How To Use Boniface VIII In A Sentence
- This interdict, which is borrowed, except for a few minor modifications, from c. viii, "De privilegiis", in VI of Boniface VIII, is therefore reserved to the competent prelate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
- Boniface VIII also issued a supplement of decretals that were promulgated in 1298 and attached to the compilation of Gregory.
- This point of view was supported by Celestine V, the disgraced predecessor of Boniface VIII.
- Among these popes is Boniface VIII, who died in 1303 and whose body was also found incorrupt in 1605.
- They take as their point of reference the Holy Year of 1300 when Boniface VIII proclaimed the Church's first Jubilee and granted a plenary indulgence to all pilgrims; 200,000 of the faithful came.