* Pope Clement VI ( 1291 – 1352, r. 1342 – 52 )

In 1343 the interval between Holy Years was reduced by Pope Clement VI to fifty years.

In 1343 he had been sent to Pope Clement VI at Avignon to negotiate a grant of a tax on the revenues of the Church for the Crusade.

* 1348 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death.

* 1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus.

In spite of agreeing to crown Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, Clement III angered him by bestowing Sicily on Tancred.

Pope Clement VI ( 1291 – 6 December 1352 ), born

Clement VI issued the Bull Unigenitus on 27 January 1343 to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences.

Clement VI reigned during the period of the Black Death.

Pope Clement VI cameo.

Clement VI died in December 1352, leaving the reputation of " a fine gentleman, a prince munificent to profusion, a patron of the arts and learning, but no saint " ( Gregorovius ; see also Gibbon, chap.

Unlike the Cistercian Benedict XII, Clement VI was devoted to lavish living and the treasury which he inherited made that lifestyle possible.

Gregory VI was succeeded in the papacy by the German bishop of Bamberg, Suidger, who took the name Pope Clement II.

At the time of the proclamation, only 38 years had elapsed since the previous Jubilee, which was celebrated under Clement VI.

A Pope at Avignon, the successor of Clement VI, he was a native of the hamlet of Les Monts, Diocese of Limoges ( today part of the commune of Beyssac, département of Corrèze ), and, after having taught civil law at Toulouse, he became successively Bishop of Noyon and Bishop of Clermont.

On the death of Clement VI, after each cardinal had bound himself to a particular line of policy should he be elected, Aubert was chosen at a papal conclave on 18 December 1352, taking the name of Innocent VI.

Most of the wealth accumulated by John XXII and Benedict XII had been lost during the extravagant pontificate of Clement VI.

* February 15 – Pope Pius VI succeeds Pope Clement XIV as the 250th pope.

* July 6 – A Papal bull is issued by Pope Clement VI, protecting Jews against popular aggression during the Black Death epidemic.

* November 19 – Pope Clement VII succeeds Pope Adrian VI as the 219th pope.

He asked his friend and ally, Pope Clement VI, to do so.

Regardless, on the strength of the donation of Avignon, Queen Joanna I of Sicily, as countess of Provence, sold the city to Clement VI for 80, 000 florins on 9 June 1348 and, though it was later the seat of more than one antipope, Avignon belonged to the Papacy until 1791, when, during the disorder of the French Revolution, it was reincorporated with France.

* Pope Clement VI: 1342 – 1352

To the north and south of the rock of the Doms, partly on the site of the Bishop's Palace, which had been enlarged by John XXII, was built the Palace of the Popes, in the form of an imposing fortress consisting of towers, linked to each other, and named as follows: De la Campane, de Trouillas, de la Glacière, de Saint-Jean, des Saints-Anges ( Benedict XII ), de la Gâche, de la Garde-Robe ( Clement VI ), de Saint-Laurent ( Innocent VI ).

In 1342, Pope Clement VI officially committed the care of the Holy Land to the Franciscans and the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Lands ( The Grand Masters of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre ) held the title ex officio under the Papal bull Gratiam agimus by Pope Clement VI, unless someone was specifically appointed to the honorary office.

After Pope Clement V had officially abolished the order in 1312, the Knights of St. John ( Johanniter ) backed by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg took over the villages of Tempelhof, Mariendorf and Marienfelde and in 1435 sold their estates to the city of Berlin.

In 1342, in his Bull Gratiam agimus, Pope Clement VI officially committed the care of the Holy Land to the Franciscans.

Clement Payne is officially recognized as a " national hero ".

Normal Catholic celebrations were not possible in the United Provinces, therefore Pope Clement VIII decided in 1592 to declare the area above the river Waal as a mission area, as large portions of the area's population had fallen to Protestantism, at least officially, except for some minor staunchly Catholic regions.

The camp was in a scenic location at the end of a dirt road on a lake officially known as Clement Pond, but known to generations of Merrimac campers as Lake Josylvia.

Immediately after his appointment as Cardinal, Pope Clement made him a Cardinal Inquisitor, in which capacity he served as one of the judges at the trial of Giordano Bruno, and concurred in the decision which condemned Bruno to be burned at the stake as a heretic.

The doctrine expressed by the term " Limbo of the Fathers " was taught, for instance, by Clement of Alexandria, who maintained: " It is not right that these should be condemned without trial, and that those alone who lived after the coming ( of Christ ) should have the advantage of the divine righteousness.

Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348 ( 6 July and 26 September ) which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been " seduced by that liar, the Devil.

The 1725 council also decreed the duty of adhering to the Papal Bull Unigenitus ( 1713 ) of Clement XI that condemned the Oratorian, Pasquier Quesnel.

Clement IX ordered his nuncio to conduct a new investigation ' reporting back, the nuncio declared: " they have condemned and caused to be condemned the five propositions with all manner of sincerity, without any exception or restriction whatever, in every sense in which the Church has condemned them ".

The decision was condemned by several French bishops ; by Louis Antoine de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris ; by the theological faculties at Leuven, Douai, and eventually Paris ; and, finally, in 1703, by Pope Clement XI.

Pope Clement XI ( 1649 – 1721 ), whose 1713 bull Unigenitus condemned Quesnel and the Jansenists.

As a symbol of revolt, the pug dog became particularly important after the publication of Pope Clement XII's Papal Bull In Eminenti in 1738 which condemned Catholic involvement in ' Craft ' Freemasonry.

Fénelon particularly condemned Pasquier Quesnel's Réflexions morales sur le Nouveau Testament, and his writings were part of the build-up to Pope Clement XI's 1713 bull Unigenitus, condemning Quesnel's opinions.

Early Christian texts nonetheless condemned abortion without distinction: Luker mentions the Didache, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, and Saint Basil.

( Sant Clement escaped, but on returning to Malta was condemned, strangled and his body put in a sack and dumped into the harbor.

Several bishops forbade it to be read, and Clement XI condemned it in a brief, July 13, 1708, which was, however, not accepted in France, because its wording and its manner of publication were not in harmony with the accepted prerogatives of the Gallican church.

The book, indeed, was at once condemned at Rome ( February 5, 1764 ), and by a brief of May 21 Pope Clement XIII commanded all the bishops of Germany to suppress it.

Whether he was committed to these conclusions is unclear, but on 19 May 1346 they were condemned by Pope Clement VI as heretical and his books publicly burned.