The commission established by Pope Pius V had not succeeded, because of the insufficient resources at its disposal, in achieving the aim attributed to it in Pope Pius V's bull Quo Primum, namely to restore the liturgy to " the original form and rite of the holy Fathers ".

For Pasiphaë, as Greek mythologers interpreted it, Daedalus also built a wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull, Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he took an opportunity.

The figure in the seal has been interpreted both as a bird and as a bull.

It is often interpreted as a depiction of a ritual performed in connection with bull worship.

In order to address this market, Highland beef producers commonly run commercial Highland suckler cows with a ' terminal ' sire such as a Shorthorn or Limousin bull.

In response to Michael's refusal to address the issues at hand, the legatine mission took the extreme measure of entering the church of the Hagia Sophia during the Divine Liturgy and placing a bull of excommunication on the altar.

With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477, in which he referred to the feast as that of the Conception of Mary, without using the word " Immaculate ", he granted indulgences to those who would participate in the specially composed Mass or Office on the feast itself or during its octave, and he used the word " immaculate " of Mary, but applied instead the adjective " miraculous " to her conception.

The bull of definition of the dogma, Ineffabilis Deus, mentioned in particular the patrististic interpretation of as referring to a woman, Mary, who would be eternally at enmity with the evil serpent and completely triumphing over him.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

It was begun in 1174 by William II, and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral.

Initially, he supported the marriage of Mary I of England and Prince Philip of Spain by recognizing Henry VIII's creation of the kingdom of Ireland and the couple's claim to France in his bull " Ilius ".

These include a papal bull and the memoirs of Mary Eleanor Bowes.

Following the accession of the Catholic Mary I in 1553 and her marriage to Philip, Prince of Asturias in 1554, Pope Paul IV issued the papal bull " Ilius " in 1555, recognizing them as Queen and King of Ireland together with her heirs and successors.

The word regicide seems to have come into popular use among foreign Catholics when Pope Sixtus V renewed the solemn bull of excommunication against the " crowned regicide " Queen Elizabeth I, for executing Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1587 among other things.

This bull can be seen as an act of retaliation for the religious settlement, but as it was delayed by eleven years it was most likely instigated by pressure from Philip II of Spain, the Duke of Norfolk or Mary, Queen of Scots, all of whom had a vested interest in overthrowing Elizabeth.

In 1588 Pope Sixtus V, in support of the Spanish Armada, renewed the solemn bull of excommunication against Queen Elizabeth I, for the regicide of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587 as well as the previously catalogued offences against the Catholic Church.

He secured in 1528 a bull from Pope Clement VII assuring the legitimacy of his marriage with Mary Tudor and of the daughters of Anne Browne, one of whom, Anne, was sent to the court of Margaret of Savoy.

The town is first mentioned in historical records in 1158, in a bull of pope Adrian IV, with which the abbey of Monte Sacro obtained privileges on the church of St. Peter e St. Mary near the " castellum capralis ", a location identifiable as the municipality, as subsequently confirmed from historical documents.

They included the 1521 bull of excommunication of Martin Luther and a letter from Mary, Queen of Scots, written while awaiting her execution.

Having obtained a papal bull, he founded it by deed of 12 June 1458, converting the hospital into a college with a president and six fellows, to which college two days later Magdalen Hall surrendered itself and its possessions, its members being incorporated into the New College of St Mary Magdalen.

The carving in the window is a nativity scene, the female is Mary with the newborn child at her breast ; the item at her feet is the head of a bull, and the figure at her shoulder is an angel.

In 1154 – 1156, Westminster Abbey obtained a Papal bull from Pope Adrian IV which confirms a strong dependency of the priory of St Mary, Malvern, on the Abbey of Westminster.

On 12 February 1571, the king was informed by the Spanish ambassador that news was had in London from France that the pope had ceded to the Spanish crown the kingdom created for Philip and Queen Mary I of England, which had fallen vacant upon the excommunication of Elizabeth by the bull Regnans in Excelsis, and that it was rumoured that Stukley was to be sent to England with 14 to 15 companies of troops.

It was established in 1476 by a bull of Pope Sixtus IV and is known for devotion to Virgin Mary, under her title as Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

In 1484, in the Late Middle Ages, at a time when the papacy was starting to become highly politicised and corrupted, Pope Innocent VIII, who had a number of illegitimate children, issued, more for political reasons than anything, Summis desiderantes affectibus, a Papal bull authorizing the " correcting, imprisoning, punishing and chastising " of devil-worshippers who have " slain infants ", among other crimes.

Musth or must () is a periodic condition in bull elephants, characterized by highly aggressive behavior, accompanied by a large rise in reproductive hormones – testosterone levels in an elephant in musth can be as much as 60 times greater than in the same elephant at other times.

Céret also holds an annual bull running festival known as la feria where young bulls ( usually with their horns blunted ) are run through the streets corralled by a group of highly skilled Camargue horsemen and women.

Although an atheist, Philippe favoured Jansenism which, despite papal condemnation, was accepted by the French bishops, and he revoked Louis XIV's compliance with the bull Unigenitus.

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

Seizin' the bull by the tail, he rushed his hoss forward and a little to one side, throwin' the bull off balance, and `` bustin' '' 'im with terrific force.

In 2007, the first case of bluetongue in the Czech Republic was detected in one bull near Cheb at the Czech-German border.

* 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.

You sell one and buy a bull.

It was under these conditions that Pope Gregory XI, who in January, 1377, had gone from Avignon to Rome, sent on 22 May five copies of his bull against Wycliffe, dispatching one to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the others to the Bishop of London, King Edward III, the Chancellor, and the university ; among the enclosures were 18 theses of his, which were denounced as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State.

His preoccupation with the relationship of the image to the containing edge of the picture led him to a series of studies of concentric rings, or bull ’ s-eyes, or as they were known-Targets-like the one reproduced here called Beginning from 1958, using unlikely color combinations.

He thought Poseidon would not care if he kept the white bull and sacrificed one of his own.

For an elevation offering, one must sacrifice a young bull, a ram and seven lambs who are a year old.

Usually a territorial bull and a challenging bachelor will stop fighting when it is clear that one hippo is stronger.

The modern herds are managed as two separate lines – one consisting of only Bison bonasus bonasus ( all descended from only seven animals ) and one consisting of all 12 ancestors including the one Bison bonasus caucasicus bull.

In the 4th century, the dining room was equipped with a fine mosaic floor with one illustration of Zeus, disguised as a bull, abducting Europa and a second depicting Bellerophon killing the Chimera.

Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark, and the great white shark, have two to three layers or more, depending on body size.

On Shemini Atzeret, the offering included one ram, seven lambs and a single bull.

On 23 July 1431, his legate Giuliano Cesarini opened the council, which had been convoked by Martin V, but, distrustful of its purposes and emboldened by the small attendance, the pope issued a bull on 18 December 1431 that dissolved the council and called a new one to meet in eighteen months at Bologna.

Legends say he carried his own bronze statue to its place at Olympia, and once carried a four-year-old bull on his shoulders before slaughtering, roasting, and devouring it in one day.

In one version of the myth, Semele was a priestess of Zeus, and on one occasion was observed by Zeus as she slaughtered a bull at his altar and afterwards swam in the river Asopus to cleanse herself of the blood.

Another bull, Dudum siquidem, entitled Extension of the Apostolic Grant and Donation of the Indies and dated, gave all mainlands and islands, " at one time or even yet belonged to India " to Spain, even if east of the line.

A papal bull dated to circa 1155 mentions Lubin as one of 13 Silesian castellanies.

Within most herds, there is one bull ( male ) for all the cows ( female ).