When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre ( so called mitra simplex ).

When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni returned, and took a prominent part in the management of the affairs of the republic.

When a papal inquisition arrived at a town it had a set of procedures and rules to identify likely heretics.

When Petrus Hispanus was elected pope in 1276 and chose the papal name John, he decided to correct this error by skipping the number XX.

When the attempt of papal forces to take over the ancient independent Republic of San Marino failed, Clement XII disavowed the arbitrary action of his legate, Cardinal Alberoni, in seizing San Marino, and restored its independence.

When Archbishop of Canterbury William Warham died in 1532, the Boleyn family chaplain, Thomas Cranmer, was appointed, with papal approval.

When the French Revolution broke out, the population of Avignon and of the Comtat Venaissin turned out the papal officials and declared themselves French citizens.

When the Holy Office drew the Réflexions morales to the attention of Clement XI, he issued the papal brief Universi dominici ( 1708 ), proscribing the book for " savouring of the Jansenist heresy.

When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said " it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns ," Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld.

When Innocent III's diplomatic attempts to roll back Catharism met with little success and after the murder of the papal legate, Pierre de Castelnau, Innocent III declared a crusade against Languedoc, offering the lands of the Cathar " heretics " to any French nobleman willing to take up arms.

When Gaunt and Swynford married in 1396 ( some 25 years after the birth of their first child ), the church rewarded them by legitimising their offspring through a papal bull.

When the papal diplomat William of Modena visited present Sweden around 1248, he urged the Swedish kings to fulfill the rules of the Catholic Church, an exhortation which Birger seems to have taken as a chance to strengthen his position by simply taking the side of the church against other members of his family ( alternatively possible to interpret as a manifestation of his pious side ).

When Charles of Bourbon died, he went to Rome in the suite of Charles V. For some time he held a position in the papal court at Rome, but about 1534 he returned to France, and became an advocate.

When, in his 1996 Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, he revised the rules on the election of Popes, he removed all mention of a papal coronation, replacing it with a reference to an " inauguration ": " After the solemn ceremony of the inauguration of the pontificate and within an appropriate time, the pope will take possession of the Patriachal Archbasilica of the Lateran, in accordance with the prescribed ritual.

When, in 1870, the question of papal infallibility was raised, Reinkens attached himself to the party opposed to the proclamation of the dogma.

When the papal ships took shelter in the harbour of Zadar, the inhabitants greeted the Pope by singing lauds and canticles in Croatian.

When the officers returned to Suite 603 at 2: 30 am on January 7, they found: street maps of Manila with routes plotting the papal motorcade, a rosary, a photograph of the pontiff, bibles, crucifixes, papal confessions, and priest clothing, including robes and collars.

When Pope John Paul I became Pope in 1978 he was informed of allegations of wrongdoing at the Institute for Works of Religion, and instructed Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal Secretary of State and head of the papal Curia, to investigate the matter thoroughly.

When the Virgin Mary ( traditionally considered the heavenly queen of Hungary ) was depicted as having sex with the papal Swiss Guard in an episode of Hungarikum, the Vatican demanded state interference as required by the Concordatum treaty.

When the prioress of the abbey is presented with the papal bull, she tells Lorenzo that his sister died several days before.

When Pope John Paul II died on 2 April 2005, Sodano, who participated in the 2005 papal conclave, was not generally seen as one of the papabili, the cardinals likely to become the next pope.

When papal authority was great, the King could do little but admit a lack of jurisdiction over the prelates.

When Charles IV laid down procedure for electing a King of the Romans, he didn't mention anything about receiving papal confirmation of the election.

When the Argentine envoy, Nicolás de Herrera, arrived in May 1813, he learned to his dismay that all decisions had to await the meeting of a Paraguayan congress in late September.

When no Chinese envoy had arrived by 1: 00 p. m. on December 10, General Matsui Iwane issued the command to take Nanking by force.

When the ephors send out an admiral or a general, they make two round pieces of wood exactly alike in length and thickness, so that each corresponds to the other in its dimensions, and keep one themselves, while they give the other to their envoy.

When Michael of Chernigov, who had murdered the Mongol envoy in Kiev earlier, arrived the Mongol overseers were engaged in taking a census of the inhabitants for the poll tax.

When Liu Bei was still at Changban, Sun Quan's envoy Lu Su hinted to him that he should ally with Sun against Cao Cao.

When Gian Gastone died in 1737, Francis Stephen's envoy offered Anna Maria Luisa the position of nominal regent of Tuscany, but she declined.

When his envoy entered the castle grounds, they destroyed not only the outer moat but the inner moat as well.

When Béla arrived in Hungary, Lukas, Archbishop of Esztergom refused to crown him because he had given a present to the archbishop's envoy, and the archbishop considered the gift as an attempt at simony.

:" When the Han envoy first visited the kingdom of Anxi, the king of Anxi ( the Arsacid ruler ) dispatched a party of 20, 000 horsemen to meet them on the eastern border of the kingdom ...

When King George I ascended to the throne in August 1714, Dalrymple was sent as an envoy to the Court of France at Versailles.

When Heungseon Daewongun was ousted from politics, Japan renewed efforts to establish ties with Korea, but the Imperial envoy arriving at Dongnae in 1873 was turned away.

When the Emperor of Japan's envoy was invited, the Tokugawa Shogunate presented the Castella.

When Governor-General George Eden ( Lord Auckland ) heard about the arrival of a supposed Russian envoy in Kabul and the possibility that Dost Mohammad might turn to Russia for support, his " politically insane " advisers exaggerated the threat.

When he reached Lahore, he sent his envoy to Prithviraj Chauhan to demand his surrender and convert from Hinduism to islam.

When they finally admitted that the leaders had been arrested ( on 5 May ), the American envoy of Harry S. Truman, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, was told by Joseph Stalin that “ there is no point in linking the case of the Trial of the Sixteen with the support for the Soviet-backed government of Poland because the sentences will not be high .” Both British and American governments shared this view.

When the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian described Dayuan around 128 BCE, he mentioned, besides the flourishing urban civilization, warriors " shooting arrows on horseback ", a probable description of Saka nomad warriors.

When a Roman envoy is sent to Linoleum to inform Ceramix that Getafix has been disposed of, he asks a resident where the chief is and is told that he is inspecting Professor Berlix's school for modern languages, a play on Maximilian Berlitz and his International Language Schools.

When the League heard both arguments on October 26 – 28, Polish envoy Szymon Askenazy claimed that there was no conflict between Poland and Lithuania to mediate.

When the Polish envoy replied that he had no intention of signing such a document, he was informed that the general assault was ordered on September 21 and that the city would most surely be taken.

When Ono first appeared in the historical record and was appointed envoy to Sui, his rank was listed as Greater Propriety ( 5th rank ), but he was later promoted to the top rank of Greater Virtue, largely due to his successful missions to the Sui court.

When Afzal Khan sent his envoy Krishnaji Bhaskar to Shivaji, Shivaji solemnly appealed to him as a Hindu priest to tell him if Afzal Khan was making any treacherous plans.

When the Chinese envoy Chiang Kien was in Gandhara ( circa c 127 BCE ), he found to his great surprise that bamboos and textiles from south-western China were sold in the local markets.

When Imoko was first sent as an envoy to the Sui court in 607, he was ranked Greater Propriety ( 5th rank ), but he was eventually promoted to the top rank of Greater Virtue because of his achievements, particularly during his second trip to Sui in 608.

When he was obliged to leave the Electorate of the Palatinate, Philip IV of Spain made him his envoy to the court of Emperor Ferdinand III.