I HAVE proved comprehensively during this series that all of Scotland’s cities had ancient fortifications, early religious institutions and ...

The rise and fall of Cola di Rienzi (christened Nicolas di Lorenzo by his parents but brought up at Anagni, about sixty-five kilometres from Rome - past home also of Pope Boniface VIII, whose ...

It was not until 1298—24 years after Gregory X promulgated the Ubi periculum—that Pope Boniface VIII incorporated it into canon law, establishing it as the standard process for papal elections. Thus, ...

Celestine’s successor, Pope Boniface VIII, did not like the idea of an ex-pope even if the retired pope wanted to live in solitude. Boniface imprisoned Celestine, who died 10 months later.

Two armed officers in plain clothes, led by one ASP John Agbaji, stormed the Pipeline area of Akute, Ogun State, on Saturday, April 26, 2025, and arrested a 22-year-old student, Jeffrey Boniface ...

Pope Boniface VIII — Celestine was executed less than a year later. Pope Benedict XVI lived another nine years before dying of lung disease in 2022. "Everything is in here," he told the newly ...

“It was not him saying, ‘Go there,’ but saying, ‘Come with me,’” Albert LeGatt of the Archdiocese of St. Boniface said of the way the pope, who died Monday, put his words into action.

With just a 13-day reign, Pope Urban VII had the shortest serving time in office before passing away on September 27, 1590. In 1896, Pope Boniface VI ... Pope Urban VIII served 20 years, 11 ...

Francis died of a stroke and irreversible cardiovascular arrest, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli said in the death certificate, which was released by the Vatican. It added that the pope had fallen ...

Philip IV’s ‘chief minister’, Guillaume de Nogaret, was particularly active on the king’s behalf in his bitter quarrel with Pope Boniface VIII over clerical taxation. This culminated in Boniface’s ...

Since 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII issued the first Jubilee Bull, millions of pilgrims have journeyed to Rome. Their outward pilgrimage symbolised an inner desire for renewal, seeking to align ...

Pope Boniface VIII called the first Holy Year in 1300, and in recent times they are generally celebrated every 25 to 50 years. Pilgrims who participate can obtain “indulgences” — the related ...