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Pope Innocent VIII. Summis desiderantes affectibus (Latin for "desiring with supreme ardor"), sometimes abbreviated to Summis desiderantes, [1] [2] was a papal bull regarding witchcraft issued by Pope Innocent VIII on 5 December 1484. [3]
Id Nostri Cordis ("Our Hearty Desires") was a papal bull of Pope Innocent VIII promulgated in Rome on April 27, 1487, which was the 5th Kalends of May 1487 on the Julian Calendar.
The following year, Pope Innocent supported the barons in their failed revolt. During his papacy, Pope Innocent issued a papal bull on witchcraft named Summis desiderantes affectibus. In March 1489, Cem, the captive brother of Bayezid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, came into Innocent's custody. Viewing his brother as a rival, the Sultan ...
This is an incomplete list of papal bulls, ... Apicem was an apostolic letter issued against Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II by Pope Innocent IV (1243–54), during ...
The arrest prompted a series of protests to Pope Innocent VIII over the breaking of sanctuary; these resulted in a Papal bull in August which severely limited the rights of sanctuary, excluding it completely in cases of treason, thereby vindicating the King's actions. [8] Humphrey was executed at Tyburn on 8 July 1486.
Pope Innocent VIII. Universo pene orbi is a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent VIII on 13 November 1487 calling for a crusade against the Ottoman Empire. [1]Innocent claimed that Germany and Italy were under threat from the Ottomans and declared his determination to leave no means untried for the uniting of Christendom against them.
According to it, Pope Innocent VIII acknowledges that sorceresses are real and harmful through their involvement in the acts of Satan. [ 41 ] According to the date on the document, the papal bull had been issued in 1484, two years before the Malleus Maleficarum was finished.
The papal bull Summis desiderantes which Pope Innocent VIII published in 1484 acknowledges the existence of witches and explicitly empowers the inquisition to prosecute witches and sorcerers. The bull aimed to reaffirm the jurisdiction of Kramer, who was denied authority as an inquisitor in Germany.