Benedict XII

noun

1. Jacques Fournier, died 1342, French ecclesiastic: pope 1334–42.

Example Sentences

Frà Simone Filippo, the inquisitor, complained to Benedict XII., who at once pronounced them null and void, and ordered them erased from the statute-book.

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Benedict XII. was as earnest as his predecessor.

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We hear nothing of papal inquisitors after those commissioned by Benedict XII. in 1335, and it is presumable that for a while the heretics had peace.

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In 1335 Benedict XII. accordingly appointed the Franciscan Peter Naczeracz as inquisitor in the diocese of Olmütz and the Dominican Gall of Neuburg for that of Prague.

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An enumeration of the Dominican Order made in 1337, at the request of Benedict XII., showed about twelve thousand members.

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