Benedict XII
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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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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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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 1339 we happen to hear of Giovanni di Borgo removed by the Franciscan general and replaced by Benedict XII.
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