Boniface VIII Quotes


There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.


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Boniface VIII, ~1235-1303, [Benedetto Gaetano], Roman Catholic Pope, Quoted in Joseph Lewis, The Ten Commandments

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Boniface VIII
Boniface VIII
  • Born: October 11, 1230
  • Died: October 11, 1303
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Pope Boniface VIII was pope from 24 December 1294 to his death in 1303. Caetani was of baronial origin with family connections to the papacy. He succeeded Pope Celestine V, a Benedictine, who had abdicated from the papal throne. Boniface spent his early career abroad in diplomatic roles. In the College of Cardinals, he discriminated not only against the Benedictines but also members of the Colonna family, some of whom had contested the validity of the 1294 papal conclave that elected him following the unusual abdication of Pope Celestine V. The dispute resulted in battles between troops of Boniface and his adversaries and the deliberate destruction and salting of the town of Palestrina, despite the pope's assurances that the surrendering city would be spared.