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    The Donation of Constantine (Latin: Donatio Constantini) is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly...
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    place in all of Christendom. The papal claim to temporal power in the High Middle Ages was based on the fabricated Donation of Constantine. He has historically...
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    The Donation of Constantine or Donation of Rome is a painting by assistants of the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was most likely painted by Gianfrancesco...
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    (1523-1534), who ordered the completion of the Raphael Rooms. The final painting in the sequence, The Donation of Constantine, records an event that supposedly...
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    community of Christians—relocated key Roman families and translated many Christian relics to the new churches. The Donation of Constantine, an 8th-century...
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    analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery, therefore attacking and undermining the presumption of temporal power claimed by the...
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  • Vicarius Filii Dei (category History of the papacy)
    (Latin: Vicar or Representative of the Son of God) is a phrase first used in the forged medieval Donation of Constantine to refer to Saint Peter, who is...
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    Corsica.[citation needed] Donation of Constantine, a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred...
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    Pope Sylvester I (category Year of birth unknown)
    Sylvester I and Constantine in a 1247 fresco Relics of Saint Sylvester in the Abbey of Saint Sylvester in Nonantola The Donation of Constantine is a document...
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    the Donation of Constantine was a forgery. Pius was the first Pope to use guns, in campaign against the rebel barons Savelli in the neighbourhood of Rome...
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    Constantinian shift (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    Roman Empire Divine right of kings Donation of Constantine Erastianism Great Apostasy Historicism (Christianity) Persecution of pagans in the late Roman...
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    the forged Donation of Constantine, citing a large portion in a letter to Michael, believing it genuine. July 16 – East-West Schism: Humbert of Silva Candida...
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    with Pope Stephen II, who presented the king of the Franks a copy of the forged "Donation of Constantine" at Paris and in a magnificent ceremony at Saint-Denis...
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    The Donation of Sutri was an agreement reached at Sutri by Liutprand, King of the Lombards and Pope Gregory II in 728. At Sutri, the two reached an agreement...
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  • Lorenzo Valla, in 1440, who determined, independently, that the Donation of Constantine, which had been used for centuries to legitimize papal temporal...
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    Ultramontanism (category History of the Catholic Church)
    the Catholic view of a universal primacy with actual universal jurisdiction. Catholicism portal Caesaropapism Donation of Constantine Erastianism Integralism...
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    Solomonic column (category Orders of columns)
    Peter's Basilica for reuse in the high altar and presbytery; The Donation of Constantine, a painting from Raphael's workshop, shows these columns in their...
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    Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325. This ecumenical...
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    date of the writing; – second indication of forgery. Examples are: The exposure by Lorenzo Valla in 1440 of the so-called Donation of Constantine, a decree...
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    the general provisions of the Donation of Constantine. The ban on lay investiture in Dictatus papae did not shake the loyalty of William's bishops and...
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  • Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, an anti-Semitic forgery Donation of Constantine Epistolary novel False documentation Fictional book Fictitious...
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    acquired and held by the bishops of Rome, as landlords, from the time of Constantine onward. This donation came about as part of a process whereby the popes...
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  • Gregorian Reform (category History of the papacy)
    Reforms Concordat of Worms Diploma Ottonianum Donation of Constantine Donation of Pepin First Council of the Lateran Liber Gomorrhianus Pope Gelasius I...
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  • law of the Catholic Church, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the removal of a...
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  • against the practise of making a donation following a baptism.: 60  Following the Edict of Milan (313), the increased power and wealth of the church hierarchy...
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  • necessarily broad in character and limited in number. As early as the time of Constantine I, especial insistence was put upon the obligation to hear Mass on Sundays...
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  • Imperium (category Philosophy of law)
    publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Donation of Constantine". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company....
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    Constantinianism (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    distinction. Christian right Constantine the Great and Christianity Constantinian shift Christendom Donation of Constantine History of Christian thought on persecution...
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    Consanguinity (from Latin consanguinitas 'blood relationship') is the characteristic of having a kinship with a relative who is descended from a common ancestor....
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    bequests to the Roman Church would become the basis of the forged Donation of Constantine centuries later. The third section narrates a dispute between Sylvester...
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