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Boniface VIII, né Benedict Gaetano (ca. 1235 - October 11, 1303) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. Boniface's given name was either Benedict Cajetan or Benedetto Gaetano. He was elected in 1294 after Celestine V was persuaded to resign. In 1300 Boniface instituted the jubilees, which afterwards became a source of both profit and scandal to the church.

Boniface VIII put forward some of the strongest claims to temporal as well as spiritual supremacy of any Pope and meddled incessantly in foreign affairs. In his Bull of 1302, Unam Sanctam Boniface VIII proclaimed that it "is necessary for salvation that every living creature be under submission to the Roman pontiff", pushing Papal Supremacy to its historical extreme. These views and his intervention in 'temporal' affairs led to many bitter quarrels with the emperor Albert I of Habsburg, the powerful family of the Colonnas and with Philip the Fair of France.

Boniface VIII's quarrel with Philip the Fair became so resentful that he excommunicated him in 1303. However, before the Pope could lay France under an interdict, Boniface VIII was seized at AnagniAnagni is an ancient town in Latium, Italy, in the hills east-southeast of Rome, famous for its connections with the papacy and for the picturesque monuments of its unspoiled historical center. Recent discoveries indicate that the town was populated by Et by a party of horsemen under Guillaume de NogaretGuillaume de Nogaret ( 1260- 70 1313) was councillor and keeper of the seal to Philip IV of France. His father was a citizen of Toulouse, and was, so it was claimed, condemned as a heretic during the Albigensian crusade. The family held a small ancestral, an agent of Philip and Sciarra ColonnaMember of the powerful Colonna family , strong enemy of pope Boniface VIII. During the Outrage of Anagni, in September 1303, Sciarra reportedly slapped him in the face.. Although he was released from capitivity after three days, he died of shock a month later, on October 11, 1303. No subsequent popes were to repeat Boniface VIII's claims.

DanteDante Alighieri (May/June 1265 September 13/14, 1321) was a Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia The Divine Comedy , is a culminating statement of the medieval world view and the basis of the modern Italian language. Life Early life and portrayed Boniface VIII, though alive at the date of his vision, as destined for the Inferno in his Divine Comedy.

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Saint Celestine V

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