Boniface VIII proclaims the first Jubilee
February 1300
Rome filled with pilgrims shuffling between the apostles' tombs, promised plenary indulgence by a pope already picking fights with kings. Boniface imagined the Jubilee as a showpiece of papal supremacy, and an estimated two hundred thousand faithful poured through the city gates that year. Within three years he would be slapped at Anagni and the papacy uprooted to Avignon.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.