Papal Bull Unigenitus
September 8, 1713
Pope Clement XI, under heavy French pressure, condemned one hundred and one Jansenist propositions drawn from the Bible commentaries of Pasquier Quesnel. Half the French church was scandalized. The long Jansenist controversy, which would shake the Gallican church for a century, had received its sharpest papal definition. Grace, once again, was political.
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Also in 1713 (3 other events on record)
- Treaty of Utrecht · Europe · Politics
- Kangxi's Imperial Encyclopedia · East Asia · Culture
- Pragmatic Sanction Proclaimed · Europe · Politics
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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