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Pope Alexander VI The Papal bull Inter Caetera May 4, 1493. Alexander, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to the illustrious sovereigns, our very dear son in Christ, Ferdinand, king, and our very dear daughter in Christ, Isabella, queen of Castile . . . . We have indeed learned that you, who for a long time had intended to seek out and ...
Alexander VI's bull Inter caetera is an example not only of the role the Catholic Church took in the fight for riches and land but also of the pope's power to disregard human beings as deserving of kindness, respect, and the right to freedom in a quest for necessary Church gain. Inter caetera: Opening up a Whole New World for Europeans
Jul 22, 2022 · The most influential of those decrees was Inter Caetera, a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493. A year earlier , in 1492, explorer Christopher Columbus had arrived in the Americas on an ...
Inter Caetera was high drama indeed. THE HISTORY OF THE BULL The story really begins with an earlier Inter Caetera which had been granted Portugal in 1456 by Alexander VI's uncle. Pope Calixto III. the latest of a series of bulls which gave papal blessing 1. Manuel Giménez Fernández, 'Las Bulas alejandrinas de 1493 referentes a las
James Muldoon*. Pope Alexander VI's bull Inter caetera is one of the few ters generally known to an audience of more than a few or a handful of ecclesiastical historians.1 The picture of one more lurid figures to occupy the See of Peter calmly dividing tire non-western world between the Portuguese and the never fails to elicit a smile.
The bulls issued by Pope Alexander VI: Eximiae devotionis (3 May 1493), Inter caetera (4 May 1493) and Dudum siquidem (23 September 1493), granted rights to Spain with respect to the newly discovered lands in the Americas similar to those Pope Nicholas V had previously conferred on Portugal with the bulls Romanus Pontifex and Dum Diversas.
This item 10591 digitally provided courtesy of CatholicCulture.org. Inter Caetera This papal bull was issued by Pope Alexander VI on 4 May 1493, which granted to Spain (the Crowns of Castile and ...
