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In 1252, Pope Innocent IV issued a papal bull entitled "Ad Extirpanda," which explicitly authorized the use of torture by inquisitors to extract confessions from suspected heretics (Peters, 1985).
Pope Innocent IV solemnly consecrated the church on 25th May 1253. On May 24, 2022, on the Solemnity of the Dedication, Friar Giovanni Voltan, Assistant General for the FIMP (Belgium, France, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey), said in his homily:
As early as 1251 the pope (Innocent IV) issued his mandate making provision in favour of Giles, a scholar, son of Lanfranc Rossi, of Genoa, of a benefice of the prior and convent of Eye, worth thirty or forty marks.
On this point, Libellus is consistent with the conclusions reached long before by Pope Innocent IV (1243–1254), who defended the property rights and self-government of non-Christian societies.
Pope Innocent IV., in February, 1254, issued a mandate to Berard de Nimpha, a papal agent, living in England, to imprison for life and deprive of their benefices certain forgers of papal letters, and to cite to Rome (with six others) the prior of Southwick, who is mentioned in the letters suspected to be false, that he may, if possible, prove ...
Pope Innocent IV, in 1245, empowered the prior to give the less heinous offenders, if penitent, absolution and dispensation, and to suspend the recalcitrant for two years. Those guilty of violence were to be sent to him for absolution.
The prior of Tooting (Theuteng) was appointed by Pope Innocent IV., in 1251, conservator of certain pensions from certain churches granted to the abbot and convent of Westminster. The taxation roll of 1291 returns the abbot of Bec as holding an income of £4 out of the church of Streatham as part of the alien priory of Streatham.
