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Jun 15, 2022 · Learn about when Pope Gregory IX, head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1227 to 1241, declared war on cats.
Aug 16, 2023 · Pope Gregory IX believed that cats were evil. Felines were either in league with the devil or the devil himself in a fur coat. The pope had Europe's cats exterminated. There were unexpected consequences for humans: The bubonic plague, superstitions about cats being unlucky and witch hunts.
Apr 16, 2021 · On 13th June 1233, Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull called Vox in Rama that linked cats to satanism and witchcraft. Throughout most of the medieval period, cats had a horrendous time and...
Nov 5, 2019 · Vox in Rama. When supporters of the story that people in the Middle Ages killed cats en masse look for documentary evidence to support their narrative, they usually cite one particular document: a decretal letter issued by Pope Gregory IX (in office 1227 – 1241) titled Vox in Rama.
Nov 8, 2023 · The idea originated with a 13th-century pope who accused devil-worshippers of kissing cats' hindquarters.
Feb 25, 2020 · But feline-human relations deteriorated sometime in the early 1230s (CE) when Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull called Vox in Rama. This bull, the story goes, declared cats as the instruments of Satan, and set Medieval Europe on a great cat purge, with special attention paid to black cats, who were particularly Luciferian.
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On March 19, 1227, 80-year-old cardinal Ugolino di Segni became Pope Gregory IX. Gregory was a reluctant pontiff- and not just because of his age. For he had inherited the problem of heresies which were blossoming across thirteenth century Christian Europe and challenging the ‘universal’ church.
