- 'Simony' was Pope
Gregory I (590–604), who
called such
exchanges the "
simoniac heresy".
Although considered a
serious offense against canon law, simony...
- that no
mercy was to be
shown to
simoniacs by
preserving their dignity; that
those who had been
ordained by
simoniacs were to be
retained in
their orders;...
-
include counterfeiters, hypocrites, grafters, seducers,
sorcerers and
simoniacs.
Dante and his guide, Virgil, make
their way into
Malebolge by riding...
- themselves.
Alessio Interminei of
Lucca and Thaïs are seen here.
Bolgia 3 –
Simoniacs:
Dante now
forcefully expresses his
condemnation of
those who committed...
- Anazarbus.
Basilius was at the
synod in
Constantinople in 459 that
condemned simoniacs. In 518,
Paulus was
deposed by the
Byzantine Emperor Justinian for supporting...
- suicides, blasphemers, usurers, sodomites, panderers, seducers, flatterers,
simoniacs,
false prophets, barrators, hypocrites, thieves,
fraudulent advisors,...
-
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Cibo.
Neither had he
engaged in the
extensive simoniac trading that took place. He was made the
administrator of
Fermo in 1485;...
-
renounced the throne,
Sylvester a Crescentian, and
Gregory was a
reformer (
simoniac).
Henry marched to
Verona and Pavia,
where he held
court and dispensed...
- soon
arrive at the
eighth circle of **** in his
Divine Comedy,
among the
simoniacs.
Boniface systematized canon law by
collecting it in a new volume, the...
-
Patarines who
sought to
outlaw clerical marriage and concubinage; he was a
simoniac himself.
Because he also
refused to
abide by the
compromise of 1044, which...
