Examples of using Simony in English and their translations into French
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Gelduinus(1032-1049) was deposed for simony by Pope Leo IX at the Council of Reims.
Simony, bribery, and if you will both forgive my mention of such indelicacies fair ladies, public lechery.
In 1094 he went to Rome to ask for forgiveness from Pope Urban for this act of simony.
At the same time he sought to check the simony in the practices of the Apostolic Chamber
The tenth canon forbids simony and buying the episcopate by money.
This last provision probably signifies that simony was becoming less common already.
This monument was erected in honour of the Dachstein explorer Dr Friedrich Simony.
It also condemned simony and priestly concubinage.
Simony, usury, public lechery,
Those guilty of simony were exiled for two years, but could retain their sees.
laid down punishments for simony.
he excommunicated several bishops accused of simony.
expulsion of the Bishop of Castello, accused of simony.
In 601 Gregory advised Virgilius to assemble a council against simony and to induce the Bishop of Marseilles to reform his house.
being accused of simony he was recalled to Rome.
When the pope pledges to banish all suspicion of simony from the cardinalate, he keeps his word.
The council tried to curb simony by making bishops swear an oath that they had neither paid
This is the first documented case of papal simony, wherein both candidates attempted to bribe the royal councilors,
At this period, simony(the purchase or sale of church offices
If it can be proven, what many of us suspect-- corruption, simony, the blatant sale of the sacred offices,