Religion-Church History
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- a special year of prayer and pilgrimage in the Catholic Church that takes place every 50 years; also called a holy year
- Jubilee Year
- a formal decree by a pope sealed with a round seal
- Papal Bill
- period during which the pope resided in Avigon, (France), in the Kingdom of Naples
- Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy
- the period from 1378 to 1417 during which two and then three rival people claimed papal authority
- Great Western Schism
- belief that Church councils have greater authority than the pope
- Conciliarism
- during the Renaissance, an emphasis on the human intellectual and artistic activity
- Humanism
- Michaelangeo's statue of Mary holding the crucified Jesus
- La Pieta'
- prohibition against celebrating sacraments in a particular area
- Interdict
- popular name for the bubonic plague, so named because body parts turned black from lack of blood
- Black Death
- the highest expression of Christian prayer- communion with God
- Mysticism
- belief that God can never be known by the intellect
- Negative Theology
- Julian of Norwich's term for her mystical encounters with Christ
- Showing
- a short-lived agreement between leaders of Eastern and Western Christianity on certain doctrines of faith
- Union of Florence
- the process in Spain for identifying and punishing non-Christians on certain doctrines of faith
- Union of Florence
- the process in Spain for identifying and punishing non-Christians and those said to be heritics
- Spanish Inquisition
- Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity, either willingly, or unwillingly, following the Christian takeover of Spain
- Conversas