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Pope Leo X
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Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day.
— Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online
Pope Leo X
Pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
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- Religious Figures rank#35
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Lived 1475–1521, aged 46
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The pope who bankrolled Raphael, burned Luther's writings, and spent the church into crisis — all while never having been ordained a priest before his election.
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Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici was born into Florence's ruling banking dynasty on 11 December 1475, second son of Lorenzo de' Medici, and became a cardinal at fourteen in 1489. Elected pope in March 1513 after winning support from younger cardinals following Julius II's death, he closed the Fifth Council of the Lateran but failed to enact its reforms, then drained papal coffers waging war in 1517 to install his nephew as Duke of Urbino. His sale of indulgences to fund the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica triggered Martin Luther's 95 Theses; Leo responded in 1520 with the bull Exsurge Domine,…
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Pope Leo X
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Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood.
— Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online
Pope Leo X
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Some, putting aside her true interpretation of Sacred Scripture, are blinded in mind by the father of lies.
— Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online
Pope Leo X
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Made thirty, we should make thirty-one
— Statement (1 July 1517), when he created 30 new cardinals. Another priest, who seemed to him also worthy, was nominated during the ceremony.
Pope Leo X
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Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it.
— Statement to his brother, Giuliano, as quoted in The Claims of Christianity (1894) by William Samuel Lilly, p. 191
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