Pope Leo X

Pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521) · Religious Figures · Died at 45

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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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1521Died1 December 15211520“Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Remember your reproaches to those who are filled with foolishness all through the day.”In their words15 June 1520Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text onlineRead the whole statement

“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.”In their words15 June 1520Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text onlineRead the whole statement

“Some, putting aside her true interpretation of Sacred Scripture, are blinded in mind by the father of lies.”In their words15 June 1520Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text onlineRead the whole statement

1517“Made thirty, we should make thirty-one”In their words1 July 1517Statement (1 July 1517), when he created 30 new cardinals. Another priest, who seemed to him also worthy, was nominated during the ceremony.Read the whole statement

1475Born11 December 1475

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Raffaello, ritratto di papa leone X tra i cardinali luigi de' rossi e giulio de' medici, 1518, 03

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Lapide Leonis X (San Giovanni Valdarno)

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Papa leone x, bulla contra errores martini lutheri & sequacium, roma, giacomo mazzocchi (bncf pal. misc. 4.E.1.13)

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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.
Jun 15, 1520, Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online, Own words
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.
Jun 15, 1520, Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online, Own words
Some, putting aside her true interpretation of Sacred Scripture, are blinded in mind by the father of lies.
Jun 15, 1520, Papal bull issued 15 June 1520, condemning The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther - Full text online, Own words

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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, condemning Luther and sealing the break that became the Protestant Reformation. He spent lavishly and borrowed without restraint, patronizing Raphael's Vatican frescoes, commissioning Vida's Latin epic Christiad, and reorganizing the Roman University to advance humanist learning. He died in December 1521 and lies in Santa Maria sopra Minerva - the last man to reach the papacy without prior ordination.

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