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Mandate of Clement VI, 1348

Papal letter of 1348 that rejected the charge that Jews had caused the plague.

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  1. 1348 Mandate of Clement VI, 1348
  2. 1348 Clement VI signed into law Mandate of Clement VI, 1348
  3. 1348 Mandate of Clement VI, 1348 part of Persecution of Jews during the Black Death
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  1. July 6: Clement VI and the Black Plague, Jewish Currents. Scholarship & press
    It cannot be true that the Jews, by such a heinous crime, are the cause or occasion of the plague, because through many parts of the world the same plague, by the hidden judgment of God, has afflicted and afflicts the Jews themselves and many other races who have never lived alongside them.
    A second Bull would follow on September 26, but the pope’s commands were little obeyed, especially in Germany.
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