In mid-1349, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull denouncing the flagellants as a heretical movement. |
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As much as a pound of coagulated blood was noted to have been shed by individual flagellants during these paschal ceremonies. |
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German flagellants became an organized sect and were a target of the Inquisition. |
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Although we may tend to laugh at the flagellants and read them off as lunatics, they did help medieval men and women cope with the ravages of the plague. |
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England did not experience the same trend of roving bands of flagellants, common on the continent. |
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Two of these are chapels of pénitents noirs, lay groups of 14th-century flagellants who marched hooded and barefoot through the streets and whose membership included kings of France. |
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When plague ravaged Italy in 1259, Raniero Fasani, also known as the Hermit of Umbria, organized processions of self-scourging flagellants who practiced the ritual. |
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In the mid-14th century, flagellants fearful of the Black Death sought by their own efforts to mitigate the divine judgment that they felt to be at hand. |
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