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...first centuries had no opportunity for anything but separation from the state. But with the coming of the Middle Ages the church adopted what Author Stokes calls the "Ecclesiastical Domination plan," which reached its height with Emperor Henry IV's famed barefoot repentance before Pope Gregory VII at Canossa...
...following year, King Philippe de Valois of France presented to one of his lords a cloth purporting to be the same shroud. Two bishops forbade veneration of it, presumably because it was a fraud; and in 1390 Pope Clement VII issued a special bull ordering that it should be treated only as "a painted representation of the original, authentic Holy Shroud, whose whereabouts are unknown." Since 1452 the cloth has been the property of the Italian House of Savoy. On special occasions it was exhibited to the faithful, but in the 19th Century, at least, it seems to have appeared...
...Pope Clement VII and the 14th Century bishops must have had good reason for positively declaring that the shroud was not authentic...
When she became dissatisfied with her first husband, Louis VII, ("I thought to have married a king, but I find I have wed a monk"), Eleanor divorced him. Adding the Plantagenet tag to the Capet one she already possessed, she married Henry II of England, twelve years her junior. Her sons were Richard the Lion-Hearted and John Lackland...
...that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both Edward VII and Edward VIII) found themselves Pragger-Waggers; and in 1890, the Rev. Talbot Rice, Rector of St. Peter le Bailey, became The Tagger Ragger of St. Pagger le Bagger. Meanwhile, an Oxford specialty was adding -er to everything: eccer (exercise), fresher (freshman), roller (roll call) and The Jowler (Greek Scholar...