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	Gallicanism - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		GALLICANISM [Gallicanism], in French Roman Catholicism, tradition of resistance to papal authority.
		Two aspects of Gallicanism are sometimes distinguished: royal Gallicanism, which defended the special rights of the French monarch in the French church; and ecclesiastical Gallicanism, which tried to preserve for the French clergy a certain administrative independence from Rome.
		Gallicanism in both senses received its theoretical formulation during the crisis of the Great Schism through the conciliar theory, which asserted the supremacy of general councils over the pope.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gallican.asp (566 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gallicanism
		That Church does not countenance the opinion of those who cast a slur on those decrees, or who lessen their force by saying that their authority is not well established, that they are not approved or that they apply only to the period of the schism.
		The principal force of Gallicanism always was that which it drew from the external circumstances in which it arose and grew up: the difficulties of the Church, torn by schism; the encroachments of the civil authorities; political turmoil; the interested support of the kings of France.
		It was Gallicanism which allowed the Jansenists condemned by popes to elude their sentences on the plea that these had not received the assent of the whole episcopate.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06351a.htm (4942 words)

	Louis XIV of France - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis XIV was also in the process of reinforcing the traditional Gallicanism, a doctrine limiting the authority of the Pope in France.
		Instead of exercising power and potentially creating trouble, the nobles vied for the honour of dining at the king's table or the privilege of carrying a candlestick as the king retired to his bedroom.
		It was once believed that she vigorously promoted the persecution of the Protestants, and that she urged Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes (1598), which granted a degree of religious freedom to the Huguenots (the members of the Protestant Reformed Church).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_XIV_of_France (6788 words)

	Louis XIV of France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Louis was in the process of reinforcing the traditional Gallicanism, a doctrine limiting the authority of the Pope in France.
		It is believed that She vigorously promoted the persecution of the Protestants, and that She urged Louis XIV to revoke the Edict of Nantes (1598), which granted a degree of religious freedom to the Huguenots (the members of the Protestant Reformed Church).
		In October 1685, Louis increased the persecution of the Huguenots by issuing the Edict of Fontainebleau, revoking the Edict of Nantes.
	louis-xiv-of-france.iqnaut.net (4279 words)

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