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| | Biography Pope Gregory IX The Papal Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | On the 29th of September, 1227, the pope, attired in his pontifical robes, pronounced, in the cathedral of Anagni, that the emperor was cut off from the Catholic communion. |
 | | Before entering the last-named city, he halted at Saint Damian, where he visited Saint Clare, and advised her, in order to avoid various inconveniences, to have some property, and he offered her an abundant supply. |
 | | It remained thus during the following reigns; but Sixtus IV, at the request of Saint James de la Marca, when at Assisi in 1476, had a wall built before the stairway which led to the subterranean church where the saint was, and thus deprived the people of the sight of the body of Saint Francis. |
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