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    Peter's Pence (or Denarii Sancti Petri and "Alms of St Peter") are donations or payments made directly to the Holy See of the Catholic Church. The practice...
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    21), also known as the Dispensations Act 1533, Peter's Pence Act 1533 or the Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations, is an Act of the Parliament...
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    concerning the English church and the monarch’s authority. Payment of Peter's Pence (a tax collected annually from householders) to the See of Rome was...
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  • language of Nigeria Eastern Obolo, a local government area in Nigeria Peter's Pence Obolo, Akwa Ibom, a town in Nigeria Andoni people, also called Obolo...
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  • Peter's Pence is a 1974 novel by the Australian author Jon Cleary. The novel is about an IRA plot to steal treasure from the Vatican with the help of...
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    Michael Richard Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to...
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    imported the system into Britain to facilitate transactions (notably "Peter's pence") with the Roman Catholic Church (which used the Carolingian coinage...
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    the late 13th century. First recorded mention of it comes from 1344's Peter's Pence, and it was called Henrychów (ecclesia de Henrichov). Other names used...
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  • house and later, a mission All pages with titles beginning with Pence Peter's Pence, a practice in the Roman Catholic Church Penny (disambiguation), including...
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    His appeal for financial support revived global donations known as Peter's Pence. He strengthened the central power of the Holy See and Roman Curia over...
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  • The British decimal fifty pence coin (often shortened to 50p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄2 of one pound. Its...
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    Sieradz and Piotrkow (1435) he spoke in favor of the abolishing of the Peter's Pence in Poland. In 1439 he organized the Korczyn Confederation (also known...
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    the Crown. The Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations outlawed the annual payment by landowners of Peter's Pence to the Pope, and transferred the...
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  • Throughout his political career, Mike Pence has held conservative views. Pence is an opponent of abortion, and his unwavering support of abortion restrictions...
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    in dioceses and direct donations go to a non-budgetary fund known as Peter's Pence, which is used directly by the Pope for charity, disaster relief and...
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  • The Mike Pence 2024 presidential campaign was formally launched on June 5, 2023, when Mike Pence filed paperwork to launch his entry into the 2024 United...
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  • (2455): 859. 28 May 1887. Retrieved 4 September 2017. "Leo XIII and Peter's Pence" (PDF). The New York Times. 1 December 1878. Retrieved 4 September 2017...
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    marriage to Anne was invalid subject to the death penalty. Finally, the Peter's Pence Act was passed, and it reiterated that England had "no superior under...
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  • Ecclesiastical Appointments and Absolute Restraint of Annates, Act Concerning Peter's Pence and Dispensations, Act of Succession 1534, March Clement VII pronounces...
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    annually to Rome, which may be the origin of the medieval tax called Peter's Pence. The pope sent gifts to Alfred, including what was reputed to be a piece...
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    Pope Adrian IV (category Burials at St. Peter's Basilica)
    Sweden–into two distinct national metropolitans, to arrange payment of Peter's Pence and to generally reorganise the church along Italian and European lines...
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    founded, in order to organize the gifts of the faithful for the Pope (Peter's pence); the society still flourishes in the archdiocese. As an author he wrote...
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    penny per hearth as an annual contribution. This church levy, called Peter's Pence, is extant in Ireland as a voluntary donation. In turn, Henry assumed...
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    issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance...
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    settlement Wilamowice. The settlement was first documented in 1325, in the Peter's Pence register as the parish Novovillamowicz (New-Wilamowice) in medieval...
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    from 1325 the local Cistercians secretly resumed collections of the Peter's Pence tax on behalf of Poland for the Catholic Church. From 1320 to 1342 a...
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    keep his temporal power and obtained from the Italians payment of the Peter's pence (5,000,000 lire) remaining in the papal exchequer, as well as 50,000...
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    trade. A local Catholic parish was first mentioned in the register of Peter's Pence payment from 1447 among 50 parishes of Teschen deanery as Scotczowa...
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    with great honours. During a meeting in Linköping, the installation of Peter's pence (papal tax) for Sweden was probably decided. However, the plans of installing...
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    the taxes on ecclesiastical income from the Pope to the Crown. The Peter's Pence Act outlawed the annual payment by landowners of one penny to the Pope...
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