Pope Boniface VIII, 1295 Papal Letter

 

To our venerable brother, the Bishop of Paris, greetings.

The petition of our beloved son Raynerius Flamingus, a burgher of Paris, which has been shown to us, indicates that he would like to construct a chapel in honor of our Lord Jesus Christ. [He would like to construct this chapel] on that site in the city of Paris in which certain Jews, after piercing the revered Eucharist with a knife, immersed it in boiling water of a pot suspended above a fire. It is known that this water was transformed into blood through a divine miracle. [He would like] to assign to it a proper emolument from his goods, from which the chapel might be might be appropriately sustained in perpetuity, so that the right of patronage over that chapel would be retained for him and his heirs. Whence that burgher humbly beseeched us that we deign to bestow upon him the assistance of apostolic favor, through which it would be possible to fulfill his vow.

Therefore, commending the proposal of this burgher in this regard and obtaining the full support of your wisdom in the Lord, we order your fraternity through apostolic writ with respect to the aforesaid burgher to the construction of that chapel on the aforesaid site, if that site belongs to that burgher or otherwise after he has acquired it legally and reserved it in perpetuity for his heirs and successors.

Given at Anagni, on July 17 of the first year.

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