Catholice fidei defensionem is a papal bull issued by Pope Innocent VIII on 12 July 1486 granting plenary indulgences to those who took part in Casimir IV Jagiellon's war against the Ottoman Empire.[1]
The Church of the Holy Cross, Pătrăuți, opened by Stephen the Great in 1487, contains a painting of a procession of the saints to find and raise the Holy Cross. Recent scholarship has demonstrated a link between this painting and the bull.[2]
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- ^ Liviu Pilat, 'The 1487 crusade: a turning point in the Moldavian-Polish relations', in Liviu Pilat and Bogdan-Petru Maleon (eds.), Medieval and Early Modern Studies for Central and Eastern Europe: II (2010) (Iași: Alexandru Ioa Cruza University Press, 2010), p. 129.
- ^ Sergiu Rosipescu, 'The Romanian concept of crusade in the fifteenth century', in Norman Housley (ed.), The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and Competing Cultures (London: Routledge, 2016), p. 201.