Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on foot during the insurrection, August and September 1875Evans, Arthur, Sir
History
Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on foot during the insurrection, August and September 1875
Evans, Arthur, Sir
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Description and travel; Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- Rebellion of 1875
Gregory IX. congratulates Coloman on ‘wiping out the heresy and restoring
the light of Catholic purity,’[60] but the Pope was quick in discovering
that these congratulations were premature. The Tartar invasion which
in 1241 weakened Hungary was the strength of the Bogomiles of Bosnia.
Nor, perhaps, did the slaughter of Ban Zibisclav and many of his bravest
adherents by the horde of Khan Ugadai much affect the subjects whose
creed and interests he had deserted. In 1246 Pope Innocent IV.[61] had
to stir up a third Bosnian crusade, the conduct of which was entrusted
to the Archbishop of Colocz—‘a man skilled,’ as was fitting in an
archbishop, ‘in all the science of war.’ He received a cross from the
Pope to fix upon his heart, and aided by the King Bela, of Hungary,
renewed the pious work. Many heretics were butchered, others were
cast into dungeons; and so great were considered the deserts of the
archbishop, that the Pope transferred the church of Bosnia from Spalato
to Colocz. But once more it was discovered that fire and sword had raged
in vain. Heresy continued to be so rampant in Bosnia that from 1256 the
episcopate of Bosnia, which had been renewed after the first crusade,
lapses a second time.[62] The papacy next resorted to persuasion, the
more so as during the last part of the thirteenth century the Hungarian
suzerainty was becoming less and less binding on Bosnia. About the year
1260 the Minorite brothers of the order of St. Francis of Assisi were
sent into Bosnia to aid the Dominicans, who had been already established
here.[63] At the end of the thirteenth century Bosnia passed for a while
under the overlordship of the Prince of Serbia, and Stephen Dragutine,
who was favourable to the Roman church, allowed two Franciscan brothers
to establish the Inquisition here in 1291.[64]
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