. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . I #.. TAUROMACHIA, THE FIGHTING BULL OF SPAIN. 57 The power of the papac}- was ahke invoked in vain. In1567 a papal bull issued by Pius V. prohibited all Catholicprinces, under pain of excommunication, from permittingcorridaH in their dominions; a similar punishment for allpriests who attended them, and Christian burial was deniedto all who fell in the arena. Not even these terrible measuresavailed, and succeeding Pontiffs were fain to relax theseverity of the hid as of their predecessors, since eachs
. Wild Spain ... records of sport with rifle, rod, and gun, natural history and exploration . I #.. TAUROMACHIA, THE FIGHTING BULL OF SPAIN. 57 The power of the papac}- was ahke invoked in vain. In1567 a papal bull issued by Pius V. prohibited all Catholicprinces, under pain of excommunication, from permittingcorridaH in their dominions; a similar punishment for allpriests who attended them, and Christian burial was deniedto all who fell in the arena. Not even these terrible measuresavailed, and succeeding Pontiffs were fain to relax theseverity of the hid as of their predecessors, since eachsuccessive prohibition was met by the magnates of theland arranging new conidas. At length the time arrivedwhen masters of theology at Salamanca ruled that clericsof a certain rank might licitly attend these spectacles. Isabels grandson, Charles I., killed with his own handa bull in the cit} of Yalladolid, during the festivities heldto celebrate the birth of his eldest son, afterwards Philip II.;and, later, during the reigns of the House of Austria, toface a bull with bravery and skill, and to u
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