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Pope Lucius III

Pope Lucius III

?–1185 CE · Pisa

Born Ubaldo Allucingoli at Lucca, Lucius III was an experienced cardinal when elected in 1181. Persistent hostility from the Roman commune kept him largely absent from the city, residing chiefly at Velletri and Verona. At Verona in 1184 he met Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and issued the decretal Ad abolendam, a landmark in the church's developing response to heresy that organized episcopal inquiry against the Cathars, Waldensians, and others, foreshadowing the later inquisition. He and Frederick also discussed a new crusade and disputed control of contested lands. Lucius died at Verona in 1185 with several major questions, including imperial relations, still unsettled.

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PisaפיזהItaly

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About Pisa

Pisa, a city in Tuscany, north-central Italy, had a Jewish community in the medieval and early-modern periods. The kabbalist and halachist Rabbi Yosef Ergas (1685-1730), author of the kabbalistic introduction Shomer Emunim and a leading opponent of Sabbateanism, taught at a yeshiva in Pisa, though he spent most of his career as rabbi in nearby Livorno.

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