Lets see if the math adds up. He also became the first Pope to appoint inquisitors to actively root out such heretics. During these witch trials, a woman even testified in court that cats spoke to her, and threatened to hurt her if she didnt abuse children in the town. Without them, pests would run wild, and not just rats. Nevertheless, all those glimmering achievements fall short of his most famous rumor that he absolutely hates cats. The black plague ravaged countless European cities around a century after the demise of Pope Gregory IX. Reigning during the Western Schism, he was opposed by the Avignon claimant Benedict XIII and the Pisan claimants Alexander V and John XXIII.Gregory XII wanted to unify the Church and . Was considering writing a song about the folly of feline flaying, now Im not so sure. Forgive us! says the master, and the one next to him repeats this, a third responding, We know, master! A fourth says And we must obey. 4, So whats up with this? This dudes job was to rid Germany of heretics, so he had plenty of reason to stoke the Popes fears of heretical activity (gotta keep that job). And neither of these areas were parts of the Holy Roman Empire and thus subject to anything Pope Gregory IX might have said (but didnt) about a no-cats policy. No one can say for sure how many cats were killed because of the association made between them and witchcraft by the Vox in Rama. Kitty cats are not everyones flavor of pudding, but they serve an important role in many urban areas, especially in the developing nations outside the western world. This sudden lack of cats led to an increase in rat infestation which in turn increased the spread of disease, the most devastating being the Bubonic Plague. Writing is my first love. It was also a time when, people many believe, Pope Gregory IX hated on cats. Like, if I were to think of evil depictions on display in a museum, this would be one of them. That, or he was a true believer, or both. Eventually, the ItalianRenaissance would put this so far in the rearview, all we could think about wasfrilly collars. The people of the time may have felt that this was the end of days, but the wake of the plague was nothing but an opportunity for survivors. cats were only interested in our rat infested granaries. Once the initial hysteria died down, cats, like the would-be witches were left alone for a time, giving them time to repopulate- and remained prolific enough to continue to be culled. Conrad had initially been involved in the persecution of the Cathars and enjoyed significant successes during the Albigensian crusade of 1209 -1229. But it starts to fall apart once you roll it around in the ol brainpan. Did Pope Gregory's comfort with the law cause him to overstep his station as the pope? We may not be that much superior to that time frame, but we have learned a thing or two since then, I hope. Public Domain. There are holes in your arguments as well. This is mainly because the black plague ravaged Asia before it goes on its way to Europe. While I dont have any cats my allergist says owning a cat for me is worse for my lungs than chain smoking Ive long revered cats. Gregory believed him. Its funny thinking about cats as the symbol of evil. CATS ARE BETTER THAN PEOPLE & ALWAYS WILL BE BETTER THAN HUMANS. Henry was acquitted when he appealed to the bishop of Mainz and later that year Marburg himself was mysteriously murdered- probably at Henrys behest. (Accessed 2018, June 1). Honestly, I feel like even thinking that the cathunt resulted or directly influence the black plague is a bit of a stretch. ABORTION SHOULD BE THE ANSWER IN ALL COUNTRIES, ALONG SIDE LAWS THAT WOULD PREVENT THE POPULATION GROWTH FROM EXPANDING . I like cats, but I dont wear leopard skin or go around posting pictures of cats everywhere. As people began to get sick and the Black Plague began spreading, more and more cats were killed. Gregory immediately recognizing Conrad as a useful tool in his war against religious dissent. 2022 History of Yesterday | All Rights Reserved. People living during this time lived in constant fear of death. Black Death. Cats were later blamed for the Black Death (13461352), though rats were actually the culprit. Of course, the Bubonic Plague also motivated the kitty killings, as many believed that cat germs contributed to the plagues spread. Cat burning and other forms of cat hating have survived the centuries since. When I was a kid, my mom thought that Id have my own talk show because I was always asking people lots of questions about themselves. But the association between cats and gender is not a new one. I dont know what to make of the authors contention that we like to hate on the middle ages. It was one of the most deadly pandemics in history. Heretical beliefs were on the rise at the time, . Pope Gregory IX How did this come about? (As a side note, the festival continues in modern Belgium but nowKattenstoethonors felines with a parade that features cute effigies of cats, but I digress. Gregory was a reluctant pontiff- and not just because of his age. Interestingly enough, the author of the article writes that one reason cats are evil is that they are the favored pets of witches. Actually, witches both modern ones and the one who were burned at the stake during Middle Ages owned cats because being close to nature is central to theirreligious beliefs. Homeless Cats Recruited to Fight Rising Tide of Rats, Erika Engelhaupt National Geographical, September 29, 2017. Thank you for your cooperation.You can sign-up to the Membership any time to remove the adds and enjoy the content with no interruptions, 2 popes and a plague are to blame for burning felines at the stake. While ancient Egyptians would have rathersurrenderto invading army than harm a hand on a cat, the belief by others that cats cannot be trained to be loyal and obedient like a dog, was a source ofanxietyover cats during medieval times. The final point though is that contemporary accounts and the examination of modern doctors and historians of the evidence from them has shown bacteria that caused the Black Death can take the form of a lung infection called pneumonic plague, which was spread easily between humans. Pope Innocent VIII came to power in the late 1400s, during the throes of witch crusades in Western Europe. Pope Benedict XVI acknowledges pilgrims during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Nov. 4, 2009. Because the powers that be dictated that the cat composed one of the main identifiers of a witch, the Church officially excommunicated the entire species. His condemnation of cats may not be responsible for the spread of black death, but its definitely connected to the decline in cat populations at the time, andthe proliferation of rat populations. The Decretals reorganized the whole library of Catholic laws. This bull, the story goes, declared cats as the instruments of Satan, and set Medieval Europe on a great cat purge, with special attention paid to black cats, who were particularly Luciferian. Welcome to BELIEVE.art, home of Revolutionary Artist & Warrior-Poet, Chairman Meow. Plague. Fleas tend to prefer cat blood. Cats breed quickly, know how to survive on their own, and are hard to catch. Since the ninth century AD, the Canon Episcopi of the Catholic Church had deemed belief in witchcraft to be a heresy in itself. The fleas will jump on to the cat and then you can dose the cat to kill them. if(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[300,600],'historyofyesterday_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_4',119,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-historyofyesterday_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0');Im definitely tracking the cat worship concept. Pope Gregory IX did issue a papal bull, . In this case, with no cats around, disease-carrying rats multiplied like crazy, spreading the Plague. While there appears to be no evidence that Pope Gregory IX ever told people to kill cats, there have been smaller historical examples of Medieval folks killing cats for weird reasons. Furthermore, several more black plagues would hit the world in the 18th century or so, and it's unlikely that the cat population still suffers the cathunt after hundred of years. The mass murder of cats was not the only cause of the Black Plague, but it removed a crucial natural predator of the flea-carrying rats that spread the disease. One example is the idea that Catholic fear drove people, including Pope Gregory, to wipe out cats, which resulted in a population explosion among plague-infected rodents, thus leading to the Black Death. I have no idea where you get the idea that cats place is in the wild. Pope Gregory IV (Latin: Gregorius IV; died 25 January 844) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from October 827 to his death. Finally, even if cat numbers were vastly reduced, they were not wiped out. Good luck keeping them down for half a millennium.6, Maybe the biggest hole in the cat theory comes from the history of the plague. We may still see the effects of the mass cat slaughter today: Its been suggested that the small black cat population in Europe today is a direct result of that breed being deemed particularly devil-like. Gregorys response was to issue the Vox in Rama. Where do we get our stuff? But how did cats become to be seen as evil? So as you say, cats couldnt have contained bubonic plague. Many believed this was the end of the human race, and who could blame them? Others posit that the smaller geoglyphs were used as location markers for travelers. Indeed the belief that the torture or killing of cats could break spells continued across northern Europe. The same evil popes who say God created all creatures of the earth, yet they, wantonly murdered these defenseless creatures of the earth that God created. But in the final analysis cats just arent dogs. After years of consultation and research, Pope Gregory XIII signed a papal bull in February 1582 promulgating the reformed calendar that came to be known as the Gregorian calendar. His condemnation of cats may not be responsible for the spread of black death, but it's definitely connected to the decline in cat populations at the time, and the proliferation of rat populations. Statues of black cats dont come to life, and you sure as sh*t cant get a cat to walk backwards and let you kiss its butthole.5. The most you can say about cats from this papal bull is that they are perhaps among the icons worshipped by a Satanic cult. Gregory based his theory on evidence from Conrad of Marburg, a papal inquisitor. The Black Death came in 1347. Ugolino di Conti was born around 11451170 in Anagni, Rome. The Church had already accused the Waldenses of worshipping the devil in the form of a cat. First, consider the dates: Pope Gregory IXs papal bull was issued between 1232 and 1234. Costs of living dropped. The Bull arose in response to rumors of satanic cults in Germany by the areas grand inquisitor, Conrad of Marburg. Classical Cats: The Rise and fall of the Sacred Cat, Donald W Engels, Psychology Press. Thats serious.. (Accessed June 1, 2018). As a strategic communicator, I juggle many balls but Im a writer first. While there appears to be no evidence that Pope Gregory IX ever told people to kill cats, there have been smaller historical examples of Medieval folks killing cats for weird reasons. You cant even accept that cats may have offered some protection from the plague. Nature tries to maintain a balance .. dogs, cats, chickens, and snakes all relate well to preying upon rats and fleas. There is little real evidence for this. As I understand it, people used small dogs for rat hunting. Wierd Tales, Vol 36. Yet, in 2014 Pope Francis sparked an uproar by telling a girl whos cat who had died that she would be reunited Gods creatures in Paradise except for cats, who end up in hell. We know they had terrier like dogs in Medieval Europe and that they were used as ratters. Zealousness is a common occurrence in medieval times, the same thing goes for Gregory IX. Such heresies could not be left unchecked to spread around the population and thus undermine the Churchs authority. For he had inherited the problem of heresies which were blossoming across thirteenth century Christian Europe and challenging the 'universal' church. Some people are sick. For one, rate outnumber cats by a huge margin, like everywhere, and always have. This description created an image that was to be used for all future depictions of witches sabbats- and one that established the cat as a creature of the devil. What effects did it have? The mass killing of those docile beautiful creatures is despicable. The bull called upon the bishops of Mainz and Hildesheim to lend Conrad their full support in rooting out these witches. But feline-human relations deteriorated sometime in the early 1230s (CE) when Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull called Vox in Rama. Apparently torture produced some pretty convincing confessions from people who worshipped the devil and his black cat. They were hunted into extinction ! It was his distaste for cats that penned the Vox in Rama. The bull does not, however, dictate that Catholics across Europe kill all cats to stop Satan. According toSmithsonian Magazine, the Nazca geoglyphs may have been used for astrological, calendrical purposes as well as religious rituals to encourage rainfall and fertility. A bit hard to read when YOU ARE SCREAMING AT ME though! There were probably several strains of plague spreading through Europe. One small fact you havent taken account of here. Actually, the murder of cats in Europe continued for hundreds of years, and another Plague swept through Europe again in the 17th Century. (Accessed June 1, 2018). Ive written before about whycats are strange including the reasons cats like to walk all over you, knead you and are afraid of cucumbers. But feline-human relations deteriorated sometime in the early 1230s (CE) when Pope Gregory IX issued a papal bull called Vox in Rama. I soon realized thatpublic affairs combined the best of both worlds of journalism and television talk shows I get to learn interesting and unusual things about people who worked with me, I then get to tell their story. If the Nazca thought enough of cats to etch a 37-meter geoglyph of one into the mountain that persists 2,000 years later, they must have thought highly of them. This bull, the story goes, declared cats as the instruments of Satan, and set Medieval Europe on a great cat purge, with special attention paid to black cats, who were particularly Luciferian. I laughed to I almost passed out One thing though some of the Pussy Persecution may have derived from the Witch connection. (Ive decided not the repost the link here). Pope Benedict died Dec. 31, 2022, at the age of 95 in his residence at the . Where do we get our stuff? Granted, Im sure it was easier to get into back then, but thats right in the Medieval period. That is the well-accepted history, but is it really true? A witch and her cat. (dogma defined as the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology, or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from). For Conrad in his quest for heretics around Mainz and Hildesheim claimed to have uncovered a Luciferian cult. The Pope also gave Conrad carte blanche to deal with all heretics as he saw fit- including permission to disregard usual church rules. April 1st was originally celebrated as the New Year day, until in 1582 Pope . The mass murder of cats was not the only cause of the Black Plague, but it removed a crucial natural predator of the flea-carrying rats that spread the disease. Retrieved from https://www.petmd.com/cat/conditions/infectious-parasitic/c_ct_plague%20, Quora. Other sects, such as the Cathars or Albigensians had more esoteric beliefs. Cats just arent dogs, and I respect and love them specifically for that reason. I am in France since 3 years and I would see the amount of cats I saw here during that time, maybe in a day or two in Turkey. And each time it hit Europe again, it appears to have come from Asia. Pope Innocent VIII came to power in the late 1400s, during the throes of witch crusades in Western Europe. But cats? Some believed that the disappearance of those cats helped rats spread the bubonic plague aka the Black Death that killed millions of people in the 1300s. Id rather see them in the wild doing what cats are meant to do than as someones indoor pet. CATS ARE BETTER THAN PEOPLE. Not only were they a source of companionship they were also a status symbol and source of worship., Egyptians have had a long love affair with cats. Pope Gregory IX, who held the papacy from 1227 to 1241, most definitely fell in the second camp largely because he believed that the fluffy hairball-hackers embodied Lucifer himself. The truth is that cats could not have prevented the black death. This seems to add up for the modern reader. At length, when the novice has come forward, [he] is met by a man of wondrous pallor who has black eyes and is so emaciated [and] thin that since his flesh has been wasted, seems to have remaining only skin drawn over bone. In my home, I use cat statuettes as bookends, and have various other representations of these felines throughout my home. Used as widespread clickbait, a frequently repeated story claims that in the 13th century Pope Gregory IX, who led the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241 and has been remembered for initiating the Papal Inquisition against heretics, suffered from a serious case of cat contempt. Its true that paper cutouts of these furry creatures make nice imagery at Halloween parties. One such individual was a German priest and nobleman, Conrad of Marburg. WHY DONT U WRITE A SONG ABOUT THE PLAGUE THAT RAVAGED THE POPULATION OF HUMANS INSTEAD, BECAUSE THEY GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO THEM ALL. Cats are awesome rodent hunters. While in power, Pope Gregory IX declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated. Cat burning became a favorite medieval pastime in France, where cats were suspended over fires in cages or doused and set alight- even chased on fire through the streets by cat chasers. You know, small-town sh*t.9. In fact, the picture of a white Persian cat in Bond villain Ernst Blofelds lap is an indelible cultural image, as is that of the hairless cat that Dr. It was Gregorys past as an astute lawyer that connected him to his acts of justice within the church. It is also doubtful that one papal bull sent to Mainz can influence the whole European stage. Thanks for writing this! This cruel practice continued until 1817 although the Kattenstoet continues to this day- involving stuffed cats instead. Wikimedia Commons. Meanwhile, they need that meat on the regular and know how to get it, so theyre great at killing and eating vermin. It came from was Asia, but it is still believed by many to have traveled on the backs of fleas living on rats. The most likely targets were often older cat-owning peasant women (The Crazy Cat Ladies of their time) who were labeled witches and often burned alive at the stake. In the ensuing years huge numbers of cats (especially black cats) and even their owners were killed across Europe in fear that they were evil witches and linked to Satan. https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/plague/factsheet.asp. THE HUMAN POPULATION NEEDS TO BE CUT BACK BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL NATURE. Not only that he founded the papal inquisition to prosecute heresy, but he also issues a papal bull a legal decree issued by a pope, designated as Vox in Rama that calls for crusades condemning the spread of heretics that follows Luciferianism in Mainz, Germany. He informed the Pope of his findings. Once the initial hysteria died down, cats, like the would-be witches were left alone for a time, giving them time to repopulate- and remained prolific enough to continue to be culled. He was born Ugolino di Conti but took the name Gregory when he becamethe pope. In a papal bull of 1233 he denounced the black cat as diabolical. But the cars we have for pets are not naturally in the wild for thousands of years. Finally, even if cat numbers were vastly reduced, they were not wiped out. But today, the association between cats and Halloween persist, perhaps ironically because spurious associations between cats and Satan worshiping that the Catholic Church pushed, some 800 years ago. When I graduated college,I began living my own dream as a reporter for a news media outlet. Where once these creatures had been common household animals, they were now regarded as dangerous, unpredictable and demonic. With Halloween is around the corner, Chairman Meow is reminded of a time hundreds of years ago when similar institutional dogma helped fuel the outbreak of The Black Plague across Europe, leading to the (ignorant) mass killing of cats in the 14th century. He is mostly known for issuing the Decretales and starting the Papal Inquisition. Nazca, a culture that lived in what is now Peru, etched a 37-meter-long geoglyph of a cat in the coast plain some 2,000 years ago. However, amongst the warped fantasies were some bare facts from past beliefs which lent themselves to the dark image of witchcraft the church was attempting to conjure. The cat had obtained a darker connotation through its association with Galinthias, who became a servant of Hecate, a Greek goddess of the underworld after she was turned into a cat by the goddess Hera. We know there was a massive reduction in cat populations at the time because of this, so its plausible to make the connection. Check out France, rats on the street, brave-pigeons without flight reflex, but no cats. As one might have predicted, thereafter, mass slaughters of cats blanked Europe. A LION; I will wager $500 we can debate this and I will win with 100 literate judges NOT taught as toddlers the pope or priest can send them TO HELL. After food, clothing and medicine, the fourth item is cosmetics and the fifth is pets, he said, referring to a study on where most peoples income goes. (Accessed June 1, 2018). Then each [returns] to his place and, speaking certain responses, they incline their heads toward to cat. Not a cat person? As mentioned, this Pope initiated what has been described as the feline Holocaust 3 in Europe. There are two things we need to shed light on; whether Gregory IX endorse the newly-coined cathunt and whether the cathunt directly correlates with the black plague that happens 100 years after. Though Ive learned important lessons from each of my trips, my trip to Chile the string bean-shaped country was my favorite. While there appears to be no evidence that Pope Gregory IX ever told people to kill cats, there have been smaller historical examples of Medieval folks killing cats for weird reasons. Answer: This looks like a job for History for Atheists! Retrieved from https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/ravens-memory-unfair-trade/. Some historians have forgiven the rats. The Bubonic plague was carried not by rats themselves but their fleas; fleas which could just as easily transfer to dogs- and cats. Cats, dogs, horses, humans. If anything, the cathunt is Konrads interpretation of the papal bull. It also saw the breakup of the Carolingian Empire in 843. That was the first church document condemning black cats as instruments of satan. Vermin did a number on harvests, but cats were natures perfect solution: they literally cant eat anything that isnt meat, which means that they pose no risk to the crops. Sweet Home Alabama Lyrics: What Does Muscle Shoals Has Got the Swampers Mean? Cats were seen as agents of the devil, throughout much of history, and slaughtered again centuries later in New England during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Retrieved from https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/06/in-the-middle-ages-devil-fearing-christians-killed-cats-which-carried-the-unintended-consequence-of-increasing-the-rat-population-and-the-spread-of-the-black-death/, Horrox, Rosemary. And anyone who tries to understand them as the devil incarnate or as a female marker hasnt spent enough time enjoying a cat walking all over them, kneading them or running from cucumbers. But still, cultural images of cats being a marker of femininity didnt sprout fromVogue,any more than the idea that cats are plain evil stem fromSports Illustrated. These were, however, local affairs and dont serve as proof of the kind of massive cat recall modern folks have inferred from Pope Gregory IXs bull. On a personal level, my parents taught me the value of travel when I was young, and since then,Ive been an avid traveler I have visited 20 countries. Lastly, a bit of science about the plague: the disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and is initially transmitted by fleas, which pass it to their hosts. Allegedly, people confess to Konrad that Luciferianism initiates goes through an initiation process that includes giant toad, pale man, and licking the bum of a backward walking-living statue of a black cat. My mum always said the best way to get rid of a flea infestation was to let a cat walk through your house. Enter the ancestors of Garfield the Cat. In 1233, Pope Gregory IX's "Vox in Rama," a warning against the perils of witchcraft, accused its targets of canoodling with a black cat that was actually Lucifer in disguise. You can say that Im addicted to it. On January 23, 1229, he sent messages to Riga, Lubeck, Sweden, to Gotland with an appeal to begin . Keep in mind that Chairman Meow iz not targeting religion, ceiling cat forbid ,but shedding light on human nature to digest and follow institutional dogma. Its a little school in England that was established in the year 1096. On June 13, 1233, Gregory issued the Vox in Rama, an official papal decree declaring that Satan was half-cat and sometimes took the form of a cat during Satanic masses. By rough estimates, as many as 200 million people died. Chairman Meow Says: Iz so awful that such a time occurred in our history. Unfortunately, modern DNA testing allowed us to dig into the causes of death from aging corpses. The truth of the plague variations that wiped out Europe is, they were the results of a perfect storm. It's like visiting the museum with a close friend who just happens to know all the best stories, secrets and gossip. So theres a lot of weak info out there about the backwards things that Medieval people were wont to do. To understand why suspicions of cats persist, you need to go back to the 13th Century, whenPope Gregory IXhad a definite opinion of cats and it wasnt a positive one. A witch and her cat. Its disgusting the way people treat and exploit these great animals. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Museum Hack leads small group, VIP museum tours that are fun, fast-paced and surprisingly cool. As hysteria increased, the rat population boomed and the Black Plague began to spread out of control. The popes were all hypocrytical, bastards. Even in Egypt, where they still view cats as sacred animals, plague hits. What he did caused the persecution of domestic and stray cats for 500 years. For example, 79 medieval cats were mysteriously slain in Cambridge, England, by the townsfolk in the 13th century. Not only did the Egyptians hold the cat sacred in the form of Bast, a warrior goddess associated with fertility and the moon, but so too did the Romans, for whom the cat was one of the symbols of the goddess of freedom, Liberta. On October 11, 1231, he appointed Conrad as the first grand inquisitor of Germany. Want more crazy cat facts? Guess what? Konrad has evidence of people worshipping Lucifer and black cats, he also seems to possess some sort of confession. The Vox in Rama encouraged Conrad of Marburg to overreach himself and that same year he accused Henry II, Count of Sayn of taking part in satanic orgies. The population of Europe drops from 80 million to around 30 million by the time the black death subsides, some cities even saw a decrease of more than 70% of their population, few, such as a village called Quob, lost their entire population. While the fact is pretty obscure on whether the papal bull is directly influenced by Konrad, he is known as a zeal that is set on to burn every last heretic. And whatever else fleas like to nosh on.8. you suck; F-; see edict ex cathadre by a subsequent POPE reversing greggy 9s cat condemnation- also, Y-Perstis fleas only and I mean ONLY like rats; why? The following rites of this [sect] are carried out: When any novice is to be received among them and enters the sect of the damned for the first time, the shape of a certain frog [or toad] appears to him. A quick Google search shows that a felinefemme fatalecat mask is conveniently available on Amazon for only $25.22. Then, when the rats came bearing the Plague, there were no mousers left to keep the disease in check.3. Gregory lived from 1145 to 1241, AD. Which means that killing off the rats main predators was probably not the best idea. Literally no cats. Pope Gregory XII (Latin: Gregorius XII; Italian: Gregorio XII; c. 1327 - 18 October 1417), born Angelo Corraro, Corario, or Correr, was head of the Catholic Church from 30 November 1406 to 4 July 1415. But myths often transcend evidence, dont they? Henry was acquitted when he appealed to the bishop of Mainz and later that year Marburg himself was mysteriously murdered- probably at Henrys behest. (Accessed May 31, 2018). 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