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Which pope banned the flagellant movement during the Black Death?
Pope Clement VI banned the flagellant Brethren of the Cross in the bull *Inter sollicitudines* on 20 October 1349. The movement had become a parallel religious authority — preaching publicly, distributing forgiveness without clerical mediation, and increasingly anti-clerical and anti-Jewish in its public performances. Within six months of the bull the movement had been suppressed across most of Europe.
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The Men Who Whipped Themselves Across Europe In the summer of 1349 thousands of penitents marched through plague-stricken Europe flogging themselves twice a day. The Pope banned them within months.
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