Cum hora undecima (Latin: Since it is the eleventh hour) is a papal bull issued by Pope Gregory IX in February 1235 and reissued and elaborated repeatedly during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries.[1] It contained basic instructions for missionaries and its opening lines reflected the apocalyptic tradition of the Franciscans:
Since the eleventh hour has come in the day given to mankind...it is necessary that spiritual men [possessing] purity of life and the gift of intelligence should go forth with John [the Baptist] again to all men and all peoples of every tongue and in every kingdom to prophesy because, according to the prophet Isaias, the salvation of the remnant of Israel will not occur until, as St. Paul says, the plenitudo gentium enters first [into the kingdom of heaven].[2]
Missionaries were therefore urged to fulfil Jesus' command to preach the gospel to all men so that the process of salvation would be completed as the Book of Revelation described.[3] They were also ordered to combat heresy and to reconvert non-believers.[3] Gregory granted missionaries special privileges such as the right to hear confession anywhere and the right to absolve those who had been excommunicated.[3]
1 2 3 James Muldoon, Popes, Lawyers, and Infidels: The Church and the Non-Christian World, 1250–1550 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979), pp. 36–37.
↑ James Muldoon, 'The Avignon Papacy and the Frontiers of Christendom: The Evidence of Vatican Register 62', Archivum Historiae Pontificiae Vol. 17 (1979), p. 143.
↑ John Critchley, Marco Polo's Book (Variorum, 1992), p. 11.
↑ Felicitas Schmieder, "Cum hora undecima: The Incorporation of Asia into the Orbis Christianus," in Guyda Armstrong and Ian N. Wood (eds.), Christianizing Peoples and Converting Individuals (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), pp. 259–268.
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