1570 – The Excommunication of Elizabeth I

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The Lady Elizabeth in about 1546, by an unknown artist
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On 25th February 1570, Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.

Here is the text of the Regnans in Excelsis, the papal bull, which was then published and copied in the months following:
“The Damnation and Excommunication of Elizabeth Queen of England and her Adherents, with an Addition of other punishments 
Pius Bishop, Servant to God’s Servants, for a perpetual memorial of the matter.
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