The Donation of Constantine is an 8th-century forged document that allegedly granted spiritual supremacy and temporal dominion to St. Sylvester I, who reigned as pope from 314 to 335, and all his successors. The Donation was purported to have been granted by Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, after the pope baptized him a Christian and miraculously cured the emperor’s leprosy.
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