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Jubilee

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  • Beginning the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy
    Year of Jubilee
    / History

    …Year resembles the Old Testament Jubilee—in which every 50 years the Hebrews celebrated a year of perfect rest, emancipated those they had enslaved, and restored hereditary property—but it does not seem to be based on it. Pope Boniface VIII established the Holy Year in 1300 as a centenary observance. In…

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    …Year resembles the Old Testament Jubilee—in which every 50 years the Hebrews celebrated a year of perfect rest, emancipated those they had enslaved, and restored hereditary property—but it does not seem to be based on it. Pope Boniface VIII established the Holy Year in 1300 as a centenary observance. In…

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