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• n  a formal proclamation issued by the pope (usually written in antiquated characters and sealed with a leaden bulla)

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• Today in history: Sept. 27
  1540: Pope Paul III issued a papal bull establishing the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a religious order. 1939: Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. 1962: "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson's groundbreaking as well as controversial study on the effects of pesticides on the environment, was published in ...
  Sept. 12, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News
• Today in History: March 22
  1312: Pope Clement V issued a papal bull ordering the dissolution of the Order of the Knights Templar. 1638: Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying Puritan orthodoxy. 1765: The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.)
  Sept. 12, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News