It seemed to be something about a routine papal letter.

He received a papal letter on 18 July in the year of his accession.

Yet, such papal letters can sometimes be used for wider statements, Catholic officials said.

The papal letter called on all Christians to accept her as a "common mother" and a source of unity.

Among them were a papal letter written in 1202 and a 14th-century French book of hours, a prayer book.

Papal letters are generally named by modern scholars, according to their incipit, or beginning.

A papal letter of protection of 1291 named 34 localities.

Some members of the church snubbed the papal letter, and it remained unenforced.

Nevertheless, forged papal letters appeared even earlier than this.

The first mention of a bishop in Finland is from a papal letter in 1209.