RRR:
2575
YEAR:
1247
text:
May 11. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the archbishops and bishops who receive this letter, relating that, although the Church needs financial support for urgent business, they shall not exact anything for this reason from the Temple and the Hospital of Jerusalem or their persons, because they depend on aid from their houses and churches in the West (cismarinis) because of the miserable plight has befallen them [in the East] (propter miserabilem casum qui eis accidit). The addressees shall protect the friars in their cities and dioceses from harassment, revoking as void anything done against them on this pretext.
Sources:
Innocent IV, Les registres, 1:401, no. 2692
