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  1. Document or edict issued by the pope; so
  2. called from the circular seals (medieval
  3. Latin bulla) attached to them. Some of the
  4. most celebrated bulls include Leo X's
  5. condemnation of Luther in 1520 and Pius IX's
  6. proclamation of papal infallibility in 1870.
  7.