Medieval missionary apostasy occurred and was formally absolved

Evidence

It even happened that the missionaries themselves apostatised, as did a Franciscan and two Dominicans absolved by John XXII in 1334. William of Adam of Sultaniyah was, like Ricoldo, much preoccupied with the fate of prisoners, both women, and boys carried into Egypt and sold as catamites. This last scandal was the product of trade rather than of war. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 743

Categorization

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