will no-one rid us of this meddlesome priest???
“Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause…Listen to our prayers, for foxes have arisen seeking to destroy the vineyard whose winepress you alone have trod...The wild boar from the forest seeks to destroy it and every wild beast feeds upon it.”
- Exsurge Domine, Pope Leo X, June 15, 1520
https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/martin-luther/intro
Leo X was one of the two Medici popes and had a pretty colorful family history of his own.Talk about foxes in the vineyard.