Institution of the Festivity of the Visitation

The Archbishop of Prague, Johann Jenstein , established the feast of the Visitation in his jurisdiction and suggested to Urban VI (Pope from 1378 to 1389) to extend it to the whole Church, in order prevent further divisions.

Bartolomeo Prignano , bishop of the city of Matera, proposed the Feast of the Visitation of the Holy Mary to the Assembly of Cardinals on April 8th, 1389.

The intention was to placate the very disturbed political and ecclesiastical circles (Great Western Schism). However, it was the newly-elected Pope Boniface IX who, on November 8th 1389, published his predecessor's Bull "Superni benignitas conditoris".