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While Pope Gregory IX was in power, he declared that cats were to be associated with devil worship and had them exterminated in droves.
It’s believed that the disappearance of those cats helped rats spread the bubonic plague, or Black Death, that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 1300s.
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