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Benedict XIV

noun

Pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758). Synonym: Prospero Lambertini.

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... chairman, with a pitying smile at this young man's presumption. "What do you think of Benedict XIV., Suarez, and ...

— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... ecclesiastics and on the church by decrees, in the same manner as those emperors enacted laws by edicts. The decrees, bulls of canonization, sentences, charters, and other legislative and judicial acts of the pontiffs, from Gregory VII., in 1073, to Benedict XIV., in 1757, collected in the Bullarium Magnum, fill nineteen folios. Many others are contained in the ...

— A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse • Sylvester Bliss

... du Chatelet and Cirey ruled supreme over the poet's life. There began a course of metaphysics, tales, tragedies; Alzire, Merope, Mahomet, were composed at Cirey and played with ever increasing success. Pope Benedict XIV. had accepted the dedication of Mahomet, which Voltaire had addressed to him in order to cover the freedoms of his piece. Every now and then, terrified in consequence of some bit of anti-religious rashness, he took ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume VI. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

Words linked to "Benedict XIV" : Holy Father, Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Prospero Lambertini