Sacred College

British  

noun

1. the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church

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Example Sentences

With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense.

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Last week he did both by announcing that he intends to create 35 new cardinals�the largest number ever named at one time�thereby raising membership in the Sacred College to an alltime record of 136.

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Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes.

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The death of Dell'Acqua, one of the Pope's closest aides, was the second in the Sacred College of Cardinals within a month and the fourth this year, reducing its number to 116.

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But they were egregiously mistaken; for the Cardinal Ursini, when he was advanced to the Pontificate, was resolved to be Pope; and he chose his own Ministers, without consulting the Sacred College.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von