How to use Pius VI in a sentence
The trouble was, he alienated Pope Pius VI and Pius VII—the latter he actually arrested.
Only scanty relics of antiquity have been found here; a post station was placed here by Pius VI.
Pius VI had died a prisoner on French soil, and had been buried without honor.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan SloaneAmong those who were commissioned to examine it, was a simple prelate, who afterwards became Pius VI.
The Jesuits, 1534-1921 | Thomas J. CampbellPius VI., in fact, did not wish Consalvi to wear out his energies in the routine of administrative bureaucracy.
The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 | E. Rameur
Subsequently he plundered the states and possessions of the pope; and when Pius VI.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
British Dictionary definitions for Pius VI
original name Giovanni Angelico Braschi . 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1775–99). He opposed French attempts to limit papal authority and denounced (1791) the French Revolution: he died a prisoner of the French in the Revolutionary Wars
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