Calixtus III

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Or Callistus III

noun

1. Alfonso de BorjaAlfonso Borgia, 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.

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Calixtus III

He said it to the meek, blue-eyed Pope Calixtus III, also a Borgia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nicholas V had restored the bridge over the Tiber, and also begun a tower nearby, which Calixtus III completed.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

The Pope of that period, Calixtus III, though a man of more than ordinary ability, was saturated with the ideas of his time.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

Pope Calixtus III invested its grand prior with the spiritual powers conferred on a bishop.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

Alfonso Borgia, one of the most active opponents of the Council of Basle and of the Reformation in Germany, was elected pope in 1455, assuming the name Calixtus III.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand