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Calixtus II

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Or Callistus II

noun

  1. died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.


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In 1122–3 a council was held at Rome, in the church of St. John of Lateran, by Pope Calixtus II.

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

The election of Diego's friend, Calixtus II, to the papacy, gave him his supreme opportunity.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

In 1119 Calixtus II condemned the heresy at its centre in Toulouse.

From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius)

We have rendered our homage to some: for instance, to a Gregory II. in the eighth century; a Leo IV. in the ninth; to Calixtus II.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

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