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Celestine I

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[sel-uh-stahyn, si-les-tin, -tahyn] / ˈsɛl əˌstaɪn, sɪˈlɛs tɪn, -taɪn /

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 432, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 422–432.


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Six years later he escaped Ireland, eventually reached Rome whence he was sent back by Pope St. Celestine I to begin his celebrated conversions.

From Time Magazine Archive

That he had the assent of Germanus we may fairly suppose; that he had the consent and authorisation of Pope Celestine I am quite ready to believe.

From The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 by Browne, G. F. (George Forrest)

"There!" exclaimed Celestine, "I told him there was nothing new in his scheme."

From Bureaucracy by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

O mother Celestine, I pray God prosper thee.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

"Come, come, Celestine, I said in jest a really serious thing."

From Bureaucracy by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

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