Celestine III

American  

noun

1. Giacinto Bobone, died 1198, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1191–98.

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Example Sentences

Celestine III was raised to the papacy at 85.

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe the town was destroyed by Pope Celestine III.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry

Celestine III died less than four months after the Emperor Henry VI, and the centre of interest immediately shifted from the Empire to the Papacy.

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)

Pope Celestine III enrolled him among the saints in 1193.

From Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Hutton, Edward

But a pope more stern and bold than Celestine III.,

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert