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Celestine III

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noun

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


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Celestine III was raised to the papacy at 85.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the left, is the Church of S. Giovanni a Porta Latina, built in 1190 by Celestine III.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

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 D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley

Ingebiorg and her brother appealed to Pope Celestine III, who declared the sentence of divorce illegal and null.

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

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 Edward Hutton

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