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Innocent VIII

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noun

  1. Giovanni Battista Cibò, 1432–92, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1484–92.


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This was equally ineffective, and he appealed again to Innocent VIII., who resolved to end the heresy with a decisive blow.

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It was venerated by Innocent VIII., with the college of cardinals, and enclosed by Mendoza in the silver shrine, where it is exposed three times a year from the balcony.

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Innocent VIII. designed its re-establishment, as necessary to the undertakings he meditated against the Mussulmans.

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They became in time known to the ruling Pontiff, Innocent VIII., who raised him to the episcopal dignity.

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Leger vouches for this fact; can any terms then be sufficiently severe for the cruelty of this monster Innocent VIII.

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