Innocent XI
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When he began to fix his mind on the constitutional history of the Church, he proposed to write, first, on the times of Innocent XI.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
Pope Innocent XI condemned the teaching that one may use homicidal defense to protect a coin or the prospect of receiving an office.
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
Here he was employed on important diplomatic business; Pope Innocent XI made him titular Bishop of Spiga in the West Indies, and in 1698 he was Ambassador at Brussels.
From Handel by Edward J. Dent
Two bishops, however, stood out against the edicts, and were deprived of their revenues in consequence; they were at the same time supported in their opposition by Pope Innocent XI.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
The following sketch of the life of Innocent XI.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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