Innocent XI
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Capita/, etc., but which was condemned by Innocent XI.
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by James MacCaffrey
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
As to Pope Innocent XI, he is the only Pope who expressed disapproval of Probabilism, and even he refrained from any official pronouncement.
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
The pope, Innocent XI, Odescalchi, is a rare and original figure, and James said truly that no man like him had sat on the see of Rome for centuries.
From Lectures on Modern history by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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