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Innocent XII

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noun

  1. Antonio Pignatelli, 1615–1700, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1691–1700.


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Innocent XII ordered it to be destroyed in 1697.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2010

Pope Innocent XII died in 1700, and with the beginning of the eighteenth century we feel that we are in our own times.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh

Maria degli Angeli; beyond which is the tomb of Innocent XII.,

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

In 1692 he was called to Rome by Innocent XII, to take the place of his preacher-in-ordinary.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

This is what appears from the letter mentioned above, written by five distinguished prelates of France to Pope Innocent XII, against that posthumous book by Cardinal Sfondrati.

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by E.M. Huggard

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