Sacred College

British  

noun

1. the collective body of the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church

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Sacred College

Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes.

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"Beyond those already listed," said John, "we have nominated as members of the Sacred College three other illustrious personages whose names we reserve to ourselves in pectore."

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There he received the Christmas felicitations of a score of cardinals, delivered in a speech by Gennaro Granito Cardinal Pignatelli di Bel-nionte, 81, dean of the Sacred College.

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Thanks to Pius XII's indifference to Vatican administrative detail, the Sacred College was then sadly depleted; so many cardinals were near death's door that the choice easily narrowed to a handful of prospects.

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But Clement XI. met with so much Opposition from the Sacred College, that he cou’d not accomplish it, and died.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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