Sacred College

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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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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The death of Dell'Acqua, one of the Pope's closest aides, was the second in the Sacred College of Cardinals within a month and the fourth this year, reducing its number to 116.

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He found no takers, but several Italian newspapers bought his material after the Pope's death, and the angered Sacred College of Cardinals banned Galeazzi-Lisi from the Vatican.

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The Sacred College, when they were inform’d of the Pope’s Intentions, made smart Remonstrances to him, and every Cardinal in particular represented to him how unworthy Bichi was of the Purple.

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von