Sacred College

British  

noun

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

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Sacred College

For the first time in four centuries the Sacred College of Cardinals had been specially summoned to discuss church affairs.

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With measured tread, the Sacred College advances down the two long aisles in a swirl of scarlet and incense.

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On June 19, the members of the Sacred College of Cardinals, each to be accompanied by one aide, will assemble in the Sistine Chapel.

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I think the time has come," he said, "to fill the sad vacancies in the Sacred College.

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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