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Benedict XIV

noun
1.
Pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758).  Synonym: Prospero Lambertini.






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... shore. The dry channels (fiumi morti) and the large estuaries (stagno di Ponente, di Levante) mark the changes of the river, and the efforts of the sea. Consult, for the present state of this dreary and desolate tract, the excellent map of the ecclesiastical state by the mathematicians of Benedict XIV.; an actual survey of the Agro Romano, in six sheets, by Cingolani, which contains 113,819 rubbia, (about 570,000 acres;) and the large topographical map of Ameti, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon

... servants of God, ad effectum Canonizationis." This is intended to prevent any Catholic taking the words about St. Alfonso's works in too large a sense. Before a Saint is canonized, his works are examined, and a judgment pronounced upon them. Pope Benedict XIV. says, "The end or scope of this judgment is, that it may appear, whether the doctrine of the servant of God, which he has brought out in his writings, is free from any soever theological censure." And he remarks in addition, "It never can be said that the doctrine ...
— Apologia Pro Vita Sua • John Henry Cardinal Newman



Words linked to "Benedict XIV" :   Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, pontiff, Prospero Lambertini, pope, Holy Father, Vicar of Christ, Roman Catholic Pope



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