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| | Pope Pius II |
 | | The pope did his best: he addressed an eloquent letter to the sultan urging him to become a Christian. | | | The failings of other popes have most frequently been those of the priest, and therefore in the true sense of the term inhuman. | | | The papal states were at this time greatly troubled by rebellious barons and marauding condottieri, but these evils graually abated. |
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http://1-free-software.com/en/wikipedia/p/po/pope_pius_ii.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Callistus III |
| | It was by order of Callistus III that the bells were rung at midday to remind the faithful that they should pray for the welfare of the crusaders. | | | But the pope refused to acknowledge Ferdinand's claim to Naples and, as feudal lord of the territory, asserted for himself the power of disposing of it as he wished. | | | His letters are to be found in Raynaldus, "Annales Eccl." from 1455 to 1458; see also Harduin, "Concilia", IX, 1375-78, D'Achéry, "Spicilegium", III (Paris ed. |
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| | On June 29, the feast of St. Peter and Paul, Pope Calixtus III called on all archbishops, bishops, and abbots in Christendom for prayer, fasting and penance for deliverance from the Turks, who three days later had fully invested the city of Belgrade. | | | John Capistran said Mass in Belgrade castle, and instructed the many priests present not to participate in any way in the battle, except by their prayers and assistance to the wounded. | | | There was no doubt of the total loyalty to the great preacher of the crusaders he has raised; if he would stay they would stay, and John Hunyadi would not be outdone by them in courage. |
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| | Pope Alexander VI: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | On the death of Pope Innocent VIII, the three likely candidates for the Holy See were Cardinals Borgia, Ascanio Sforza and Giuliano della Rovere; at no previous or subsequent election were such immense sums spent on bribery. | | | For many of his misdeeds his terrible son Cesare was responsible, but of others the pope cannot be acquitted. | | | Alexander now feared that the king might depose him for simony and summon a council, but he won over the bishop of Saint Malo, who had much influence over the king, with a cardinal's hat. |
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| | To pray for this victory Pope Calixtus III commanded all churches of Christendom to toll the bells at noon till eternity. | | | He died heirless; his successor, Andrew III (l290-130l), who issued from another branch of the Árpád dynasty, was succeeded as king of Hungary by King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia. | | | Although in the Roman calendar his feast is Sept. 2, it is Aug. 20, anniversary of the removal of his remains to a shrine, that is celebrated in Hungary as a great national holiday. |
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http://mek.oszk.hu/02000/02084/02084.doc
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| | Late Middle Ages - Pope Alexander VI |
| | His uncle was Pope Calixtus III, who created his career for him. | | | That is to say, he ruled the temporal Church reasonably well in rather difficult times. | | | They were all married, of course, so that appearances could be preserved, but everyone knew the truth. |
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http://history.boisestate.edu/hy309/papacy/alexandervi.html
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| | Calixtus III -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The repulse of the Turks from Belgrade on Aug. 6, 1456, was commemorated by Calixtus when he instituted the Feast of the Transfiguration (1457), ordering that it be observed on that day. | | | His pontificate revised St. Joan of Arc's trial by proclaiming her innocence. | | | Calixtus III -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9018687
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| | History of the Borgia Family |
| | Lucrezia Borgia gives birth to a son, the “Roman infant”, presumably born out of her realation with Perotto a servant of the pope. | | | Rodrigo Borgia and Juan del Mila are appointed cardinals by their uncle pope Calixtus III | | | Julius II accepts the offer of the bishop of Sion to have the defence of the Church in Rome entrusted to the Swiss cavalry |
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| | Chapter IV - From "Signs and Wonders" To Law In The Heavans. |
| | Thomas Aquinas, the great light of the universal Church in the thirteenth century, whose works the Pope now reigning commends as the centre and source of all university instruction, accepted and handed down the same opinion. | | | As far back as the time when Luther and Melanchthon and Zwingli were plunged into alarm by various comets from 1531 to 1539, Peter Apian kept his head sufficiently cool to make scientific notes of their paths through the heavens. | | | The sainted Albert the Great, the most noted genius of the medieval Church in natural science, received and developed this theory. |
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| | Calixtus III |
| | Popes of the Roman Catholic Church (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition) | | | The pope would not give away church lands and resented Alfonso's failure to help the crusade. | | | Calixtus' reign was embittered by a quarrel with Alfonso, who expected returns, notably the march of Ancona, for his friendship. |
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| | The Gray Monk: Science and religion |
| | The story, however, served as a very good propaganda tool for those of the "new" persuasion as an example of the manner in which the Church "repressed" scientific development. | | | Read any book on scientific discovery written in the last two hundred years and you will learn that the Church has tried at every turn to defeat the inexorable march of science. | | | The Pope Calixtus story of the comet is completely apochryphal and was first recorded a hundred years after his death - by a writer who was of the reformers' school. |
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| | Timeline 1450-1499 |
| | His work included "Ecclesiae militantis," a 5-part motet on Pope Eugenius IV’s short-lived supremacy over the Eastern Orthodox Church. | | | When Sunni Ali died rule was passed to his son, a non-Muslim. | | | Ferdinand I succeeded to the throne of Naples, but Pope Calixtus III declared the line of Aragon extinct and the kingdom a fief of the church. |
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| | Pope Calixtus III - definition of Pope Calixtus III in Encyclopedia |
| | He ordered a new trial for Joan of Arc, at which she was posthumously vindicated. | | | He became a cardinal after reconciling Pope Eugenius IV with King Alfonso V of Aragon. | | | The great object of his policy was the urging of a crusade against the Turks, who had captured Constantinople in 1453, but he did not find the Christian princes responsive to his call despite his every effort. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Pope_Calixtus_III
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| | Pope Alexander III |
| | Cosmae and Damiani; later he became cardinal priest of St Mark's. | | | Initial text from 1911 encyclopedia -- Please update as needed | | | August 30, 1181), was pope from 1159 to 1181. |
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| | Pope Calixtus III: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election. |
| | Thus they defeated Bessarion, who was gaining ground on both sides, as they could not risk having a Pope who had only recently been converted from the Greek schismatic Church, and was therefore zealous as all neophytes are. | | | Calixtus III was therefore elected, and the Borgias descended upon the Church of Rome, across whose history they were to leave such a sinister trail of blood-stained magnificence. | | | Cardinal Alfonso Borgia seemed the very man. A Spaniard: pleasantly cynical and making no mystery of his licentiousness or of his illegitimate children, in fact a pope after their own hearts. |
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http://www.pickle-publishing.com/papers/triple-crown-calixtus-iii.htm
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| | CALIXTUS III |
| | Unfortunately he had one defect, dangerous in a spiritual leader. | | | After that obstinate Spaniard died, Alonso used his influence to reconcile his shadow successor, Antipope Clement VIII, to Pope Martin V. Martin made him bishop of Valencia, and Alonso showed his loyalty by refusing the position of royal Aragonese envoy to the schismatic Council of Basel. | | | Eugene IV thereupon made him cardinal and invited him to join the papal curia, where he served with credit. |
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| | Late Middle Ages - Pope Calixtus III |
| | Calixtus takes his place among the Renaissance popes not so much for his patronage of the arts as for his notorious nepotism. | | | He was of noble Aragonese stock and had himself been a supporter of that most intransigent of schismatic popes, Benedict XIII. | | | In truth, his nepotism was on a modest scale, but the Roman families were long used to receive such perquisites for themselves and they were furious to see them going to foreigners. |
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| | Patron Saints Index: Pope Alexander VI |
| | Took Borja as his surname from his uncle Alfonso (Pope Calixtus III). | | | The favouritism shown his children, the lax moral tone of Renaissance Rome, and the unscrupulous methods employed by Cesare and other papal officials have made Alexander’s name the symbol of the worldly irreligion of Renaissance popes. | | | Elected pope by a corrupt conclave in 1492. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0214.htm
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| | Patron Saints Index: Pope Callistus III |
| | Initially supported anti-pope Benedict XIII, but he reconciled with the lawful Church, and helped Alfonso V bring the kingdom of Aragon back to orthodoxy. | | | He preached Crusade to re-take Constantinople from the Turks, the topic that would consume most of his papacy. | | | 209th Pope in 1455, he was considered a comprise candidate, was very elderly at the time of election, in poor health, and though he was known as a pious man with lofty goals, he had little skill for the office. |
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| | The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Papal elections - XV Century |
| | It is probable that the cardinals were less afraid of his Greek training and temperament than they were of his known austerity and passion for reform. | | | Of these cardinals, seven were absent from Rome during the whole period of the sede vacante: Foix, Olesnicki, Schaumberg, Szechy, d'Estouteville, Rolin, and Krebs. | | | Bessarion was absent from Rome when Nicholas died but hastened to the Eternal City and arrived in time to take part in the election. |
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| | Pope Sixtus IV . Pope |
| | At the death of Sixtus IV, the conclave of cardinals that met to elect his successor numbered 32 surviving cardinals, a greater number than at any time since the close of the twelfth century, excepting perhaps for the multiplied rival cardinalates of the Great Schism 1378 - 1417. | | | Of the 32, only three cardinals survived from before Pope Paul II Paul II 1464 - 71 : the two nephews of Pope Calixtus III Calixtus III 1455 - 58, Rodrigo and Luis Borgia, and the nephew of Pope Pius II Pius II 1458 - 64, Francesco di Nanni Todeschini de Piccolomini. | | | Six further cardinals survived from the pontificate of Paul II: Thomas Bourchier, Oliviero Caraffa, Marco Barbo, Jean Balue, Giovanni Battista Zeno and Giovanni Michiel. |
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| | calixtus iii |
| | Italian pope whose nepotism put the Borgia family in power in Italy 1378-1458 | | | Add the dictionary search box to your site! |
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