For the pontificate of Leo the Thirteenth has differed from that of his predecessor in that it has been active rather than passive.
He is a great simplifier of details, and a strong leveller of obstructions, so that his successor in the pontificate will find it a comparatively easy thing to keep the mechanism in order in its present state.
The pontificate of Gregory the Great, which lasted thirteen years, six months, and ten days, is one of the most edifying periods of the history of the church.
Character And Pontificate Of Gregory The First.
Thus in the first year of his pontificate Innocent had established himself as the protector of the Italian nation against foreign aggression, and had consolidated in the peninsula a secure basis on which to build up his world-power.
In the last years of his pontificate he was busied with preparations for a crusade and for the reunion of Christendom, and sent to Constantinople the celebrated Carmelite monk, Peter Thomas, to negotiate with the claimants to the Greek throne.
Throughout his pontificate Innocent was completely dominated by his sister-in-law, Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, a woman of masculine spirit.
The pontificate of Innocent fell within an important period in European politics, and he himself played no insignificant role.
Three masters who died successively in thepontificate of Pius VI.
Sebastiano, and deserving honourable mention among the professors of Bologna, was invited to Rome in the pontificate of Gregory XIII.
With that year a reign commenced but little auspicious to art, and still less so was the Pontificate of Sixtus V.
Although this master had many able rivals, as we shall see, he still maintained his superiority, and on his death, his school continued to flourish until the pontificate of Benedict XIV.
He afterwards returned thither under thepontificate of Innocent X.
That academy was instituted in the pontificate of Gregory XIII.
The first became an excellent designer, and in the pontificate of Clement VIII.
Spirito in Sassia, intitle him to be numbered amongst the most eminent young artists who painted in Rome in the pontificateof Benedict XIV.
Francis, was afterwards, in the pontificate of Paul V.
This reign was followed by the pontificate of Urban VIII.
For this act he was condemned to the galleys for several years, and was liberated under the pontificate of Clement XI.
It was also during the pontificate of Urban, about the year 1626, that the burlesque style was first brought into notice in Rome.
The Capitoline Museum dates from the seventeenth century under the pontificate of Innocent X.
The contest over the pontificate still rankled in his breast.
The contest over the pontificategrew more and more acrimonious each minute.
This oath he kept during his whole pontificate of eighteen years, for he slipped down the Rhone to Avignon by boat, ascended on foot to the palace, and never left it except to visit the cathedral which adjoined it.
During the pontificate of Clement and the interregnum he had lived in peace, and might well imagine that his enthusiasm for the people of Languedoc had been forgotten.
A life of absolute purity and devotion as therein sketched was that which made Gregory's pontificate notable for its wisdom, its discretion, and its wise governance.
The Church always held its own, in faith though not in possessions, in Italy; and from the pontificate of Gregory the Great the moral force of the Catholic Society began to win the Lombards to its fold.
The pontificate of Gregory the Great affords significant illustrations of this influence.
Consecrated only by two bishops[7] on Easter Day, 556, he began a pontificate which was from the first disputed and even despised.
He found the power of the Roman pontificate so reduced by the negligence of his predecessors, that, with the exception of a few neighbouring towns, and the offerings of the faithful, he had scarcely anything whereon to subsist.
Could you not just as well have done what you said you had now the power to do by the privileges with which thatpontificate had invested you, even if you were not an augur, if you were consul?
From the Eighth Century to the Pontificate of Gregory VII.
This bull was not necessary in Spain, as the Inquisition of Aragon had taken cognizance of magic and sorcery, since the pontificate of John XXII.
The succeeding pontificate of Innocent the Sixth opened a new prospect of his deliverance and restoration; and the court of Avignon was persuaded, that the successful rebel could alone appease and reform the anarchy of the metropolis.
The eighteen years of his pontificate were one long effort, for the most part successful, to make the pope the arbiter of Europe.
History presents few spectacles more striking than that of Rome in the pontificate of Leo.
During the pontificateof Nicholas Rome became a vast workshop of erudition, a factory of translations from Greek into Latin.
From Florence he removed to Rome, where Reuchlin heard him lecture upon Thucydides in the pontificate of Sixtus IV.
Michael Angelo in his important post, and the tact to take the sting from Ligorio's removal by giving him the commission for the casino in the Vatican Gardens which (as it was not finished until the pontificate of Pius IV.
Ferdinando de Medici, then a cardinal, had just failed in his candidacy for the pontificate (outwitted by that fox Montalto).
The short and dark period of Gregory's pontificate was terrible, and his severity toward the robbers soon made him hated by the nobles and even by the equally rapacious cardinals.
Sylvester was deposed from his pontificate and condemned to penance in a monastery.
He refused to visit Italy, received the papal crown at Lyons, and spent the first years of hispontificate in Poitou and Gascony.
At this moment the long vacancy of the papacy, which followed the pontificate of Benedict XI.
Formello, di, Donato, deceased in the pontificateof Gregory XIII.
Francesco, painted at Rome in thepontificate of Gregory XIII.
Lecce, da, Matteo, painted in the pontificate of Gregory XIII.
Modenese, was employed in the pontificate of Sixtus V.
Puccini, Biagio, a Roman, painted about thepontificate of Clement XI.
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from the pontificate of Gregory XIII.
Piemontese, Cesare, flourished in the pontificateof Gregory XIII.
Indeed, the whole Pontificate of Ambrose is a history of successive victories of the Church over the State; but I shall limit myself to a bare outline of one of them.
Innocent the Eighth made them his mark from the beginning of his Pontificate to the end.
The nationalized hierarchy, however, continued to advance to greater degrees of power over the nations, until it reached its zenith under the pontificate of Gregory VII.
Peter, and it was confirmed by a second deed during the pontificate of Urban IV.
Proceeding to Rome, he was there employed by the Lodovisi under the pontificateof Gregory XV.
The change of government occurred in the pontificate of Clement VIII.
Endowed with such qualities, he was engaged by many noble houses in his native place; but on proceeding to Rome in the pontificate of Gregory XIII.
That he obtained no reputation at Rome, or Naples, as Vasari observes, was owing to his arriving in those cities too late, namely, in thepontificate of Paul III.
Lattanzio Mainardi, called by Baglione Lattanzio Bolognese, had visited Rome previous to Annibal, and in the pontificate of Sixtus V.
Though the sale of offices and oppressive taxation which disgraced his pontificate may in part be explained by the desperate condition of the papal finances and by his saving up gold for a crusade, nevertheless he indulged in unbecoming pomp.
During this pontificate occurred the burning of Giordano Bruno for heresy; and the tragedy of the Cenci (see the respective articles).
He was a man of upright, moderate and pacific intentions, but his pontificate of eleven years was anything but tranquil.
He was the first pope placed on the throne by the power of the German emperors, but his short pontificate was only signalized by the convocation of a council in which decrees were enacted against simony.
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