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| | Pope Clement XIII -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The pamphlet titled the Brief Relation, which represented the Jesuits as having set up virtually an independent kingdom in South America under their own sovereignty, and of tyrannizing the Indians, all in the interest of an insatiable ambition and avarice, whether or not it was completely true, was damaging to the Jesuit cause. |
 | | Driven to extremities, Clement consented to call a (A church tribunal or governing body) Consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died (February 2, 1769), not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence. |
 | | Clement XIII was "the honestest man in the world; a most exemplary ecclesiastic; of the purest morals; devout, steady, learned, diligent..." |
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