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Topic: Crescentii

	Washington Trail Blazers: Science
		Thereafter, the crescentii and beardslee began to decrease in size.
		In 1943, the station was closed and the crescentii and beardslee were no longer cultured.
		Eggs were formerly taken in the Lyre River in February, March, and April for the Beardslee, and in Barnes Creek from December through April with the majority taken in January for the crescentii.
	www.watrailblazers.org /science/crawford (10047 words)

	f. The Papacy and Italy. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Marozia, having imprisoned Pope John XI, took control of Rome.
		The Patrimonium Petri was a plaything of the Crescentii (Marozia's family), who maintained an intermittent supremacy in Rome during the 10th century.
		The papacy was without political power or spiritual prestige, and the western Church for all practical purposes became a loose organism under its bishops, who gave “national churches” such coherence as they had, and acknowledged a vague kind of allegiance to Rome.
	www.bartleby.com /67/465.html (618 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Pope Benedict VIII
		Pope during a period of renewed invasion of Europe by the Saracens, who established a settlement on Sicily; Benedict's forces kept them off the mainland.
		He subjugated the Crescentii, and allied with the Normans who were slowly moving into Italy.
		Worked for clerical discipline and celibacy, and convened a synod at Pavia to work against simony.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0144.htm (132 words)

	Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However much Romanus I might emphasize that the patriarchal appointment was wholly the concern of the Byzantine Church, in this case it was evidently considered worth while getting papal legates to come to the consecration, as they did.
		At this juncture it suited the tangled politics of the then dominant Crescentii family in Rome to be on good terms with the Byzantine Emperor, though (as was often stressed in the sources) Theophylact could hardly be regarded as an ideal candidate for the patriarchate.
		But his initial lack of experience and his continuing secular interests did not necessarily mean that ecclesiastical administration was neglected.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?action=getPage&docId=93808951&offset=1 (289 words)

	The Corrupt Papacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Deprived of the support of empire, the papacy became the possession of the great Roman families, a ticket to local dominance for which men were prepared to rape, murder and steal.
		Most of these men were manoeuvred into power by a succession of powerful families - the Theophylacts, the Crescentii, the Tusculani.
		John X, one of the few popes of this period to make a stand against aristocratic domination, was deposed and then murdered in the Castel Sant' Angelo by the Theophylacts, who had appointed him in the first place.
	members.aol.com /jasonte/papacy.htm (2060 words)

	Saint angel's castle, monuments of Rome, monuments of Rome, Italy
		In 537 A.D. during the invasions of the Goths led by Vitige it became one of the strongest fortress and even the many statues which decorated the monument were used as weapons against the enemy!
		Around the 10th century it was transformed into a castle and residence: fortified by Crescenzio, member of the family of Alberico, it took the name of castrum Crescentii.
		Teodorico transformed it into a prison (Carceres Theodorici) and it kept this function even under the papal and then the Italian government, until 1901.
	www.activitaly.it /inglese/monument/sangelo.htm (629 words)

	The (Iglesia Ni Cristo/Church of Christ) Doctrines
		The series of misconduct and foolishness which he inflicted on Rome gave the citizens enough reason to revolt.
		The Romans drove him away and, at the instigation of the Crescentii family (who opposed the Tusculans), declared a new Pope who took the name Sylvester III.
		But Benedict IX showed his enemies he was not elected Pope for nothing.
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	Pope John XVIII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		John XVIII, né Fasanius (born at Rapagnano near Ascoli Piceno, died June 1009), the son of a Roman priest named Leo, was pope from 1003 to 1009, was, during his whole pontificate, allegedly subordinate to the head of the Crescentii clan who controlled Rome, the patricius (an aristocratic military leader) Johannes Crescentius III.
		The period was disturbed by the conflicts between the Ottonian Emperor Henry II and Arduin of Ivrea, who had styled himself King of Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_John_XVIII (214 words)

	St. Pachomius Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Unwilling to be Pope Peter II, he took the name John.
		Emperor Otto II supported his election, but family of the Crescentii did not.
		After the death of Otto, John was deposed and imprisoned.
	www.voskrese.info /spl/Xjn14.html (52 words)

	A HISTORY OF THE CHURCH To the Eve of the Reformation : L.6, C.3.
		Yet the election was made unwillingly, and in circumstances that might easily have led to schism, and which did, six years later, actually lead to schism.
		In place of the Crescentii, the Theophylacts, the Cencii of previous centuries there were now the Pierleoni and the Frangepani.
		Each faction had its candidate, and the Pierleoni now triumphed, electing the cardinal Tommaso Buccapecci who took the name of Celestine II.
	www.franciscan-sfo.org /ap/hu/hb6-3.htm (2521 words)

	Cross versus Crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Concubinage carried the risk of creating heritable offices and the authority that went with them, What was true of the state of the German clergy was also true of that of the papacy, so that a reform party came into existence in Rome.
		The counts of Tusculum and the Crescentii, a Roman family, looked on the papacy as a family prize and fought to possess it.
		He was a young, scandalous, and vicious member of the Tusculan house.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/20crosscrown.html (2541 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Benedict VIII, Pope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Count of Tusculum, and brother of John XIX (XX), he was a layman before his election.
		As pope he subdued the Crescentii, defeated the Saracens, and crowned as emperor, Henry II of Germany from whom he received a charter confirming the donations of Charlemagne and Otto.
		He held a synod at Pavia in order to restrain simony.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd01181.htm (57 words)

	The Most Unholy Holy Fathers
		Duke Alberic of Spoleto helped him to remove Christopher, an antipope who had deposed Pope Leo V. The Roman consul Theophylact, his cruel wife Theodora, and this misbegotten Pope manipulated each other for their own ends.
		The ruthless Crescentii family would seek to dominate the Church for years.
		About the only good thing he did do was to restore the Basilica of St. John Lateran.
	apologetics.scriptmania.com /2900.htm (3362 words)

	Archives - National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception-LIVE
		Arrested and imprisoned in June 974 in CastelSant' Angelo, where he was strangled by order of his "successor," the antipope Boniface VIII.
		Considered a ruthless soldier; he spent much time on "search and destroy" missions against the Crescentii family; he also took part in a sea battle against the Saracen marauders (1016).
		Another scandal. In the fall of 1044, the private life of Benedict IX was of such depravity, that it caused a riot. The Crescentii Family drove Benedict from Rome.
	www.nationalshrine.com /site/pp.asp?c=etITK6OTG&b=130926 (399 words)

	Gregory -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		From the middle 10th to the early 11th century, Rome, and particularly the papacy, was chiefly ruled by the Crescentii, a powerful Roman family.
		After Pope Sergius IV's death (1012), the Crescentii uncanonically installed their candidate, Gregory, in the Lateran.
		A power struggle flared between the Crescentii and the Tusculani, a rival…
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9038022 (596 words)

	College of Cardinals - The Papal Conclave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While making elections more efficient, the decrees did not remove the troublesome Roman nobility and their ambitions toward the papacy from 843 and the decline of the Frankish Empire.
		The next centuries saw such ruthless families as the Crescentii and Tusculani scheme to have their candidates elected, freely murdering those popes who displeased them and deposing others.
		A major reform was achieved in 1059 when Pope Nicholas II decreed that the cardinal bishops should choose the popes, a procedure modified by the Third Lateran Council (1179), which declared an end to distinctions among the three orders of cardinals in terms of voting, and requiring that a candidate receive a two-thirds majority.
	www.osv.com /catholicalmanac/conclave.asp (884 words)

	Boniface VII -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		pope, or antipope, from June to July 974 and from August 984 to July 985; he owed his rule to the support of the Crescentii, a powerful and unscrupulous Roman family.
		A cardinal deacon, he ordered the murder of his predecessor, Benedict VI, and was installed by Crescentius I. Later, however, he was expelled at the behest of Otto II, the Holy Roman emperor, …
		He furthered the cause of monasticism and acted against simony, specifically in an encyclical letter in 981 forbidding the exaction of money for the conferring of any holy order.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9080609 (608 words)

	Attempted Reforms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Because here and nowis the time to best explain what the position of "pope" had become; a mere title, a piece of property to be passed back and forth between the scheming and feuding families of the Roman nobility: "...
		the House of Alberic, the Crescentii from the Sabine Hills, and later, the counts of Tusculum..." (Barraclough, 63) all of whom sought to establish themselves as hereditary rulers over Rome, and the surrounding lands.
		As early as 962, this problem had been recognized--first by Otto I, then by Otto II, who appointed John XIV, a non-Roman.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/vulkan/honors102/areforms.html (688 words)

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