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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Crescentius
		Crescentius the Elder was a descendant of this family, being a son of Theodora, the daughter of Theophylactus.
		His protector Crescentius towards the end of his life, whether before or after the restoration of Boniface VII is uncertain, took the monastic habit in the monastery of St. Alexius on the Aventine, where he died, 7 July, 984, and was buried within the cloister.
		Crescentius the Younger took the title of Patricius Romanorum, by which he meant to express that he was ruler in Rome, though not altogether independent of the imperial authority; he considered himself as a lieutenant of the emperor.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04484c.htm (1525 words)

	JOHN XVI. - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN XVI. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On his way back he either accidentally or at the pecial request of Crescentius visited Rome.
		A little before his Gregory V., at the end of 996, had been compelled to flee :rom the city; and the wily and ambitious Greek had now no icruple in accepting the papal tiara from the hands of Crescentius.
		The arrival of Otto at Rome in the spring of 998 put a sudden end to the teacherous compact.
	75.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JO/JOHN_XVI_.htm (165 words)

	OTTO IV. - LoveToKnow Article on OTTO IV. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On his return to Germany, the emperor learned that Gregory had been driven from Rome, which was again in the power of John Crescentius, patrician of the Romans, and that a new pope, John XVI., had been elected.
		A visit to southern Italy, where many of the princes did homage to the emperor, was cut short by the death of the pope, to whose chair Otto then appointed his former tutor Gerbert, who took the name of Sylvester II.
		The mystic erratic temperament of Otto, alternating between the most magnificent scheires of empire, and the lowest depths of self-debasement, was not conducive to the welfare of his dominions, and during his reign the conditions of Germany deteriorated.
	46.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OT/OTTO_IV_.htm (2454 words)

	Saints of July 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Modern scholars question his existence and reject the story of his conversion (Benedictines).
		According to tradition, Romulus was a Roman converted by Saint Peter who became the first bishop of Fiesole, Italy, and suffered martyrdom there with Carissimus, Dulcissimus, and Crescentius during the reign of Emperor Domitian.
		A worthless 11th-century fiction has him the illegitimate son of Lucerna and her father's slave Cyrus.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0706.htm (1707 words)

	PATRICK, ST - Online Information article about PATRICK, ST
		Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
		John Crescentius, and many leading men who received it from See also:
		In ro46 it returned to the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PATRICK_ST.html (2804 words)

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