| | Biography Pope Benedict XIV The Papal Library |
 | | Benedict XIV was born at Bologna on the 31st of March, 1675, and was the son of Marcellos Lambertini, senator, of illustrious family, and of Lucrezia Bulgarini. |
 | | The pope considered that a Corsican guard might be reestablished to suppress smuggling; and he took precautions against any abuse ensuing from the return of that force, who usually did their duty with a zeal and courage the pope loved often to reward. |
 | | Benedict appointed some Benedictines as bishops, and concord was insensibly established by the profound sagacity with which Benedict perceived the evil and applied to it the practical and possible remedy, which restored excited minds to obedience and true evangelical fraternity. |
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