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  Pope Innocent XI
Innocent XI expressed his displeasure at these drastic measures and continued to withhold his approbation from the episcopal candidates as he had done heretofore.
Innocent XI notified the new French ambassador, Marquis de Lavardin, that he would not be recognized as ambassador in Rome unless he renounced this right.
Innocent XI was no less intent on preserving the purity of faith and morals among the clergy and the faithful.
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 Biography – Pope Innocent XI – The Papal Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Innocent XI was born on the 16th of May, 1611, of an illustrious family of Como, a city of the Milanese.
Innocent XI ordered an attentive examination into the conduct and capacity of all who were proposed for promotion to dignities; and to that end he named a congregation of four cardinals and four prelates, with instructions to regard merit as the sole claim to benefices, altogether irrespective of influence and patronage.
Innocent struck a medal with the legend, "Dextera tua, Domine, percussit inimicum." Ten thousand crowns were distributed to the poor; the pope opened the prisons of debtors and those guilty of minor offences, paying the debts of the one and remitting the unsatisfied penalty of the other.
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 Cultural Catholic - Pope Innocent XI
Pope Innocent XI was a man of piety, ability, and firmness and was deemed to be one of the greatest seventeenth century pontiffs.
Pope Innocent XI was strong in his dealings with King Louis XIV, but also prudent as The Sun Monarch was popular and would not sanction opposition from the pope.
Pope Innocent XI died on August 12, 1689 and was buried under the altar of San Sebastiano in Saint Peter’s Basilica.
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 BLESSED INNOCENT XI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BLESSED INNOCENT XI When the cardinals chose Benedetto Odescalchi to be Pope Innocent XI, they chose a man of piety, ability, and firmness who was to be one of the greatest seventeenth century pontiffs.
And the Pope was not impressed by the clumsy and highhanded treatment of French Protestants which culminated in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Innocent also was too prudent to encourage James II in his well-meant but untimely actions in favor of English Catholics.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Innocent I
The pope informed Honorius, Emperor of the West, of these proceedings, whereupon the latter wrote three letters to his brother, the Eastern Emperor Arcadius, and besought Arcadius to summon the Eastern bishops to a synod at Thessalonica, before which the Patriarch Theophilus was to appear.
Innocent informed Alexander of these proceedings, and as Alexander restored the name of John Chrysostom to the diptychs, the pope entered into communion with the Antiochene patriarch, and wrote him two letters, one in the name of a Roman synod of twenty Italian bishops, and one in his own name (Epp.
Innocent in his reply praised the African bishops, because, mindful of the authority of the Apostolic See, they had appealed to the Chair of Peter; he rejected the teachings of Pelagius and confirmed the decisions drawn up by the African Synods (Epp.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of September 2, 1686   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Canon of the patriarchal Lateran basilica in the pontificate of Pope Innocent XI (1676-1689).
On August 30, 1705, the pope appointed Theodore von Ludinghaus Wolff, titular bishop of Tripoli, coadjutor of Windau and Pilten, as administrator of the spiritual matters of the archdiocese.
Protonotary apostolic in the pontificate of Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667).
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 Pope Innocent XI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Innocent XI [[Image Link]] Innocent XI, né Benedetto Odescalchi (May 16, 1611 - August 12, 1689) was pope from 1676 to 1689.
He was born at Como in 1611, studied law at Rome and Naples, held successively the ofices of protonotary, president of the apostolic chamber, commissary of the Marco di Roma, and governor of Macarata; in 1647 Innocent X made him cardinal, and he afterwards successively became legate to Ferrara and bishop of Novara.
The feast day of Innocent XI is August 12.
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 Pope Innocent XI
Innocent XI, given name Benedetto Odescalchi, Roman Catholic Pope from 1676 to 1689, was born at Como on the 16th of May 1611.
His simple and blameless life, his conscientious discharge of duty, and his devotion to the needs of the poor had won for him such a name that, despite the opposition of France, he was chosen to succeed Pope Clement X on the 21st of September 1676.
The great object of Innocent's desire was the repulse of the Turks, and his unwearying efforts to that end entitled him to share in the glory of relieving Vienna (1683).
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of February 13, 1690   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During his nunciature in London, he was charged by Pope Innocent XI with the task of inducing the English monarch to intercede with King Louis XIV of France, in favor of the oppressed Protestants of that country.
Cleric of the Apostolic Chamber in the pontificate of Pope Innocent XI (1676-1689).
Referendary of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature of Justice and of Grace in the pontificate of Innocent XI (1676-1689).
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 Pope Innocent XI: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
Innocent immediately gave orders to his officials to ignore Lavardin's arrival and to withhold all the tokens of honour and deference to which foreign envoys were entitled.
Meanwhile the Pope lying low in the Vatican was made responsible by his disgruntled subjects for the inconvenience they suffered and was accused of cowardice and incompetence.
Innocent did not approve of tortures and executions, preferring more persuasive methods of saving sinners from damnation, though his zeal for the suppression of heresy was as great as that of any Inquisitor.
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 The Galileo Project
Although he was never ordained, he served the papacy and was made a çardinal by the pope in 1681.
He served the papal court in various capacities and was made a Cardinal in 1681 by Pope Innocent XI.
Pope Innocent XI made him a Cardinal in 1681.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of May 17, 1706   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Secretary of the S.C. of the Ecclesiastical Immunity in the pontificate of Pope Innocent XI.
Governor of Benevento in the pontificate of Pope Innocent XI.
Declined the appointments made by Pope Innocent XII of canon of the patriarchal Vatican basilica and voter of the Tribunals of the Apostolic Signature.
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 Pope Innocent XI    20 November 1679    Motu Proprio on the Rule of the Friars Minor
Pope Innocent XI 20 November 1679 Motu Proprio on the Rule of the Friars Minor
Pope Innocent XI The motu proprio on the Rule of the Friars Minor, November 20, 1679 A. Innocent XI for an everlasting memorial
Solicitudo Pastoralis The motu proprio of Pope Innocent XI, on the Rule of the Friars Minor, November 20, 1679 A. This Latin text is taken from the Bullarum Romanum, November 20, 1679 A. D., p.
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 Monument to Pope Pius XII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Pius XII (1939-58), who guided the Church during the difficult days of World War II could not fail to be honored in the Basilica he loved so dearly.
Opposite this monument is the one to his predecessor Pope Pius XI (1922-39), the pope of "dauntless faith", of the great social encyclicals, the pope of Catholic Action, of the missions, of the Eucharistic Congresses, of the University of the Sacred Heart.
Under the altar, between the two monuments in a crystal casket are the remains of the Blessed Pope Innocent XI (1676-89).
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 Joseph Connors and Louise Rice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The pope's authority ultimately derives from the king of France, and so there should be at least one quarter of the city that preserves a vestige of the old royal dominion ceded everywhere else to the pope.
He says that the present pope (Innocent XI), has a similar decree in mind and that many beautiful nude statues are in the process of being clothed with drapery, which should be an incentive to cover those of scant artistic worth as well.
Since the popes have not been able to extirpate it in Rome, he urges a policy of severe regulation, which would put the women under constant surveillance and make their lives as vile as possible, enveloped in poverty and moral ostracism, with the prostitute's grave as their inevitable fate.
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 Post-Reformation Popes
His Holiness Pope Innocent XI died on 12 August 1689 in Rome, in the 13th year of his pontificate, at the age of 78-years.
His Holiness Pope Innocent XII died on 27 September 1700 in Rome, in the 10th year of his pontificate, at the age of 85-years.
His Holiness Pope Innocent XIII died on 7 March 1724 in Rome, in the 3rd year of his pontificate, at the age of 68-years.
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 PAPAL DECREES: (papal1.htm)
For Pope Clement XI's Dogmatic Constitution Unigenitus on September 8, 1713 in which he condemned the heresies of Paschasius Quesnel in reinforcing the essence and meaning of grace and that outside the Church there is no grace, see UNIGENITUS
Pope Clement XIII, 248th in the line of Peter, was one of the first Roman Pontiffs to warn the world of the Masonic movement as he dealt with the problems created by the spread of Rationalism.
At the very beginning of his pontificate Pope Leo XII, the 252nd successor to be the recognized Keeper of the Keys, issued on May 5, 1824 his encyclical Ubi Primum which addressed the problems he faced after Napoleon's embarrassment of Rome.
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 PAPAL DECREES: (papal2.htm)
The longest reigning Pontiff outside of Saint Peter himself, Blessed Pope Pius IX was selected the 255th successor of Peter on June 21, 1846 and died on February 7, 1878 - 32 years in which he guided the Barque of Peter through the troubling times of the rise of modernism and the masonic movement.
Pope Saint Pius X was born Joseph Sarto and became the 257th Sovereign Pontiff on August 9, 1903.
;For the encyclicals, apostolic exhortations and Papal Bulls by Pope Pius XII, the last Traditional Pope and the last to speak ex cathedra with "Munificentissimus Deusi" on the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on November 1, 1950.
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 The Popes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This Pope's reign saw Communism move into Russia where religious life was laid waste, and World War I with the death of millions of Christians who were carnage in Flanders Field and elsewhere.
This Pope faced tremendous pressure from fascist and sinister powers in Germany and Italy, but he was an outspoken critic of Communism and Fascism which enraged Hitler.
Note that the list of popes is given most often in chronological order, except where sometimes the antipopes are bunched together by location instead of being interlaced with the official list.
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 Pope Innocent XI  20 November 1687  Apostolic Constitution
Apostolic Constitution of Pope Innocent XI issued November 20, 1687.
Then before returning to heaven he left on earth the Catholic Church his bride, as a new city, a holy Jerusalem, coming down from heaven without wrinkle or spot, one and holy, protected by his mighty weapons against the gates of hell.
God in past ages has created saints through the ministry of tyrants; now in truth he produces saints through the ministry of demons, who, by causing the aforesaid things contrary to the will, bring it about that they despise themselves the more and annihilate and resign themselves to God.
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 The Seventeenth Century 1641-1700   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Innocent X approves the Decree of Propaganda, condemning the Chinese rituals in the Mission field.
Pope Clement IX Pope Clement IX played a key role in the negotiations that ended the War of Revolution between Spain and France.
Pope Innocent XII prohibited the practice, common in Germany, of electoral chapters nominating to Bishoprics and Monasteries.
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 Blessed Innocent XI --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Pope Innocent X made him cardinal (1645), emissary to Ferrara, Italy, and bishop of Novara, Italy (1650).
He was elected pope on Sept. 21, 1676, against the opposition of King Louis XIV of France, who proved to be an enemy of ecclesiastical…
In appearance Louis XI was ugly and unkingly; in character he was unscrupulous and underhanded.
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 infallibledocuments
Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in encyclical letters does not itself demand consent, on the pretext that in writing such letters the popes do not exercise the supreme power of their teaching authority.
For these matters are taught with the ordinary teaching authority, of which it is true to say: 'He who heareth you, heareth Me'; and generally what is expounded and inculcated in encyclical letters already for other reasons appertains to Catholic doctrine.
But if the supreme pontiffs in their official documents purposely pass judgment on a matter up to that time under dispute, it is obvious that the matter, according to the mind and will of the same pontiffs, cannot be any longer considered a question open to discussion among theologians.
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 Gates of Vienna Books
Pope Innocent XI called for a Holy Alliance of Christian princes to resist the Muslim horde.
Innocent was a true Defender of the West who, according to John Stoye’s The Siege of Vienna, “never slackened since the day of his election” (in 1676) to organize a Crusade against the Sultan.
The papal nuncio, Pallavicini, was ordered by Innocent XI to use his powers, including those of his purse, to outbid the French.
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 The Episcopal Lineage of Blessed Pope Innocent XI
The Episcopal Lineage of Blessed Pope Innocent XI
BLESSED POPE INNOCENT XI Benedetto Odescalchi, Cardinal and Bishop of Novara, the future Blessed Pope Innocent XI.
Consecrated 29 January 1651 at Ferrara, in the Cathedral, by Francesco Maria Cardinal Macchiavelli, Titular Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop of Ferrara, assisted by Maffeo Vitale, Bishop of Mantova, and Giulio Borea, Bishop of Comacchio.
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 The Prophecies of St   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For instance of Pope Innocent XI, who reigned from 1676 to 1689 Malachay wrote "Bellua Insatiabilis", that is, "An insatiable beast." History records that Innocent was never "sine Cibo", that is, he was never without food!!
This Pope had an affinity for the spiritual world and received visions which have not been made public.
This final Pope will likely be Satan, taking the form of a man named Peter who will gain a worldwide allegiance and adoration.
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