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| | ~The Life of Pope Pius IX~ Elected Pope. |
 | | Finally, when Pope Pius IX granted a Civic Guard for Rome, even Cardinal Gizzi resigned, realizing what the Pope, in his credulous enthusiasm did not see, that putting arms in the hands of the people was tantamount, at that time, to arming the revolutionaries. |
 | | Ubi primum, given in secret consistory on the seventeenth of December, 1847, Pope Pius IX showed himself deeply distressed that he should have been declared to be Liberal in matters of the Faith. |
 | | Pope Pius IX had already, in his first encyclical, Qui pluribus, of November 9, 1846, renewed the condemnations of his predecessors against "those baneful secret sects who have come forth from the darkness for the ruin and the devastation of the Church and State," and in the same encyclical he condemned: |
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