Pope benedict xiv biography sample

EX QUO (On the Euchologion)

Pope Benedict

Encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV promulgated on 1 March 1756.

To the Archbishops, Bishops and Other Clerics, Secular and Regular, of the Greek Rite Who Enjoy Favor and Communion with the Apostolic See.

Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons, We Give You Greeting and Our Apostolic Blessing.

Ever since We first became Pope, We have proven Our fatherly love in embracing in Christ Our beloved eastern clergy and people, the Uniates as they are called, who are in agreement with Us and are free from the stain of schism. We have made every attempt to induce the schismatics to abandon their errors and join Us in Catholic unity. We do not intend to recall here all the measures We took for this purpose since the records of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith are filled with Our decrees on this subject and everyone can refer to Our apostolic letters and constitutions on ea

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Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment

Johns, Christopher M.S.. "Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment". Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality, edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher Johns and Philip Gavitt, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442624757-005

Johns, C. (2016). Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment. In R. Messbarger, C. Johns & P. Gavitt (Ed.), Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality (pp. 1-14). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442624757-005

Johns, C. 2016. Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment. In: Messbarger, R., Johns, C. and Gavitt, P. ed. Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 1-14. https://doi

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Bologna cardinal seen as great intellectual leader

Pierre Subleyras's portrait of Benedict XIV, painted in the early 1700s, is in the Palace of Versailles

Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, who would in his later years become Pope Benedict XIV, was born on this day in 1675 in Bologna.

Lambertini was a man of considerable intellect, considered one of the most erudite men of his time and arguably the greatest scholar of all the popes.

He promoted scientific learning, the baroque arts, the reinvigoration of the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the study of the human form.

He was Bishop of Ancona at the age of 52, Archbishop of Bologna at 56 and Pope at 65 but at no time did he consider his elevation to these posts an honour upon which to congratulate himself.  He saw them as the opportunity to do good and tackled each job with zeal and energy. A man of cheerful character, he set out never to allow anyone to leave his company dissatisfied or angry, without fe