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Benedict XV

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Benedict XV Originally Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854-1922.
Pope (1914-1922) who sponsored World War I relief efforts and sought to mediate peace.
Benedict XV
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(Biographies / Benedict XV (1854-1922) M, Italian, RELIGION: pope) original name Giacomo della Chiesa. 1854-1922, pope (1914-22); noted for his repeated attempts to end World War I and for his organization of war relief
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Noun1.Benedict XV - pope who founded the Vatican service for prisoners of war during World War I (1854-1922)
Giacomo della Chiesa


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Pollard's 1999 biography of Benedict XV is appropriately entitled The Unknown Pope.
Who was Pope Benedict XV? by Cavalli, Dimitri / Catholic Insight
He believes, as Benedict XV wrote in his 1917 encyclical Humanis Generis, that 'some of the things revealed by Cod terrorize weak and corrupt human nature and are not in a position to attract the masses'.
How I remember John Paul II by Margueritte, Bernard / For A Change
Born Joseph Ratzinger in 1927, he chose the name Benedict XVI after Saint Benedict as well as Pope Benedict XV, who led the Church from 1914 to 1922.
A new Pope by Junior Scholastic
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