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Clement XIV

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Noun1.Clement XIV - Italian pope from 1769 to 1774 who lost whatever support remained of Catholic Europe, causing the church to fall into the hands of secular princes (1705-1774)


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Peter's but were then moved elsewhere, among them: Eugene IV, Callistus III, Pius II, Alexander VI, Leo X, Hadrian VI, Pius IV, Pius V, Clement VIII, Paul V, Gregory XV, Innocent X, Clement IX, Benedict XIII, and Clement XIV.
By that time the popes were definitely not "above the nations," and the next period, "protest and division," begins with an account of the Renaissance papacy (including an insightful discussion of Nicholas [1447-55]) and ends mordantly with the pusillanimous and servile Clement XIV (1769 - 74).
It was on July 21, 1773--233 years after the company's solemn investiture by Pope Paul III--that another pope, Clement XIV, jostled, harassed, and threatened by the four Most Christian sovereigns of Lisbon, Paris, Madrid, and Naples--all shrines of Jesuitism--abolished Ignatius's Company.
 
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