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Prospero Lambertini

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Noun1.Prospero Lambertini - pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758)


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In the eighteenth century, Prospero Lambertini (later Benedict XIV), in a treatise on the requirements for a doctor of the church, wrote that the candidate had to be outstanding for holiness and distinguised doctrinal teaching; only a pope or general council could make the declaration.
 
 
 
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