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ADVOCATUS DIABOLI

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 242 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADVOCATUS DIABOLI , See also:

devil's, See also:advocate, the name popularly. given to the See also:promoter of the Faith (promoter fidei) , and officer of the Sacred See also:Congregation of See also:Rites at See also:Rome, whose See also:duty is to prepare all possible arguments against the See also:admission of any one to the See also:posthumous honours of See also:beatification and See also:canonization. This functionary is first formally mentioned under See also:Leo X.(1513-1521) in the proceedings in connexion with the canonization of St Lorenzo See also:Giustiniani. In 1631 See also:Urban VIII. made his presence, either in See also:person or by See also:deputy, necessary for the validity of any See also:act connected with the See also:process of beatification or canonization (see CANONIZATION). The phrase, " devil's advocate," has by an easy transference come to be used of any one who puts himself up, or is put up, for the See also:sake of promoting debate, to argue a See also:case in which he does not necessarily believe.

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