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BENEDICT XII

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 718 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BENEDICT XII . (Jacques See also:Fournier), See also:pope from 1334 to 1342,1 the son of a See also:miller, was See also:born at Saverdun on the Arriege. Entering the Cistercian See also:cloister Bolbonne, and graduating See also:doctor of See also:theology at See also:Paris, he became in 1311 See also:abbot of Fontfroide, in 1317 See also:bishop of Pamiers and in 1326 of Mirepoix. Created See also:cardinal See also:priest of See also:Santa Prisca in 1327 by his See also:uncle See also:John XXII. he was elected his successor on the loth of See also:December 1334. Benedict made appointments carefully, reformed monastic orders and consistently opposed nepotism. Unable to remove his See also:capital to See also:Rome or to See also:Bologna, he began to erect a See also:great See also:palace at See also:Avignon. In 1336 he decided against a pet notion of John XXII. by saying that souls of See also:saints may attain the fulness of the beatific See also:vision before the last See also:judgment. In 1339 he entered upon fruitless negotiations looking toward the See also:reunion of the See also:Greek and See also:Roman churches. See also:French See also:influence made futile his See also:attempt to come to an understanding with the See also:emperor See also:Louis the Bavarian. He died on the 25th of See also:April 1342. See the source publications of G. Daumet (Lettres closes, patentes et curiales, .

. . Paris, 1899ff.), and J .-M .Vidal (Lettres communes, .. . Paris, 1903 ff.). (W. W.

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