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See also:BENEDICT XIV . (Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini), See also:pope from 1740 to 1758, was See also:born at See also:Bologna on the 31st of See also:March 1675. At the See also:age of thirteen he entered the Collegium Clementinum at See also:Rome. He served the See also:Curia in many and important capacities, yet devoted his leisure See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to theological and canonistic study. Benedict XIII. made him See also:archbishop of See also:Theodosia in partibus, then of See also:Ancona (1727), and the next See also:year created him See also:cardinal See also:priest. In 1731 See also:Clement XII. translated him to his native cityof Bologna, where as archbishop he was both efficient and popular. He published valuable See also:works, notably De servorum Dei See also:beatification et canonizatione, De sacrificio missae, as well as a See also:treatise on the feasts of See also:Christ and the Virgin and of some See also:saints honoured in Bologna. In a See also:conclave which had lasted for months he was elected on the 17th of See also:August 1740 the successor of Clement XTI. Benedict XIV. was not merely See also:earnest and conscientious, but of incisive See also:intellect, and unfailingly cheerful and witty. In several respects he bettered the economic conditions of the pas al states, but was disinclined to undertake the needed thorough-going reform of its See also:administration. In See also:foreign politics he made important concessions to See also:Portugal, See also:Naples, See also:Sardinia, See also:Spain, and was the first pope expressly to recognize the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Prussia as such. In 1741 he issued the See also:bull Immensa pastorum principis; demanding more humane treatment for the See also:Indians of See also:Brazil and See also:Paraguay, and in the bulls Ex quo singulari (1742) and ©mnium sollicitudinum (1744) he rebuked the missionary methods of the See also:Jesuits in accommodating their See also:message to the See also:heathen usages of the See also:Chinese and of the natives of See also:Malabar. In See also:accord with the spirit of the age he reduced the number of See also:holy days in several See also:Catholic countries. To the end of his See also:life he kept up his studies and his intercourse with other scholars, and founded several learned See also:societies. His masterpiece, Libri octo. de synods diocesana, begun in Bologna, appeared during his pontificate. He died on the 3rd of May 1758.
His works, published in twelve See also:quarto volumes at Rome (1747-1751), appeared in more nearly See also:complete See also:editions at See also:Venice in 1767 and at See also:Prato, 1839–1846; also Briefe Benedicts XIV., ed. F. X. Kraus (2nd ed., See also:Freiburg, 1888); Benedicti XIV. Papae See also:opera inedita, ed. F. Heiner (Freiburg, 1904). See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, ii. 572 ff. ; Wetzer and Welter, Kirchenlexikon, ii. 317 ff . (W. W.
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