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See also:CLEMENT XIII . (Carlo della Torre Rezzonico), See also:pope from 1758 to 1769, was See also:born in See also:Venice, on the 7th of See also:March 1693, filled various important posts in the See also:Curia, became See also:cardinal in 1737, See also:bishop of See also:Padua in 1743, and succeeded See also:Benedict XIV. as pope on the 6th of See also:July 1758. He was a See also:man of upright, moderate and pacific intentions, but his pontificate of eleven years was anything but tranquil. The See also:Jesuits had fallen upon evil days; in 1758 See also:Pombal expelled them from See also:Portugal; his example was followed by the See also:Bourbon countries—France, See also:Spain, the Two Sicilies and See also:Parma (1764-1768). The See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order turned to the pope as its natural See also:protector; but his protests (cf. the See also:bull A postolicum pascendi munus, 7th of See also:January 1765) were unheeded (see JESUITS). A clash with Parma occurred to aggravate his troubles. The Bourbon See also:kings espoused their relative's See also:quarrel, seized See also:Avignon, See also:Benevento and See also:Ponte Corvo, and See also:united in a See also:peremptory demand for the suppression of the Jesuits (January 1769). Driven to extremities, Clement consented to See also:call a See also:Consistory to consider the step, but on the very See also:eve of the See also:day set for its See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting he died (2nd of See also:February 1769), not without suspicion of See also:poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive See also:evidence.
A contemporary See also:account of Clement was written by Augustin de See also:Andres y Sobinas, . . . el nacimiento, estudios y empleos de . . . Clem. XIII. (See also:Madrid, 1759). Ravignan's Clement XIII. e Clement XIV. (See also:Paris, 1854) is See also:partisan but See also:free from rancour; and appends many interesting documents. See also the See also:bibliographical See also:note under Clement XIV. infra.; and the extended bibliography in See also:Hergenrother, Allg. Kirchengesch. (188o), iii. 509. (T. F.
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