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3 days ago · Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great (German: Otto der Große Italian: Ottone il Grande) or Otto of Saxony (German: Otto von Sachsen Italian: Ottone di Sassonia), was East Frankish (German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973.
5 days ago · In 1414, Council of Constance was convened by the Pisan pope John XXIII to resolve the schism once and for all. [29] The council was also endorsed by the Roman pope Gregory XII, giving it greater legitimacy. [30]
6 days ago · Pope Pius XII’s letter to Archbishop McNicholas demonstrates the extent of the Pope and the Roman hierarchy’s support for the resettlement effort. As we can also see in other documents, the US bishops acted to aid refugees and Displaced Persons (DPs) both out of charity, and in obedience to a mandate from Rome that made refugee aid a priority.
2 days ago · The aftermath of this “outrage of Anagni” was the desertion of Rome by the popes and their long residence (1309–77) at Avignon (now in France), a chapter in church history called the “Babylonian Captivity” after the 70 years of Jewish exile in Babylon in the 6th century bc.
3 days ago · Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX, Pio Nono; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; [a] 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of 32 years is the longest of any pope in history.
2 days ago · On March 25, 1984, Pope John Paul II sought to finally accomplish what Our Lady of Fatima had requested seven decades earlier. He set out to consecrate communist Russia to her Immaculate Heart, the promised step to turning the Soviet state away from its wicked ways.
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5 days ago · And here’s another tie-in. Pius XII was the first pope to publicly name and promote Fatima. And he was the first pope to try to do a consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart as Our Lady requested at Fatima.
