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...One even featured a miniature Pope, a Christian conundrum that defies logic....
...This year, the Roman calendar is jam-packed with cultural happenings....
...The artworks in most rooms are a mix of classical 18th-century prints of Roman urns and contemporary lithographs....
...Zelenskyy met Pope Francis, who has been criticised by some Ukrainians for his reluctance to explicitly denounce Russia for its full-scale invasion....
...The Roman College is a sprawling complex of villas. Cypress and pine trees rise above tiled terracotta roofs....
...As I had once tried to tell Cath, in my own way, the watch’s rightful owner was a Roman named Matteo Chiesa....
...heart of the Roman Catholic Church....
...This grandiose building was the pet project of the then president, the committed Roman Catholic Félix Houphouët-Boigny....
...A hitherto uncatalogued games board by him here and the crucifix probably presented to Pope Paul V have also been added to the corpus of his works....
...Nominally about whether popes or secular monarchs had the right to appoint bishops, it was more fundamentally a struggle between popes and the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, a territory largely overlapping...
...No pope since Celestine V in 1294 had stepped down for personal reasons, although Gregory XII left office in 1415 under a deal among rival factions to end a 40-year schism in the Roman Catholic Church....
...Pope Eugenius IV suggested a simple solution: donate 10,000 florins to the Observant Dominican friars at San Marco....
...It gripped me, the very idea that another human being could be tasked with killing another in a totally unemotional way,” Pope told me....
...The contest is all the sharper because Pope Francis turns 86 next month....
...He had been the most senior Roman Catholic official to be found guilty of such charges....
...Fugger was the banker to emperors and popes. Artzt was the daughter of a high-ranking Augsburg patrician. Their union was less one of souls than of power and wealth....
...There were treatises in Latin and Majorcan Arabic, and an enormous Ottoman-era decree, crowned with the gleaming gold calligraphic tughra of the sultan; another bore the signature of a 12th-century pope....
...No sooner had the Lumière brothers invented the motion picture than in 1897 they gave the world Napoleon Meets the Pope. By 1914, there were already 180 films devoted to Bonaparte....
...Shellwork stretches back to antiquity, when it was used to decorate Greek and Roman pagan temples....
...with a pope, not an emperor, at its centre....
...doctorates”, and fluency in seven languages don’t prevent him from being every inch the action hero in O’Connor’s portrayal: a motorcycle-riding rebel whom we first meet threatening to knock out the teeth of a Roman...
...The greatest pope of his age, Gregory VII, had obliged an emperor to kneel before him in snow....
...When I ask him about carbonara, a supposed staple of Roman cooking, he looks away from the camera....
...Orphaned as an infant, Catherine spends her childhood at a convent before being kidnapped by the Holy Roman Emperor’s soldiers....
...Alternatively, Argentina wish he would be a playmaking linkman with 100 touches a game, like Juan Román Riquelme of the previous Albiceleste generation....
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