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Callistus: see Calixtus Calixtus, Georgius (jôr`jēəs kəlĭk`stəs) ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In the third century a papal crypt in the Cemetery of Callistus on the Appian Way became the final resting place for several popes, starting with Anterus (d. Alexander VI (1492-1503) followed his uncle Callistus III (1455-58) and tried to turn the Papal States into a Borgia hereditary state. Deaths, seduction, fraud, hysterical sons, mild blackmail, and a secret cache of pornography contrive to batter Ashworth into such confusion that not even thinking sour thoughts about the third-century "sexually lax" Bishop Callistus can give him any comfort. |
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