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Clement XIV
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Clement XIV, 1705–74, pope (1769–74), an Italian (b. near Rimini) named Lorenzo Ganganelli; successor of Clement XIII. He was prominent for many years in pontifical affairs at Rome, and he was created cardinal in 1759. He was a Conventual Franciscan. He inherited from his predecessor the hostility of every state of Catholic Europe. Clement XIV's part in the suppression of the Jesuits (see Jesus, Society of Jesus, Society of, religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. Its members are called Jesuits. St. Ignatius of Loyola, its founder, named it Companã de Jess [Span.,=(military) company of Jesus]; in Latin it is Societas Jesu (abbr. S.J.).
..... Click the link for more information. ) has been greatly discussed; he was probably pressured into it. The suppression removed the pope's only independent support and put the church into the hands of the secular princes. He was succeeded by Pius VI.
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In 1775, two years after the dissolution of the Society of Jesus by Pope Clement XIV, Empress Maria Teresa was asked to approve the founding of a scientific Academy in Vienna.
Catholic Physics: Jesuit Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Germany by Feingold, Mordechai / Renaissance Quarterly
17 Which (later reinstated) Roman Catholic society was suppressed at the order of Pope Clement XIV in 1773?
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One such tale involved the Baron, in return for some heroic act, being given the keys to the seraglio of the "Grand Seignior" of Constantinople, another described how the Baron's cousin was conceived when a hungry Pope Clement XIV, on his way to Good Friday services, stopped to sample some oysters which so inflamed him that he sampled the oyster lady as well.
Inventing Claude Debussy by Penrose, James F. / New Criterion
 
 
 
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