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Holiness

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Holiness
a title once given to all bishops, but now reserved for the pope


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For these reasons his Holiness Pope Leo[*] found the pontificate most powerful, and it is to be hoped that, if others made it great in arms, he will make it still greater and more venerated by his goodness and infinite other virtues.
The Prince by Machiavelli, Nicolo View in context
Now get you to Camelot as fast as you can fly, brave knight, and show the writing to Clarence, and tell him to have these required matters in the Valley of Holiness with all possible dispatch.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
Then was he anointed and consecrated, and thus was fulfilled what he had heard from the frogs on his way, which had so affected him, that he was to be his Holiness the Pope.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
 
 
 
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