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  • of the last popes not to have changed his name when elected to the papacy. ... year 540. He was born into a wealthy noble Roman family, in a period, however ...
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  • and Illyrians); the Western and the Eastern Roman Empires (challenged by the ... such as the Frankish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian ...
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  • on Mount Subasio. Remains from these Roman times can still be found ... The city, which had remained within the confines of the Roman walls ...
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  • a pure state of conformity with the Greco-Roman religion. As the etymological ... The Roman Catholic Church requires a promise of celibacy prior to ...
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  • refers to the judgment of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church with the ... of Parricide) were appointed in the Roman Kingdom to investigate and ...
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  • quot;) was the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs. This ... " dating back to the times of the Roman Republic, was eventually ...
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  • assembly (a Diet) of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a small town on the Rhine River located in what is now Germany. It ...
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  • Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Later Roman legends about Orion also ... Roman legends, for example, describe Orion as earthborn and of enormous ...
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  • Aristotelianism aroused the anger of the Roman Catholic Church, and a short ... Aristotelianism aroused the anger of the Roman Catholic Church, and a short ...
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  • After a message from Theodosius II was read, the Roman legates apologized ... the council's sentence in Leo I's name. He then escaped with difficulty ...
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  • popular Greek religion. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus, the ... linked to celestial deities. Uranus' Roman equivalent Caelus is based ...
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  • and is recognized today by both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox ... meant to kill her, saying: "In the name of Jesus Christ do I baptize ...
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  • museum, and a large, finely preserved Roman amphitheatre, which once ... The name traces back to “Ammon,” the capital of the Ammonites ...
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  • quot; in Latin means cross, and it was a Roman device of torture on which ... which paid the ransom for mankind."Roman Catholic Info, [http://romancatholicinfo ...
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  • The author of 2 Maccabees does not identify himself by name, but plays ... for their compromises with Greek and Roman authorities and the tradition ...
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  • In the Roman Empire, following military victory, Roman soldiers would often spear the ground to mark the location of spoils in which goods and ...
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  • was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic and a follower of ... and collected a large sum in taxes for the Roman Empire. Cato never relented ...
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  • calls never came back alive. However, later Roman authors expanded on the idea ... such as allusions, and outside of the Roman authors, few actually delved ...
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  • when it had been more or less united under Roman rule, was consequently reborn. ... Humanists believed one day the Roman Empire would rise again and restore ...
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  • public office, and state endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy. Even more ... school curriculum for both Protestant and Roman Catholic children. His scheme ...
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