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The Spaniard Borgia, the only non-Italian member of the conclave that elected him, made himself pope with the help of generous bribes, handing out offices and privileges accumulated since his uncle Pope Callixtus III had made him a cardinal at the age of 25.
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The Spaniard Borgia, the only non-Italian member of the conclave that elected him, made himself pope with the help of generous bribes, handing out offices and privileges accumulated since his uncle Pope Callixtus III had made him a cardinal at the age of 25.
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Rodrigo moved to Italy when his uncle Alfons de Borja became Pope Callixtus III in 1455.
Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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Callixtus, very near the recently discovered crypt of Pope Cornelius, are two square sepulchral chambers, adorned with pictures of an early date.
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He was adopted into the immediate family of Callixtus and was known henceforward to the Italians as Rodrigo
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In the later Middle Ages there may be traced through a long series of pontificates the repeated confirmations of the Bull, assignable probably in the first instance to Pope Callixtus II (c. 1120) and known as "Sicut Judæis".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The most ancient Western canons relate to the admission or exclusion from public penance; for instance, the decision of Callixtus (Tertullian, "De pudic.", i) to admit adulterers, that of St. Cyril and the Council of Carthage in 251 (Ep. 56) to admit the lapsi or apostates, although the Council of Elvira
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The little hut among the oak trees was dim in the October twilight on the evening of St. Callixtus 'Day.
The Path of the King John Buchan 1907
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Thus Barbatianus, a priest from Antiochia, concealed himself in the Catacombs of Callixtus to escape the wrath of
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Academy, and its visits to the crypts of Callixtus.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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