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Example sentences for: popes

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On one of the seven hills of ancient Rome, the fortress-like Palazzo del Quirinale, once summer residence to popes fleeing the malarial swamps of the Vatican down by the Tiber, housed the new king of Italy after 1870, and since 1947 is the presidential palace.
Fazio , another case of either-or, can be a shortening of the first name Bonifazio , which means good fate' and which has been popular in Italy owing both to its meaning and to the fact that it was borne by a number of saints and popes.
For their churches and private palaces, popes and princes have stripped the Colosseum of its precious marble, travertine, and metal.
After publishing technology evolved from its scribbling-monks phase to its Gutenberg phase, a form of power once dominated by popes and other big shots was diffused, and the Reformation happened.
(Although his remains were reburied, subsequent popes had Formosus' body disinterred and further mutilated.)