NOUN
- pope who was a patron of the arts and who denounced the cruelty to the indigenous peoples of South America (1675-1758)
How To Use Benedict XIV In A Sentence
- Originally these classes of books were inserted in the alphabetical list mostly under the word libri until the Index was reformed under Benedict XIV. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- He held the office of Promotor Fidei --- paradoxically called advocatus diaboli --- for more than 20 years, before rising to the papacy (Benedict XIV) in 1740. Te Deum laudamus!
- That particular debate, so far as the Church was concerned, had been closed since at least 1741 when Benedict XIV bid the Holy Office grant an imprimatur to the first edition of the Complete Works of Galileo.
