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    Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment

    Johns, Christopher M.S.. "Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment". Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality, edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher Johns and Philip Gavitt, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442624757-005

    Johns, C. (2016). Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment. In R. Messbarger, C. Johns & P. Gavitt (Ed.), Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality (pp. 1-14). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442624757-005

    Johns, C. 2016. Introduction: The Scholars’ Pope: Benedict XIV and the Catholic Enlightenment. In: Messbarger, R., Johns, C. and Gavitt, P. ed. Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 1-14. https://doi

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    Pope Benedict XIV

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    (PROSPERO LORENZO LAMBERTINI.)

    Son of Marcello Lambertini and Lucretia Bulgarini, b. at Bologna 31 March, 1675; d. 3 May, 1758. His early education was received from tutors. At the age of thirteen he went to the Collegium Clementianum in Rome where he studied rhetoric, philosophy, and theology. St. Thomas Aquinas was his favourite author, but the bent of his own mind was towards historical and legal studies in which latter he excelled, as well in civil as in ecclesiastical law. In 1694, though only nineteen, he received the degree of Doctor of Theology and Doctor Utriusque Juris (canon and civil law). On the death of Innocent XII he was made consistorial advocate by Clement XI, and shortly afterwards Consultor of the Holy Office. In 1708 he was

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    Pope Benedict XIV - 1 March 1756 - On the Euchologion

    EX QUO (On the Euchologion)

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    Encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV promulgated on 1 March 1756.

    To the Archbishops, Bishops and Other Clerics, Secular and Regular, of the Greek Rite Who Enjoy Favor and Communion with the Apostolic See.

    Venerable Brothers and Beloved Sons, We Give You Greeting and Our Apostolic Blessing.

    Ever since We first became Pope, We have proven Our fatherly love in embracing in Christ Our beloved eastern clergy and people, the Uniates as they are called, who are in agreement with Us and are free from the stain of schism. We have made every attempt to induce the schismatics to abandon their errors and join Us in Catholic unity. We do not intend to recall here all the measures We took for this purpose since the records of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith are filled with Our decrees on this subject and everyone can refer to Our apostolic letters and constitutions on ea