The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . AVING laid before our readers the lives, reigns,and acts of two hundred and thirty-seven of thelong line of Roman pontiflfs, bringing dovsTi the his-tory of the papacy to the beginning of the seven-teenth century, we pause to make another briefsummary of the reigns of the last few popes, em-bracing the period between Leo X. and Paul life of the great Leo X. flowed majesticallythrough the magnificences of a reign of glory and the tribulations of a pontifi-cate beset with thorns, the result of long distractions of the Chur
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . AVING laid before our readers the lives, reigns,and acts of two hundred and thirty-seven of thelong line of Roman pontiflfs, bringing dovsTi the his-tory of the papacy to the beginning of the seven-teenth century, we pause to make another briefsummary of the reigns of the last few popes, em-bracing the period between Leo X. and Paul life of the great Leo X. flowed majesticallythrough the magnificences of a reign of glory and the tribulations of a pontifi-cate beset with thorns, the result of long distractions of the Church. Afterweighing the opinions and the various judgments of other historians, Eos-coe, a Protestant, says: We have the most satisfactory evidence of thepurity of this popes morals, alike in his early youth and on the throne;and the example of chastity and decency which he gave, was all the moreremarkable, because it was rare in the time in which he Uved. Alone among those who have imposed their name upon their century,Leo X. obtained, in addition, that i-enown fo
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