The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ation and deposition of Henry IV,which to Galileans and Protestants seemed offen-sive. -Although full justice can scarcely be done to thevirtuous life and the fatherly zeal for the interestsof religion of Benedict, his pontificate lost much ofits lustre because of his misplaced confidence inCardinal Nicolo Coscia, who had been his coadjutorat Benevcnto. The pope was ignorant of the pecula-tions and venality of his favourite, whose greed didmuch
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ation and deposition of Henry IV,which to Galileans and Protestants seemed offen-sive. -Although full justice can scarcely be done to thevirtuous life and the fatherly zeal for the interestsof religion of Benedict, his pontificate lost much ofits lustre because of his misplaced confidence inCardinal Nicolo Coscia, who had been his coadjutorat Benevcnto. The pope was ignorant of the pecula-tions and venality of his favourite, whose greed didmuch to the prestige of the Holy See, andagainst whom a popular uprising took place on thepopes death, resulting in a ten years imprisonmentfor this unworthy cardinal. Benedicts theologicalwritings were published in three volumes (Ravenna,172S1. yuETlF-EcHARD, Script. Ord. Prod., I, SI 4; Cavaliehi,Gallena de sommi pontefict, Patriarchi . . deW O. P. (Bene-venti., 1690), I. 668; Pittoni, Vita del sommo fo-nlcfice Bene-detto Mil (Venice, 1730); Borgia, Benedicti XIII nla (Rome,1752); GuARNACci, Hiat. pontif. roman., I, 39, II, 409 sqq •. Arms of BenedictXIV &ANDINI, T ilir pontil. roman. (Rome, 1703); , Papatae-schlchtt (Ratisbon, 1875); .Sextis, Die Mowirrhin Simla(Freiburg, 1869), sqq.; .Vrtaud de JIontor, Historu ofthe Roman Pontiffs (New York, 1867), II. Patrick J. Healy. Benedict XIV (Prospero Lorenzo Laiibertini)son of Marcello Lambertini and Lucretia Bulgarinib. at Bologna 31 March, 1675; d. 3 May, 1758. Hisearly education was received from tutors. At the ageof thirteen he went to the Collegium Clementinum TnRome where he studied rhet-oric, philosophy, and Thomas Aquinas was hisfavourite author, but the bentof his own mind was towardshistorical and legal studies inAAhich latter he excelled, aswell in civil as in ecclesiasticallaw. In 1694, though onlynineteen, he received the degreeof Doctor of Theology and Doc-tor Uiriusque Juris (canon an
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