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Title: The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from St. Peter to Pius IX
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Artaud de Montor, Alexis Francois, 1772-1849 Neligan, William Hayes, d. 1886
Subjects: Catholic Church Papacy
Publisher: New York : Sadlier
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ir feet. The treaty of Aix-la-ChapeUe. 8. In splendoribvs SANCTOR\Ta: s. petrvs alcant., s. magdalena de PA2ZI. Saint Peterand Saint Magdalen are kneeling before Christ, seated on his throne, and giving each of them acrown. 9. .^lio ponte exornato. The bridge of Saint Angelo, seen opposite with its statues.Fame in the air sounding the trumpet. 10. Diligit dominvs decorem domvs genitricis sUiE. Struck on the embellishment pfSaint Mary Major, by order of the pope. He erected statues on the exterior apsis or sanctuary.View of the back of the Basilica. Bonanni also gives the ordinary medal bearing these wordri : 1. Tv dominvs et magister. Exemplvm dedi vobis. It was customary to distribute thismedal among the poor priests whose feet the pope washed on Holy Thursday. We shall notmention it again, unless we have to point out some essential variation. All are struck from thesame die, the head being changed. 2. Illvxit : illvcescat adhvc. roma. In the field, the Holy Ghost surrounded by rays.
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CLEMENT IX 131 a lover and protector of the arts. Rome, already so sumptuously adorned,yet needs further adornment. A sort of college of the learned and theartistic soon perceive what the new pope can do, and order some embel-lishment which has been postponed. And the reigning pope cannot receivesuch a request with indifference. As cardinal, he lived in that atmosphereof grandeur and beauty. He has perhaps whispered to himself: Is therenot something lacking here ? As pope, he can do what has been forgottenby his predecessors. All the men of wit and talent who were in Eome,represented to Clement IX. that the bridge of Saint Angelo did not accordwith the idea conceived by those who repair to Saint Peters. That bridge was constructed by iEHus Adrian; and the ancients called it,indifferently, the ^Han bridge or the bridge of Adrian. The idea of thatstructure was adopted by that emperor, not onl) to give access to his tomb,which was on the right bank of the Tiber, but also to afford a conv

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