The following day the Admiral sent to Guaccanarillo a Sevillan called Melchior, who had once been sent by the King and the Queen to the sovereign Pontiff when they captured Malaga.
Although the newly elected Pontiff expressed an amiable wish to see his old friend in Rome, he offered him no definite position in Curia.
The drift of the story and its application were intended to show that the deceased pontiff did not despair of a Jew’s salvation.
Paulo, and the prostration of the Pontiff and his Cardinals on the floor, in the midst of darkness, candles having been extinguished, one by one.
O mighty God and sovereign Master, dispose of me, make me if such be Thy good pleasure the pontiff of destruction, the pontiff of the death of the world.
For three years he governed that diocese with such rare wisdom and intelligence that the Sovereign Pontiff decided that he ought to be placed in a position wherein his abilities and zeal might have a wider field.
This favor, however, the Emperor refused to grant, so that the new Pontiff was restricted to the insignificant monastery church of St. George for a function that called for the splendors of a mighty temple.
It was while at Venice, that he learned of the death of the Sovereign Pontiff and remaining there took part in the Conclave that elected a successor.
This decision of the Sovereign Pontiff only rendered the Emperor all the more furious, and incited him to renew the discomforts of his prisoner.
Again the Pope renewed his refusal, though, for the sake of peace, he agreed that if the sovereign Pontiff should delay such institution for six months, it might then be granted by the metropolitan or senior bishop.
All the political prisoners and exiles were amnestied on the condition of recognizing the Supreme Pontiff as their legitimate king, and of serving him as loyal subjects.
The law of guarantees which holds the person and good name of the Sovereign Pontiff inviolable, offers in fact but little security in the time of need.
It was the intention of the Directory to deport the Holy Pontiff to the island of Sardinia; but it abandoned this design in the fear that the English might attempt his deliverance.
The holy Pontiff then published in the face of Europe a solemn protest against the unjust pretensions of Napoleon.
This concession proved unfortunate for Napoleon, for scarcely had they gained access to the Sovereign Pontiffthan they began to represent to him the immense importance of the Concordat which he had signed.
The aged Pontiff demanded the act of submission as a necessary condition before the great ceremony should proceed, and Bonaparte, tacitly acknowledging his defeat, yielded.
In the West African kingdom of Congo there was a supreme pontiff called Chitome or Chitombe, whom the negroes regarded as a god on earth and all-powerful in heaven.
M11) Among the Grebo people of Sierra Leone there is a pontiff who bears the title of Bodia and has been compared, on somewhat slender grounds, to the high priest of the Jews.
Bodia or Bodio, a West African pontiff or fetish king, 14 sq.
The supernatural powers attributed to this pontiff are not specified, but probably they resembled those of the Mikado and Chitome.
Such was the respect paid to the Supreme Pontiff in the Holy City, and deference to his sentence was not to be expected in more distant parts.
Her consent might have deferred the separation of the English Church from Rome; it would certainly have relieved the Supreme Pontiff from a humiliating and intolerable position.
They look like men who could come home from fighting the French in Canada, or from chasing the whale among the icebergs of Labrador, to be scared by the menaces of a pontiff like Cotton Mather.
Liddell to the See of Down, was published with due solemnity in Viterbo, where the Pontiff then resided.
This pontiff honoured and revered Ximenes, and still more he loved the fine arts.
Pontiff enumerates the reasons why he felt so much solicitude for the welfare of the English monarch.
According to our religious notions, as you must know, the Roman pontiff is the vicar of Christ, and infallible; he can never err.
He did not deny that Charlemagne was crowned by a pontiff in Italy, but this ceremony was performed at Rome, where that Prince was proclaimed an Emperor of the Holy Roman and German Empires, as well as a King of Lombardy and Italy.
If the present Roman pontiff acts differently from what his Master and predecessors would have done, can he be the vicar of our Saviour?
Without the decision of the Sacred College, effected in the manner already stated, the majority of the faithful believe that this pontiff would have preferred obscurity to disgrace.
Thereupon prayers of thanksgiving were recited and then the august Pontiff celebrated Holy Mass.
But he desired to have the sanction of the Sovereign Pontiff for this undertaking, and therefore bent his steps to Rome, preaching as he went the truths of salvation, which God confirmed by miracles.
Innocent III, a Pontiffof great wisdom, acknowledged the candor and the admirable courage and zeal of the servant of God.
God and the Sovereign Pontiff raised them to a religious body.
The Sovereign Pontiff declared that henceforth the place shall be called "Hill of Paradise" and later on laid the corner-stone for the new edifice.
On awaking, he had recourse to prayer; then he called Masse, and said to him with great exultation: "I can assure you that the indulgence which has been granted to me by the Sovereign Pontiff is confirmed in Heaven.
Moses here begins by describing Noah as the highest pontiff and priest, or, as Peter calls him, a preacher of righteousness.
Such a story as this is only fit to be told to a Roman pontiff of the age of forty, who alone is worthy of listening to such fables.
It is clear, therefore, that the heedlessness of the old world was very great, inasmuch as in the one hundred and twenty years of grace it obstinately persisted in its lusts, even deriding its pontiff Noah, the teacher of righteousness.
But if it please God, spare the Roman pontiff and his holy bishops, who do not believe such things!
He permits the Roman pontiff and his adherents to think that the pope is the Church.
The warmth of the pontiff communicated itself to the crowd, and the enthusiasm of the people broke out several times ere he concluded his address.
But the pope’s champion against the emperor, Francis I, had recently died, and the pontiff was obliged to salute the rising sun of Spain, in the hope that he would prove a better friend to Rome than his father was.
The king scornfully and coldly rebuked even the pontiff for his weakness.
The arrogant and intemperate pontiff launched against the emperor and his son invective more bitter even than he did against heretics.
The Pontiff himself must declare with what intention he commands what the Gospel does not require.
Some one will say, this is to accuse the Roman Pontiff who teaches that which the Apostle condemns.
Was their pontiff the successor of St. Peter who reigned at Rome, or the wicked schismatic who had set himself up at Avignon?
A church solemnity or ceremony celebrated at Rome, at stated intervals, originally of one hundred years, but latterly of twenty-five; a plenary and extraordinary indulgence granted by the sovereign pontiff to the universal church.
Ocean Lama], the supreme pontiff in the lamaistic hierarchy.
The eldest son of the reigning pontiff inherited the throne of Yopaa, or in default of children, the high-priest's nearest relative succeeded.
Quauhtemoc, were each made pontiffbefore the royal crown was placed upon their head.
The Wiyanas were divided into several orders, but all were ruled in the most absolute manner by the pontiff of Yopaa.
As the Pontiff concluded, a glad responsive “Amen” resounded through the crowded temple.
These publications were in sympathy, at first, with the Pontiff and his reforming ministry.
The Holy Pontiff maintained, by means of popular schools, a necessary warfare against both Protestant and Atheistic propagandism.
Now God Himself has established the Sovereign Pontiff in order to direct and enlighten society, to point out evil and indicate the proper remedy.
They had forbidden the presence of the Italian bishops at Rome, and nevertheless they dared to complain that almost all the bishops who gathered around the Sovereign Pontiff were strangers in Italy.
They made a fashion of providing, at the same time, that the Pontiff should have all necessary guarantees for his independence in the exercise of his spiritual office.
In the meantime, however, the rule of the Pontiff was characterized by wise, just, humane and liberal acts, which could not fail to pave the way for the greater improvements which he meditated.
They were only anxious that the views of the Pontiff should be speedily carried into effect.
Accept, Holy Father, Pontiff and King, this energetic protest and the unlimited devotedness which the nobles of Rome offer in reverence to your Sceptre, no less than to your Pastoral staff.
It was when Rome and the Sovereign Pontiff were threatened by popular commotions.
The Jewish people generally beheld in the wise and Holy Pontiff the looked-for Messiah.
Thereat the pontiff woke, Trembling, and muttering o'er his fearful dream.
And in the hand he lifted up The Pontiff marvelled to behold Once more his mother's silver cup.
The priesthood of each must have been too numerous and powerful to surrender its rights to a single pontiff, or to allow such a pontiff to wrest from it its authority in civil affairs.
The deified king orpontiff necessarily took the place of the god on earth; Gudea, for instance, at Lagas was the representative of the god Ingurisa, and therefore himself divine.
The Supreme Pontiff was a sovereign prince of the second rank, and was anxious about the balance of power as well as about the propagation of truth.
They regarded those Christian mysteries, of which they were stewards, just as the Augur Cicero and the high Pontiff Caesar regarded the Sibylline books and the pecking of the sacred chickens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pontiff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
