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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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during thewhole of their first audience. On his return to Home, the pope ordered his nephews Fla\aus and Augus-tine to go and perform the exercises of Saint Ignatius at the novitiate ofthe Jesuits, where those exercises had been performed by Saint CharlesBorromeo, also nephew to a pope. Flavins, destined to the ecclesiasticalcareer, prepared liimseK to receive holy orders, and obtained the priesthoodon the 3d of June. Alexander had strongly recommended to his relativesthat they should accept no presents. But as his brother Marius would beput to greater expense by residing at Rome than at Sienna, he thought itright to assist him by making him general of the holy Church, and governor * The life of Ferdinand III. was published in 1027, in folio, by tlie Jesuit, John Pinedal; byHippolytus de Vargas, Ossuna, 1630, in 8vo; by Father Michael Angelo Laurati, Naples, in1680, 4to; by Eanuccio Pico, Rome, 1633; by Francis Boutard, a friend of Bossuet, Paris, 1759,8vo; and by many other authors.
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