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Search Results: "gallican-liberties

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Bos`suet, Jacques Bénigne
Bishop of Meaux, born at Dijon, surnamed the "Eagle of Meaux," of the see of which he became bishop; one of the greatest of French pulpit orators, and
Chæronea
a town in boeotia, where philip of macedon defeated the athenians, and extinguished the liberties of greece.
Confessions of Faith
Are statements of doctrine very similar to Creeds, but usually longer and polemical, as well as didactic; they are in the main, though not exclusively,
Darboy, Georges
archbishop of paris: was a defender of the gallican liberties of the church; had been assiduous in offices of benevolence during the siege of paris; was arrested as a hostage by the communists, and shot (1813-1871).
Gallicanism
the name given to the contention of the gallican church (q. v .).
Hanseatic League
A combination of towns in North-western Germany for the mutual protection of their commerce against the pirates of the Baltic and the mutual defence
Innocent XI.
Succeeded Clement X., is celebrated for his contest with Louis XIV., and as giving occasion thereby to a protest of the Gallican clergy, and a declaration
James II. of England and VII. of Scotland
The son of Charles I., reigned in succession to Charles II. from 1685 to 1688; during the Commonwealth he was a soldier in France and Spain; at the Restoration
Louis Napoleon
III.), nephew of the first emperor, born at Paris, brought up at Augsburg and in Switzerland; became head of the family in 1832; he began a Bonapartist
Schmalkaldic League
a league of the protestant states of germany concluded in 1531 at schmal kalden, prussia, in defence of their religious and civil liberties against the emperor charles v. and the catholic states.
Timoleon
A celebrated general of ancient Greece, born, of a noble family, in Corinth, about 395 B.C.; ardently espoused the cause of the Greeks in Sicily, who
Tribunes
in ancient rome officers elected by the plebs to preserve their liberties and protect them from the tyranny of the aristocratic party, their institution dating from 493 b.c., on the occasion of a civil tumult.
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