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Encyclical   Listen
noun
Encyclical, Encyclic  n.  An encyclical letter, esp. one from a pope.






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"Encyclical" Quotes from Famous Books



... met Lacordaire at Munich, and during a banquet given in their honour he learnt, privately, that he was condemned. The three friends spent that afternoon in Doellinger's company; and it was after he had left them that Lamennais produced the encyclical and said: Dieu a parle. Montalembert soon returned, attracted as much by Munich art as by religion or literature. The fame of the Bavarian school of Catholic thought spread in France among those who belonged to the wider ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

... time mentioned above, their little daughter Resha was about five years of age. The Papal Maronite Bishop of Beirut made a visit to Nejm's village, Baabda, to dispense indulgences, in accordance with the Pope's Encyclical letter. Nejm was called upon to pay his portion of the sum assessed upon the people, but having been a Protestant fifteen years, he refused to pay it. At the instigation of the priests, his wife was then taken from ...
— The Women of the Arabs • Henry Harris Jessup



Words linked to "Encyclical" :   letter, encyclical letter, distributed



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