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    throughout the papal apartments." Pius XII often elevated young priests as bishops, such as Julius Döpfner (35 years) and Karol Wojtyła (later Pope John Paul II...
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    II; Polish: Jan Paweł II; Italian: Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła, Polish: [ˈkarɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔjˈtɨwa]; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was head of...
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    His Late Majesty Charles XII. King of Sweden. London. p. 118. ISBN 9780996455770. OCLC 642660555. Anusik, Zbigniew. Karol XII (in Polish). p. 131. Clodfelter...
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    Alexander Charles Vasa (Polish: Aleksander Karol Waza; 4 November 1614 – 19 November 1634) was the fifth son of King Sigismund III of Poland and his wife...
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    Prince Charles Ferdinand Vasa (Polish: Karol Ferdynand Waza; 13 October 1613 in Warsaw – 9 May 1655 in Wyszków), was a Polish prince, priest, Bishop of...
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    Karol Sidor (July 16, 1901 – October 20, 1953) was a Slovak nationalist politician and journalist. Active from an early age, he was undecided about full...
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    Nazi-era Catholics Popes Pius XI (1922–1939) and Pius XII (1939–1958) led the Catholic Church during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third...
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    Adam Stefan Sapieha (category Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII)
    1923 he was a senator of the Second Polish Republic. In 1946, Pope Pius XII made him a cardinal. Sapieha was born in 1867 in the castle of Krasiczyn...
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    Karl Marx (redirect from Karol Marks)
    Marx and Frederick Engels (International Publishers: New York, 1986) p. xii Karl Marx, Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 35,...
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    Albrecht Władysław Radziwiłł, III ordynat, son of the previous Zygmunt Karol Radziwiłł, IV ordynat, brother of the previous Aleksander Ludwik Radziwiłł...
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  • papabili cardinals who have been elected pope are Eugenio Pacelli (Pius XII), Giovanni Battista Montini (Paul VI), and Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI)...
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    Tardini was considered the closest and most influential advisor of Pope Pius XII. In 1954, Pius named Montini Archbishop of Milan, the largest Italian diocese...
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    resulted in costly wars, which, despite efforts of Jan Zamoyski and Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, were a lost cause (...) The Treaty of Oliwa in 1660 returned...
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    in 1963 in a reinterpretation of the Western Schism, extending Gregory XII's pontificate to 1415 and classifying rival claimants Alexander V and John...
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    Dominik was interned by Nazis. The Vatican had its doubts, but Pope Pius XII on 6 December 1939 agreed to the Nazi demands. His appointment was protested...
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    pharaohs Pschent – Double Crown of Lower & Upper Egypt e.g. Myśliwiec, Karol, Eros on the Nile, Cornell University Press 2004, p.14 Kuhrt, Amélie, The...
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    disastrous defeat at Kircholm against a Polish-Lithuanian army led by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz. Charles IX's revolt against his nephew Sigismund of Poland...
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    Pope John XXIII (category Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII)
    Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-priest of Santa Prisca in addition...
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  • Wodzisław Józef Michalski Juliusz Zając X. Pszczyna Adolf Grajcarek Jóżef Płonka XI. Mikołów Jan Koj Franciszek Fesser XII. Cieszyn Jan Kotas Karol Palarczyk...
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    papacy, e.g. Leo XIII issued a record eleven encyclicals on the rosary, Pius XII invoked the case of ex cathedra papal infallibility to establish a Marian...
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    pathway". KEGG. Pathway Map 00061 US Soil Association standard 50.5.3 Mysels, Karol J. (1949). "Napalm. Mixture of Aluminum Disoaps". Industrial & Engineering...
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  • Maximilian Kolb In the prelude to the Holocaust, Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII preached against racism and war in encyclicals such as Mit brennender Sorge...
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    Karol Józef Wojtyła, chose the same name. He was the first pope to have a Papal inauguration and the last pope to use the Sedia Gestatoria. Karol Wojtyła...
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    that had not had a pope from outside Italy in 455 years: Polish archbishop Karol Wojtyła, who was then elected and would reign as Pope John Paul II for 26...
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    smallpox when he met his brother, Aleksander Karol during their meeting before he left for Italy (Karol died this same year from smallpox). Paweł Piasecki...
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    Karol Bohdanowicz (born 29 November 1864 in Lucyn – died 5 June 1947 in Warsaw) was a Polish geologist, an expert in mining geology and physical geography...
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  • Karol Miarka Liceum (in Polish: I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Karola Miarki) is the oldest lyceum school in Żory. On February 5, 1912, a German men's...
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    Theodor Innitzer (category Pope Pius XII)
    14 October 1938. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Gajewski, Karol Jozef (November 1999). "Nazi Policy and the Catholic Church". Inside the...
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    Catholic Church and Nazi Germany during World War II (category Pope Pius XII and World War II)
    itself facilitated through the support of the Catholic Centre Party. Pius XII became Pope on the eve of war and lobbied world leaders to prevent the outbreak...
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    Stefan Wyszyński (category Cardinals created by Pope Pius XII)
    from 1946 to 1948 He was created a cardinal on 12 January 1953 by Pope Pius XII. As Archbishop of Gniezno, Wyszyński possessed the title, "Primate of Poland"...
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