Word: debet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between a Frenchman and an Italian:* "Votre Eminence est sans doute archevêque en Italic. Dans quel diocèse?" "Non parlo francese." "In quanam diocesi es archiepiscopus?" "Sum patriarca Venetiae." "Non liqueris gallice? Ergo non es papabilis, siquidem papa debet gallice liqui." "Verum est, Eminentissime Domine. Non sum papabilis. Deo Gratias." The Patriarch of Venice, who spoke no French but in Latin thanked his God that on that account he was not eligible to become Pope (papabile), was Giuseppe Sarto. Few days later he was chosen Pope, taking the name...