Word: gasparrian
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...codified its chaos. Once he might have been Pope. When Benedict XV died (1922), it was said that Gasparri received 28 votes on the first ballot, withdrew in favor of Achille Cardinal Ratti who had become through Gasparri's influence first papal librarian, then cardinal. Climax of the Gasparrian career was the Lateran Treaty with the Italian State, restoring in part the temporal sovereignty and possessions of the Pope, ending the 59-year-long papal "imprisonment." His resignation will probably not take effect before the first anniversary of the treaty's signing, in February...
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