Word: gelasius
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...members have been great men, statesmen, diplomats, generals; two were Popes, Gelasius II (Giovanni Caetani 1118-1119), Boniface VIII (Benedetto Caetani 1294-1303). His father held many titles; his mother was an Englishwoman, Ada Wilbraham, niece of the then Lord Derby...
...Testament makes no allusion to the time or place of Mary's death or of her bodily assumption into heaven. Certain apocryphal documents containing stories of her death, condemned by Pope Gelasius in the 4th Century, became the foundation in the 9th Century of the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. The doctrine of the bodily assumption is now extensively believed, and it is this doctrine which Pope Pius XI may promulgate in definite terms...