Word: placet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 18, 1870, it seemed as though history was being overdramatic. The skies were fulgurant. Detonations of thunder echoed hollowly and mysteriously through the corridors of St. Peter's. The question of infallibility was put to the Council and 535 voted placet; 2 voted non placet. The dissenters were the Bishop of Little Rock, Ark., and the Bishop of Ajaccio, Corsica (where the first Napoleon was born). The question was put again and 537 voted placet...
...year at jubilee. For that ceremony they arrived in Naples in good time but they reached Rome late by one day to attend the resplendent, the rare Public (Extraordinary Consistory at which five cardinals received their red hats; and late by five days for Cardinal Hayes to add his placet (it pleases! or yes!) to the naming of four of these in Secret (or Ordinary) Consistory...