Word: rulerleo
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...incumbent prefect of Rome for guiding the reins of the Pope's horse in procession. Gradually the presentation has become rare until now, when the Rose to Elizabeth is only the second given in the last three pontificates. Only once has the Rose come to an American rulerLeo X sent it to Duke Frederick of Saxony, supplicating him, in vain, not to sustain Devil-seeing Martin Luther in his rebellion against the Roman Church, the rebellion Luther had started when in 1517 he nailed his famed list of denunciations on Wittenberg's church door...
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