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Adrian III, Pope Reigned from 17 May 884 to the summer of 885. Born in either Teano or Rome, Italy; died near Modena, Italy. When on his way to an imperial diet he died and was buried in the monastery of Nonantula. His Mass is celebrated in Rome and Modena on 8 July . Fuente: … Continue reading “Adrian III, Pope”

Adrian II, Pope Reigned from 862 to 872. Born c.792 in Rome, Italy. Before receiving minor orders he had married, and his wife and daughter were slain by Eleutherius who had forcefully married the latter. He strove to maintain peace among Charlemagne’s descendants and compelled King Lothair of Lorraine to take back his lawful wife. … Continue reading “Adrian II, Pope”

Adrian I, Pope Reigned from 772 to 795. Founder of the temporal power of the popes; born in Rome, Italy; died there. Elected when the Lombards were threatening to dominate all Italy , he summoned Charlemagne to assist him in averting this catastrophe, and the result of his appeal was the Donation of Charlemagne, for … Continue reading “Adrian I, Pope”

Adrian I Pope, elected in the room of Stephen III, Feb. 9th, 772. He was a man of large mental endowments and great perseverance. and all his powers were studiously devoted to the enlargement of the papal power. Charlemagne, after defeating Desiderius and destroying the rower of the Longobards in Italy in 774, went to … Continue reading “Adrian I”

Adrian Hamsted SEE ADRIANISTS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Adrian Fortescue, Blessed (c.1476-1539) Martyr . Knight of Saint John, one of the Fortescues of Salden, Devonshire, and a relative of Anne Boleyn. He was martyred by Henry VIII . Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Adrian Di Castello an Italian cardinal, was born at Cornetto, in Tuscany, about 1450. Having been sent by pope Boniface VIII as nunicio into Scoilad, he became acquainted in London with Morton, archbishop of Canterbury, at whose recommendation Henry VII appointed him his agent at Rome. He was rewarded with the bishopric of Hereford; and … Continue reading “Adrian Di Castello”

Adrian Dedel Reigned from 9 January 1522 to 14 September 1523 . Born on 2 March 1459 at Utrecht, Nederlands as Adrian Florensz; 14 September 1523 at Rome, Italy. As vice-chancellor of the University of Louvain he advanced arts and sciences. In 1506 he became tutor to Charles V, later Grand Inquisitor, and in 1520 … Continue reading “Adrian Dedel”

Adrian (1) was the last patriarch of all Russia. He had before been metropolitan of Kasan, and had the pain, during his pontificate, of having the patriarchal court fall away from its former eminence, and of seeing it lose successively many of its privileges which the piety of the predecessors of Peter the Great had … Continue reading “Adrian (3)”

Adriaensen, Cornelis a Flemish preacher of the Order of St. Francis, was born at Dort in 1521, and died at Ypres, July 14,1581. He wrote sermons full of invectives against the leaders of the Huguenots in the Low Countries. There are many editions of these sermons, the first of which was published in 1569. Another … Continue reading “Adriaensen, Cornelis”