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In the past it took months, if not years, for a papal legate to travel over the Alps to deliver authoritative Roman decisions.
Other likely candidates are Simon of Brion, the papal legate, and Ranulph of Houblonnire, Tempier's future successor as bishop of Paris.
John Paul II appointed Arinze to be the pontifical legate to other faiths, and to remind us that God is a God of joy.
Improvising hastily, the papal legate Guala is said to have crowned the new king with a chaplet of flowers.
In a dramatic confrontation the governor attempted to murder the emperor's legate but, failing to do so, committed suicide.
A papal legate was someone chosen by the pope to act on his behalf in a certain matter.
Events came to a head in 1208 when a papal legate was assassinated near Carcassonne.
Because of Damian's rhetorical skills and his knowledge of Canon Law, the Pope used him as his legate on several occasions.
As justiciar, archbishop of Canterbury, and papal legate Hubert Walter stood for harmonious co-operation between king and Church.
Henry of Blois, now acting as papal legate, openly went over to the Empress's side and in the summer she was able to enter London.
Indeed, he returned 6 million sestertii seized from Pompey's legate at Corfinum in the first weeks of the war.
He left Rome on 5 July 1463 when Bessarion was appointed as papal legate to the Venetian Republic.
The pope sent a legate, who entered into long negotiations that eventually involved the High Court as well.
Luther was smarter and better prepared than the papal legate had anticipated.
Apart from the traditional magistracies, his only posts were those of imperial legate in Italy, in his case in Etruria and Umbria, where he owned land, and proconsul of Asia.
Before the relics of St Adalbert, the Emperor Otto III and Boleslaw the Brave met in the presence of a legate of the Pope.
The Cardinal of Quebec City was appointed papal legate for the occasion and, as such, could don pontifical vestments.
A number of counts and other lords came with their forces, but the most significant and influential arrival was Cardinal Pelagius, a papal legate.
It was traditional by this time that only this German king could also be crowned Holy Roman Emperor, though this could be done only by the pope or a papal legate.
He went to great lengths to flatter the corrupt Roman legate and convince him that he and his tribe, the Cherusci, were friends and allies of Rome.
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Yet she could sit there, laughing and feasting and trulling it lightly with the legate!
They might be expected in ten days or a fortnight, and could follow the legate to England.
A legate being appointed by the emperor over the conquered countries, Britain became a proconsular province.
The papal legate who arranged the treaty is not to be congratulated on his draftsmanship.
During his absence Hubert visited York both as legate and as justiciar.
Now, Cesare, being a duke, resents a cousin's being a papal legate.
It is certain, however, that Cesarine, the residuary legate of the old man, received from his estate only six hundred francs a year.
Cardinal Caprara, the Pope's legate at Paris, defended himself from the glances of Napoleon by an immense pair of green spectacles.
To this proposal the legate added that Christiern had given his consent.
The legate dwelt in some detail on the misfortunes of the preceding years.
A legate was sent to Charles by the pope, to protest against it.
The matter was examined and the legate ordered the suit to be quashed.
Fearless in his sense of right, the legate towered before him.
The Locrians were laid waste by a legate of Scipio, yet they were not avenged by him, nor was the insolence of the legate punished, owing entirely to his easy nature.
Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake in England for their religious opinions.
The Legate orders Luitolfo to his house, and recommends the patriot to rusticate himself awhile.
After the departure of the Legate, Petrarch retired to his rus in urbe.
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