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Also known as: Benedetto
Odescalchi
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Cardinal-deacon, cardinal-priest, and Bishop of Novara. Pope. Stood
against the meddling in Church affairs by King Louis XIV of France; Louis
tried to get back in papal favor by persecuting Protestants, but Innocent
immediately pleaded for a halt to the abuse. Fought nepotism in Church
bureaucracy, worked to reduce the expenses of the Curia. Encouraged
catechetical instruction. He disapproved of James II's method of
attempting to restore Catholicism in England, but it is not true that he
supported William of Orange against the king. Fought Jansenism, Quietism,
and the heresies promoted by Molinos. He encouraged daily communion,
insisted on a high standard of education in the seminaries, condemned
immodesty in dress, gambling, and laxism in moral theology. Noted for his
simple, pious life both before and after his ascension to the papacy.
Born: 1611 at Como, Italy as Benedetto Odescalchi
Papal Ascension: 21 September 1676
Died: 12 August 1689 at Rome, Italy of natural causes
Beatified: 1956
Canonized: pending
source:
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti61.htm
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