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The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation

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The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation - Sweeney, Jon M.
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At the close of the tumultuous Middle Ages, there lived a man who seemed destined from birth to save the world. His name was Peter Morrone, a hermit, a founder of a religious order, and, depending on whom you talk to, a reformer, an instigator, a prophet, a coward, a saint, and possibly the victim of murder. A stroke of fate would, practically overnight, transform this humble servant of God into the most powerful man in the Catholic Church. Half a year later, he would be the only pope in history to abdicate the chair of St. ...

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The Pope Who Quit: A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation 2012, Image Books, New York

ISBN-13: 9780385531894

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