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1799: Andrea Serrao, Bishop of Potenza
ExecutedToday.com ^ | February 24, 2018 | Headsman

Posted on 02/24/2024 6:20:35 AM PST by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1799, the Bishop of Potenza was lynched by the faithful. Andrea Serrao English Wikipedia entry | Italian) was a late disciple of the reformist Jansenist movement which tended among many other things to such Enlightenment-friendly notions as liberty of conscience, the reduction of the papal authority, and “regalism” — the doctrine of secular supremacy over ecclesiastical.

According to Owen Chadwick’s The Popes and European Revolution, Serrao as Bishop of the southern Italian city of Potenza.....

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1 posted on 02/24/2024 6:20:35 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Was he vaxed?


2 posted on 02/24/2024 7:35:07 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Is a lynching really an execution? I suppose the guest of honor ends up just as dead either way.


3 posted on 02/24/2024 12:09:56 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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