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To: MrsEmmaPeel
were kicked out due to a political coup.

Except for Celestine V, who was a very pious man who had been the reforming abbot of an order of hermits before he was elected Pope, in hopes that he would do something to reform the Papacy and the Church (which was, as usual, seriously out of order). It was too much for him and he resigned. He was later canonized for his piety and the work he did for his order.

However, Dante placed him in Hell for having shirked his responsibilities when he was called to assume this burden. The "Great Renunciation," Dante called it, IIRC.

101 posted on 06/04/2004 5:25:17 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Dante did not have the power to put anyone in heaven or hell ;)


115 posted on 06/04/2004 6:09:46 AM PDT by gilliam
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