Innocent XI

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Innocent XI (died 1689)

Pope, 1676–89. He withstood the claims of Louis XIV and encouraged John Sobieski, King of Poland, in his campaign against the Turks. He was beatified in 1956. He was born in Como, Italy.

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Seventeen-year-old Angelica is blessed with the voice of a Renee Fleming, but she, unfortunately, lives in Rome in the late 1600s, and Pope Innocent XI decrees that women will not sing in public.

Dines, Carol. The queen's soprano by Marler, Myrna / Kliatt

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