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Benedict XIV, (Prospero Lambertini) (1675–1758)

Pope 1740–58. He was an eminent canonist and devoted to learning and literature. His policy was marked by an attitude of conciliation towards all secular governments. He was lenient towards the Jansenists and friendly towards Protestants and unbelievers, though he repeated the condemnation of freemasonry.

He was archbishop of Bologna, where he was born. It was Benedict XIV who finally fixed the procedure for the canonization of saints.

While permitting the condemnation of Voltaire's works he accepted and acknowledged gracefully the dedication to himself of the latter's Mahomet.
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In the eighteenth century, Prospero Lambertini (later Benedict XIV), in a treatise on the requirements for a doctor of the church, wrote that the candidate had to be outstanding for holiness and distinguised doctrinal teaching; only a pope or general council could make the declaration.
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