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- The Advocatus Diaboli ("Devil's Advocate") was an official who would critically examine a canonization candidate's life.
- John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to be president of the United States.
- In 2014, Porsche rented out the Sistine Chapel for a charity event.
- The big bang theory was proposed by a monsignor of the Catholic Church, Georges LeMaitre.
- William Tyndale was deemed a heretic for translating the New Testament into modern English.
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Charlemagne
Holy Roman emperor [747?–814]
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Saint John XXIII
pope
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St. Francis of Assisi
Italian saint
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Henry IV
king of France
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Girolamo Savonarola
Italian preacher
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St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
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Jan Hus
Bohemian religious leader
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Mary
queen of Scotland
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James II
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
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John Wycliffe
English theologian
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Clovis I
Merovingian king
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St. Leo IX
pope
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Alessandro Farnese, duke of Parma and Piacenza
regent of The Netherlands
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Innocent IV
pope
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Cornelius Otto Jansen
Flemish theologian
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St. Peter Damian
Italian cardinal
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Mary I
queen of England
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Saint Pius V
pope
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Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
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