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Alexander Pope was born in London on 21 May 1688 during the year of the Glorious Revolution. His father (Alexander Pope, 1646–1717) was a successful linen merchant in the Strand, London. His mother, Edith (née Turner, 1643–1733), was the daughter of William Turner, Esquire, of York. Both parents were Catholics. [3]
Alexander I of Alexandria (Koine Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, Aléxandros) was the 19th Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria. During his patriarchate, he dealt with a number of issues facing the Church in that day.
A proposal was presented to Pope Francis in 2014 and suggested the introduction of the “Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network”, which was finally established in 2015 with a new logo. [ 11 ] On Sunday 8 January 2017, during the Angelus in St Peters Square , Pope Francis used the new name for the first time when he urged the faithful the world ...
Pope's poem was published in 1717 in a small volume titled The Works of Mr Alexander Pope. There were two other accompanying poems, the "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady" and the original version of the "Ode on St Cecilia's Day". Such was the poem's popularity that it was reissued in 1720 along with the retitled "Verses to the memory ...
1493 – Pope Alexander VI allows Spain to colonize the New World with Catholic missions; Christopher Columbus takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the New World; 1494 – First missionaries arrive in Dominican Republic; 1495 – The head of a convent in Seville, Spain, Mercedarian Jorge, makes a trip to the West Indies.
Pope Alexander I (Greek: Αλέξανδρος, died c. 115) was the bishop of Rome from about 108/109 to 116/119 (according to the 2012 Annuario Pontificio). Some believe he suffered martyrdom under the Roman emperor Trajan or Hadrian .
Pope Alexander III (c. 1100/1105 – 30 August 1181), born Roland (Italian: Rolando), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 September 1159 until his death in 1181. A native of Siena , Alexander became pope after a contested election , but had to spend much of his pontificate outside Rome while several rivals ...
The Odyssey of Homer is an English translation of the Odyssey of Homer by British poet Alexander Pope.It was published in five volumes between 1725 and 1726. As with his translation of the Iliad, Pope changed the metre from the dactylic hexameter used by the Homeric Greek text into heroic couplets, rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter.