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"Sint licet assumpti juvenes ad pontificatum, Petri annos potuit nemo videre tamen."

January 1, 1970

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This distich of Burio’s represents an unquestionable truth. Pius IX, elected ætatis suæ fifty-four, and Leo XIII, in his sixty-ninth year, have alone exceeded the traditional “twenty-five years” of the Prince of the Apostles; since Benedict XIII, although he survived his election by thirty years, was deposed by the Council of Constance (1415) in the twenty-first of his pontificate. On the other hand, juvenile elections have not been attended by long reigns. Alexander I, chosen at twenty (109 AD)

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This distich of Burio’s represents an unquestionable truth. Pius IX, elected ætatis suæ fifty-four, and Leo XIII, in his sixty-ninth year, have alone exceeded the traditional “twenty-five years” of the Prince of the Apostles; since Benedict XIII, although he survived his election by thirty years, was deposed by the Council of Constance (1415) in the twenty-first of his pontificate. On the other hand, juvenile elections have not been attended by long reigns. Alexander I, chosen at twenty (109 AD)