"Away, away with these things! take them for the Turks! Earthenware will do quite as well for me!"
— Pope Callixtus III

January 1, 1970

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Brief (undated) on his sacrificing his silver plate to finance the crusade against the Ottomans, quoted in Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages, Volume II (1891), p. 387