“Ecclesiastical dignities should follow virtue, not birth.” -Pope Innocent VI (As quoted by Ludwig von Pastor in his work “The History of the Popes from the Close of the Middle Ages” Vol. 1, pub. 1891., pg. 93, footnote: “See Christophe, ii., 173, for particular details. See also Schwab, 17, and Werunsky, 63.”)
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