Clovis, France, and Rome (La civiltà cattolica: Anno Trigesimoquinto, della serie duodecima, vol. v - 1884)

Text: "After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things." Daniel 7:7,8

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   Nobilissima Gallorum gens, multis in rebus pace bellove praeclare gestis, singularem quamdam sibi comparavit in Ecclesiam catholicam laudem meritorum, quorum nec interitura est gratia, nec gloria consenescet. Institutis christianis, praeeunte rege Clodovaeo, mature susceptis, hoc sane perhonorificum fidei pietatisque testimonium simul et praemium tulit, ut primogenita Ecclesiae filia nominaretur. [...]

[Official translation from the Vatican: The most noble nation of the French, besides many splendid achievements in peace and war, has deserved from the Catholic Church praise for special services, gratitude for which will never die, and the glory of which will never grow old. Having embraced Christianity at the initiative of its King, Clovis, it was rewarded by this most honourable testimony to its faith and piety, the title of eldest daughter of the Church.]

Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Nobilissima Gallorum Gens, February 8, 1884, in...

La civiltà cattolica: Anno Trigesimoquinto, della serie duodecima, [Firenze: Presso Luigi Manuelli, Libraio; Campo: Presso S. Maria, 1884,] vol. v - 1884, p. 513.

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