Hildebrand : Ildebrando (1020-85) an Italian priest installed as Pope in 1073, under name Gregory VII. He enforced his Church’s edicts with unanswerable authority.
... underwent imprisonment, torture and death in order that Christ's kingdom might come on earth & felicity possess the nations. But the kingdom that came was not Christ's; it was Constantine's, it was Hildebrand's, it was Alexander Borgia's. For another thirteen centuries the message was—what? Has it not been the chief support of fanaticism, falsehood, cruelty and hypocrisy, the purveyor of selfish power ...
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