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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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VAT'ICAN, n. In Rome, the celebrated church of St. Peter; and also, a magnificent palace of the pope; situated at the foot of one of the seven hills on which Rome was built. Hence the phrase, the thunders of the Vatican, meaning the anathemas or denunciations of the pope.
A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near
the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library,
a famous chapel, etc.
* The word is often used to indicate the papal authority. Thunders of the Vatican, the anathemas, or denunciations, of the pope. | ||||||||