Sentence examples for great cardinal from inspiring English sources

In January 1630, during the war between Spain and France over the succession to the crown of Mantua, Sachetti's successor, Antonio Cardinal Barberini, sent Mazarin to France to negotiate with the great cardinal de Richelieu.

Just as they were heralding Strawberry as the next Ted Williams, they were already comparing Gooden to the great Cardinal pitcher Bob Gibson, who never hesitated to throw hard and inside.

It was at that time that Tintoretto began to participate in the decoration of the church of the Madonna dell'Orto and the private chapel of the Contarini family contained within it, which in 1563 became the final resting place of the great cardinal Gasparo.

As the system of statecraft gradually became secularized witness the careful policy pursued by France under the great cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII from 1624 to 1642, who was willing to persecute Protestants at home while supporting Protestant powers abroad so too did strategy become more subtle.

That's not to say it's made up; Cavendish, who was a gentleman usher in the great cardinal's entourage, was a first-hand witness and as accurate as he could be.

If I had to choose the best of the lot, I would go with "Down the Drain," the 1975 Blass Profile, as a description of failure; and "Distance," a profile published in 1980 of the great Cardinals starter Bob Gibson.

By all accounts, Pujols is deeply religious, dedicated to charity work and respectful of his elders, especially Stan Musial, the greatest Cardinal of all.

It went relatively unnoticed that Wednesday, the day Pope John Paul II created 44 new cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church, was also the 200th anniversary of the birth of a man many consider the greatest cardinal of modern times.

"The mood is great," said Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, after concluding his own question-and-answer session with several hundred young Catholics.

To christen a being of the new, or Skinnerian, age a newman might be inappropriate: the great English cardinal would turn in his grave.

Orphaned soon after his birth in Brussels, he studied with Pieter Goctkind and Gillis van Coninxloo in Antwerp, learned watercolor painting from his grandmother Mayken Verhulst, and flourished under the patronage of great collector Cardinal Federigo Borromeo in Rome and Milan.