Above: Benedict XIV presents his encyclical Ex Omnibus to the Comte de Stainville Étienne François, later the Duc de Choiseul. 350 years ago, on March 31, 1675, Bologna Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini was born in Bologna. He would later become Pope Benedict XIV, a figure whom Pope Pius XII described as “the greatest of his century, to whom the history of the Church will continue to assign a well…
