Word: sixtus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yielded to Mars for a consideration. In 1490 a city vicar reported to the Vatican that Rome's prostitutes numbered more than "6,800, not even counting those who live in concubinage and those who, not publicly but in secret, maintain five or six women in their houses." Sixtus V (1585-90) wanted to abolish prostitution, but he was dissuaded by Rome's aldermen, who argued that expulsion of all the city's prostitutes and pimps would cut the population clean in half...
...full complement of cardinals is 70, a figure set in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V to correspond with the 70 elders of Moses...
Depleted College. The Sacred College of Cardinals now has only 42 members, the fewest in a century. Full strength is 70, the number set in 1586 by Pope Sixtus V to commemorate the 70 elders of Moses. But there are always at least half a dozen "vacant hats" so that when a Pope dies his successor may make some immediate appointments...
...greatest liturgical composer who ever lived and one of the musical wonders of the ages was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose lacy counterpoint was the pride of the Vatican under Pope Sixtus V (1585-90). The best U.S. interpreter of Palestrina is an Irish-American named Father William J. Finn, former choirmaster of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, who has behind him nearly 50 years of high musical achievement...
...Pacelli was called to Rome, made a Cardinal and two months later Vatican Secretary of State-the official of whom Sixtus V once wrote: "He must know everything, understand everything -but he must say nothing...