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vicars of christ
n. (vicar of Christ English)
Usage examples of "vicars of christ".
Frederick, unable to exist without war, joined the crusaders in Asia, that he might exercise that ambition against Mohammed, which he could not gratify against the vicars of Christ.
The Colonna and Ursini still exercised their deadly feuds: the bannerets of Rome asserted and abused the privileges of a republic: the vicars of Christ, who had levied a military force, chastised their rebellion with the gibbet, the sword, and the dagger.
The strip showed the faces of the other six vicars of Christ in their cylinders in a tiny room.