Charles Taneo at their head, with the title of Captain of the Sacred College.

The Sacred College of Cardinals is more or less equivalent of a privy council.

The Sacred College of Cardinals is more or less equivalent to a Privy Council.

Is he acting secretly and powerfully on the Sacred College?

We still hope," he added, "that the Sacred College may refuse the investiture.

The Sacred College cannot withstand the Pope's desires.

His old friends of the nobility and of the Sacred College often shake him by the hand.

I assume this same commitment with regard to the Sacred College of Cardinals whenever the See is vacant.

He need not be a member of the Sacred College, but for centuries no outsider has been elected.

All these congregations taken together are called the Sacred College of Cardinals, of which the whole number is seventy.

Here he lived under the patronage of Cardinal Otto-boni, one of the wealthiest and most liberal of the Sacred College.

Unhappily, I am not the only one; you will find nobody here, of the Sacred College, who approves of his doings.

To be sure, Don Ferdinando was sent off to Rome when he was fourteen, and was enrolled in the Sacred College.

On the same day the young cardinal came before the Sacred College, assembled in Consistory, to crave permission to doff the purple.

For the leech had no cause to suspect that the whole of the Sacred College might have found the task beyond its powers.

The next day, at Giuliano's request, the Sacred College ordered the Orsini to leave Rome for the whole time occupied by the Conclave.