Benedict XV
(1854–1922)

Pope from September 3, 1914 to January 22, 1922; he succeeded Pope Pius X (1903–14)

Benedict XV

Works

Encyclicals

No. Title (Latin) Title English translation) Subject Date
1.Ad Beatissimi ApostolorumAppealing For Peace1 November 1914
2.Humani Generis RedemptionemOn Preaching the Word of God15 June 1917
3.Quod Iam DiuOn the Future Peace Conference1 December 1918
4.In Hac TantaOn St. Boniface14 May 1919
5.Paterno Iam DiuOn the Children of Central Europe24 November 1919
6.Pacem, Dei Munus PulcherrimumOn Peace and Christian Reconciliation23 May 1920
7.Spiritus ParaclitusOn St. Jerome15 September 1920
8.Principi Apostolorum PetroOn St. Ephram the Syrian5 October 1920
9.Annus Iam PlenusOn Children in Central Europe1 December 1920
10.Sacra PropediemOn the Third Order of St. Francis6 January 1921
11.In Praeclara SummorumOn Dante30 April 1921
12.Fausto Appetente DieOn St. Dominic29 June 1921

Motu proprios

  • Bonum sane (1920)

Works about Benedict XV

  • "Pope Benedict XV," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
  • New York newspaper with the front-page headline "Pope Benedict XV is dead", followed by a later edition headlined "Pope has remarkable recovery."
  • Peters, Walter H. The Life of Benedict XV. 1959. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company.
  • Daughters of St. Paul. "Popes of the Twentieth Century". 1983. Pauline Books and Media
  • Pollard, John F. "The Unknown Pope". 1999. London: Geoffrey Chapman
  • de Dreuzy, Agnes The Holy See and the Emergence of the Modern Middle East:Benedict XV's Diplomacy in Greater Syria (1914-1922) 2016. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016.

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1922, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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