However significant the years during which he was Pope were in the evolution of the Roman Catholic church, Pius himself was more of a passenger than a driver of the engine of history.
Longest, shortest, oldest, youngest and more superlatives from the first two millennia AD. Your task, place them in order by date of occurrence. This is an adopted quiz, original by TeaBrielle.
Pie-IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, was a 19th-century pope. Charles-Théodore Viau was a moustached businessman and landowner. Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire was a fervent Catholic preacher. And François Charles Stanislas Langelier was a career politician. All of them are dead. All of them were men. And all of them are namesakes for the provisional labels attached to future Montreal metro stations on the blue line extension: Pie-IX, Viau, Lacordaire and Langelier. But these monikers likely won't be as tenacious as the white patriarchy these men represent. An STM spokesperson told MTL Blog that the transit company plans to unveil the official names for blue line extension stations in 2023. The organization has also recommitted to including the names of women and nods to "multicultural and Indigenous realities" in its considerations.
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