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| In a sign of increased secularization, a couple married in only a civil wedding unexpectedly won a slander suit against the bishop of Prato after he had denounced them as “public concubines.” The outcome spurred Cardinal Lercaro of Bologna to order his cathedral to be dressed in mourning for a month, and church bells tolled throughout the land. | 1 |
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| A constitutional high court, similar to the Supreme Court of the United States, was inaugurated as the nation's supreme judicial body. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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