The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope Blessed Mother A Lutheran pastor from 1972

A Lutheran pastor from 1972 to 2003

and designated

it must once more find God

repeating the solemn words from the mass for the dead…

and a member of the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope Blessed Mother A Lutheran pastor from 1972By Michael de la Bdoyre The Meddlesome Friar and the Wayward Pope tells the story of two men whom the patterns of Providence brought into mortal conflict: Fra Girolamo Savonarola of the Order of Preachers and Pope Alexander VI of the Borgia family. Each representative of certain High Renaissance ideals, they are well known as historical figures yet poorly understood as individuals. For Michael de la Bdoyre, that poor understanding obscures the