Antipope Benedict XIII
Benedict XIII, born Pedro Martínez de Luna y Pérez de Gotor (1328 – 23 May 1423), known as el Papa Luna in Spanish, was an Aragonese nobleman, who is officially considered by the Catholic Church to be an antipope.
Benedict should not be confused with the Roman Pope Benedict XIII, who reigned from 27 May 1724 to 21 February 1730.
The Spanish saying seguir en sus trece ("to stay in his/her thirteen"), meaning a stubborn behavior, refers to the obstinacy of Benedict and the numeral he adopted.
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“... it is a commonplace that men like war. For peace, in our society, with the feeling we have then that it is feeble-minded to strive except for one’s own private profit, is a lonely thing and a hazardous business. Over and over men have proved that they prefer the hazards of war with all its suffering. It has its compensations.”
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