Pope Callixtus III, Alphonso de Borgia, was raised to the papal chair in 1455 at a very advanced age. He was feeble and incompetent. The great object of his policy was the excitement of a crusade against the Turks, but he did not find the Christian princes responsive to his call. He died in 1458
from the 9th edition (1876) of an unnamed encyclopedia
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