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People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community.
Pope Leo XIII
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Pope Leo XIII
Age: 93 †
Born: 1810
Born: March 2
Died: 1903
Died: July 20
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Roman Catholic Priest
Pope Leo XIII
Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci
Leo PP. XIII
Pope Léon XIII
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Gioacchino Vincenzo Pecci
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