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Show Englishman on Papal Throne. Pope Adrian IV was by birth an Englishman, and the only one of that nation who ever occupied the papal chair. He was a native of Lnngley, near St. Albans, in Hertfordshire. He was born before A. D. 1100, his real name being Nicholas Breakspear. He was said to have left England as a beggar, and to have become a servant serv-ant or lay brother In a monastery near Avignon, In France. Here he studied with such diligence that he was elected elect-ed abbot in 1137. He was made cardinal car-dinal bishop of Alba In 1140, and went to Denmark and Norway. Upon his return to Rome Nicholas was unanimously unani-mously chosen pope agVlnst his own Inclination, In November, i54, holding hold-ing that post until his death l An' agnl, September 1, 1159. |