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Celestine
Title assumed by five popes

Celestine I (422-32); II (1143-44); III (1191-98); IV (1241); and V, Pietro di Morrone (1215-96). The last mentioned was born in Naples and, after a long life of ascetic severities, was reluctantly elected pope in 1294. He resigned his office after five months - 'the great refusal' - for which Dante places him at the entrance of Hell. He was imprisoned by his successor, Boniface VIII. He founded the Celestine Order, and was canonized in 1313.