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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 435
AUTHOR: Pius XI (1857–1939)
QUOTATION: When there is question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.
ATTRIBUTION: Pope PIUS XI, speech to the students of the Mondragone college, May 14, 1929. Unverified but recounted in Robert A. Graham, Vatican Diplomacy, p. 351 (1959).
SUBJECTS: Devil
 


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