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Propaganda

The name given to the “congregation” de propaganda fide, established at Rome by Gregory XV., in 1622, for propagating throughout the world the Roman Catholic religion. Any institution for making religious or political proselytes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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