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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 26, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Aug 05, 2023
	Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Pope Damasus II.	Neha Parwani	May 27, 2009
	Article revised and updated.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 16, 2007
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998