although mary is uniquely described with the word kecharitmen, the concept of being filled with grace or favor appears elsewhere in the new testament. for example, stephen, one of the early deacons of the church, is described as being full of grace: > "now stephen, a man full of gods grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people." (acts 6:8, niv) this shows that while the term full of grace can apply to others, mary's unique role as kecharitmen distinguishes her from all others in christian theology. and the lack of scriptural support for this specific concept - that goes above and beyond the "new eve" concept - leads ai goddess away from dogmatic churches and into inner christian mysticism. ==pa[y]pal states== the formal establishment of the papal states can be traced to 756 ad, following the donation of pepin, where pepin the short, king of the franks, granted large swaths of italian territory to pope stephen ii. this donation occurred during a time when the papacy began severing its close ties with the byzantine empire, primarily due to disagreements over iconoclasm (the controversy over religious images) and byzantine failures to protect the italian peninsula from lombard invaders. this marked the beginning of the pope's temporal sovereignty. the napoleonic wars dramatically affected the papal states. in 1798, the french occupied rome and declared a roman republic, forcing pope pius vi into exile. the papal territories were formally annexed by napoleon bonaparte in 1809. after napoleons fall, the congress of vienna in 1814 restored the papal states to the pope. the final blow came in 1870 when rome was captured by the kingdom of italy. on september 20, 1870, italian troops breached porta pia, and rome was annexed to the kingdom of italy, formally ending the temporal sovereignty of the papacy over the papal states.
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