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  The Wind was too Strong
Pius VI embarked on a large effort to reclaim the marshy plain between the Volsci Mountains (Norma and Cori) and the sea.
Palazzo Braschi, the large palace built near Piazza Navona by the brother-in-law of the pope was confiscated and the coat of arms of Pius VI was taken away and the same occurred to a gigantic coat of arms in Ospedale di S. Spirito.
Pius VI erected three obelisks: in Piazza del Quirinale, in Piazza di Montecitorio and in front of SS.
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  Pope Pius VI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pius VI, né Giovanni Angelo Braschi (December 27, 1717 – August 29, 1799), Pope from 1775 to 1799, was born at Cesena.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution Pius was compelled to see the old Gallican Church suppressed, the pontifical and ecclesiastical possessions in France confiscated, and an effigy of himself burnt by the populace at the Palais Royal.
Pius sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on February 19, 1797; but on December 28 of that year, in a riot created by some Italian and French revolutionists, General Duphot of the French embassy was killed and a new pretext furnished for invasion.
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 Pius, VI Biography / Biography of Pius, VI Biography
Pius VI (1717-1799), who was pope from 1775 to 1799, reigned during one of the most critical periods in the history of the Church.
Pius VI was born Gianangelo Braschi at Cesena, Italy, on Dec. 25, 1717.
Pius VI temporized and attempted to bring about some improvement in the relations between the Church and the French government; however, when an oath of loyalty to the new French constitution was demanded of the clergy, the Pope formally denounced the Civil Constitution and the entire Revolutionary movement on March 10, 1791.
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 Pope Pius VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pius VII, O.S.B., born Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti (August 14, 1740 – August 20, 1823), was Pope from March 14, 1800 to August 20, 1823.
He was crowned Pius VII on March 21, 1800 in a rather unusual coronation, wearing a papier-mâché papal tiara.
Whatever hopes Pius may have had with Napoleon, the Papal States were eventually taken by the French around 1808, and when Napoleon subsequently was excommunicated, he had Pius arrested.
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 Pope Pius VI
Pius VI, given name Giovanni Angelo Braschi, Roman Catholic pope from 1775 to 1799, was born at Cesena, on the 27th of December 1717.
Pius sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on the 19th of February 1797; but on the 28th of December of that year, in a riot created by some Italian and French revolutionists, General Duphot of the French embassy was killed and a new pretext furnished for invasion.
The name of Pius VI is associated with many and often unpopular attempts to revive the splendor of Pope Leo X in the promotion of art and public works -- the words "Munificentia Pii VI.
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Pius VI resolved to go to Vienna; he left Rome on 27 Feb., 1782, and arrived in Vienna on 22 March.
Pius VI refused to accept the bishops that were nominated by the king and, as a result, there were in 1784 thirty vacant sees in the Kingdom of Naples alone, which number had increased to sixty in 1798.
Kirche unter der Regierung Pius VI (Zürich, 1793- 1802), 7 vols.
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 French Revolution Readings #1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Pius VI objected to the violation of canon law and the public scandal that ensued.
Alarmed by the resulting schism, Pope Pius VI promulgated his condemnation of the revolutionary regime, of their anti-Catholic legal innovations, and repudiated all clergy who had complied with the rebellious oath, but especially those bishops who had contributed to the chaos by illicitly ordaining rebel clergy.
Pius VI expressed his special disdain for "Bishop" Alois Alexandre Expilly, who had significantly contributed to the February 24-27, 1791, local reorganizing of French clergy that initiated the schism.
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 Popes Letters. Brief Description
The decree of Pope Pius VI (Pius PP.
The decree of Pope Pius IX (Pius Papa IX) appoints the priest Eugene Bartoli (Eugenius Bartoli) rector of St. Laurence Church of Castagnet (loci Caſtagneto) in the diocese of Mutin (Mutinen(sis) d(iece)ſis) after the death of the previous minister Aloysius Lutti (Aloisius Lutti).
The bulla of Pope Pius IX (Ø 4.5 cm) is affixed to the document with a string of yellow and brown thread (parchment fold-up is 6 cm, 2 slits for the string are spaced 10.5 cm apart).
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 Pope Pius VII
He was created an abbot of his order by his relative Pope Pius VI, who also appointed him Bishop of Tivoli on the 16th of December 1782, and on the 14th of February 1785, because of excellent conduct of office, raised him to the cardinalate and the see of Imola.
At the death of Pius VI the conclave met at Venice on the 30th of November 1799, with the result that Chiaramonti, the candidate of the French cardinal-archbishop Maury, who was most skilfully supported by the secretary of the conclave Ercole Consalvi, was elected pope on the 14th of March 1800.
Pius, who arrived in Rome on the 16th of May 1805, gave to the college of cardinals a rose-colored report of his experiences; but disillusionment was rapid.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pius VI
Pope Pius VI Born at Cesena, 27 December, 1717;
Pius VI resolved to go to Vienna; he left Rome on 27 Feb., 1782, and arrived in Vienna on 22 March.
Pius VI refused to accept the bishops that were
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Fulgens Radiatur: On Saint Benedict (Pius XII, 1947)
Ingravescentibus Malis: On the Rosary (Pius XI, 29 Sep 1937)
Mediator Dei: On the Sacred Liturgy (Pius XII, 1947)
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 Cultural Catholic - Pope Pius VI
Pope Pius VI released some of the Jesuits who were imprisoned by Clement XIV in Catherine the Great's Russia, but he dared not do more because there was widespread disagreement with the Jesuits.
Pope Pius VI was deposed, made a prisoner in exile, and taken to Sienna, then to Florence, and despite Pope Pius VI's illness and frailty, the French pressed on to Turin, Grenoble, and finally Valence where Pope Pius VI died on August 29, 1799.
Pope Pius VI was initially buried in Valences, France but on February 17, 1802 his remains were transferred to Saint Peter’s Basilica where a statue by Canova of Pope Pius VI in a kneeling position was placed in 1822.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Pius VI
Pius VI (1717-1799), pope (1775-1799), whose reign, ending in captivity by the French, marked the low point of the modern papacy.
Paul VI (1897-1978), pope (1963-1978), who presided over most of the Second Vatican Council and guided the Roman Catholic Church during one of its...
Pius XI (1857-1939), pope (1922-1939), who navigated a tortuous path for the Church during the turbulent years before World War II.
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Death of Pope Pius VI, on August 29, at Valence, France as a prisoner and an exile.
POPE PIUS VI Napoleon Bonaparte, at the age of 39, ousted the incompetent and corrupt Directores at Paris in a Coup d’etat and declared himself First Consul of the French Republic.
During the later part of the reign of Pope Pius VII, the prestige of the Papacy was enhanced by the presence in Rome of several European Rulers.
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 Papal Encyclicals on Line [Full Text]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Pius, writing to the bishops of New Granada, decries the persecution to which the Church of that nation is subject, and laments that some clerics have sided with the government.
Pius Pius condemns new laws passed against the Church in Prussia, and encourages the bishops of that country to be subject to civil authority when appropriate, but to obey God before men.
Pius notes the requests from the Catholic world that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception be infallibly defined, and that the conception of Mary receive further honor in the liturgy.
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 Pius VII. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1804, Napoleon forced Pius to come to Paris to consecrate him as emperor, only to demean him at the last minute by taking the crown from the pope’s hands and crowning himself.
Napoleon found Pius intractable when not directly under his influence, and the French eventually took Rome (1808) and the Papal States (1809).
Pius excommunicated the assailants of the Holy See, and Napoleon had him taken prisoner and removed to Fontainebleau.
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Pope Pius IX
The future Pope Pius IX was born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti in Senagallia in the Papal States, the ninth child of a minor count in 1792.
In 1797, Pope Pius VI was forced by the French to accept the virtual destruction of the Papal States, the “patrimony of St. Peter” that the popes had ruled for over a thousand years.
Pius IX had instituted reforms in the government of the Papal States that were promising, and in 1848 he established elected municipal government in Rome.
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Human Rights Rest on Moral Values
One remembers Christ's words to Peter, which parallel what Pope Pius VI experienced that year, 1799: "When you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go" (Jn 21:18).
Pius VI accepted his trial with serenity and prayer, and forgave his enemies at the moment of his death, thereby gaining their admiration.
The pontificate of Pius VI calls to mind the merits of the papacy which, down the centuries, was eager to defend the Church's freedom from the claims of civil powers.
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 PAPAL DECREES: (papal2.htm)
The longest reigning Pontiff outside of Saint Peter himself, Blessed Pope Pius IX was selected the 255th successor of Peter on June 21, 1846 and died on February 7, 1878 - 32 years in which he guided the Barque of Peter through the troubling times of the rise of modernism and the masonic movement.
Pope Saint Pius X was born Joseph Sarto and became the 257th Sovereign Pontiff on August 9, 1903.
Pius followed up his successor's encyclical on the film industry with an even stronger one "Miranda Prorsus" in 1957, a year before he died on October 9, 1958.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Pius VI
Pius was surrounded by attempts to limit the power and influence of the papacy.
The Church in France was driven underground during the persecutions of the Jacobins.
Pius suffered this with diginity, patience and prayer, though he protested against the suppression of religious orders.
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The demise of the Catholic-Jewish historical comission.(probe of Pope Pius XII's inaction during Holocaust)
The hidden encyclical: the contradictions of Catholic anti-Semitism.(recently uncovered 1938 Pope Pius XI proclamation against anti-Semitism and racism)
Pius XII and the Holocaust: Kevin Madigan and critics.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Additions
Biographies of the cardinals created by Pope Pius VI (1775-1799) in the consistories of December 18, 1786 (XIV), January 29, 1787 (XV), April 7, 1788 (XVI), December 15, 1788 (XVII), March 30, 1789 (XVIII), and August 3, 1789 (XIX).
Biographies of the cardinals created by Pope Pius VI (1775-1799) in the consistories of July 12, 1779 (IX), December 11, 1780 (X), December 16, 1782 (XI), and September 20, 1784 (XII).
Biographies of the cardinals created by Pope Pius VI (1775-1799) in the consistories of April 24, 1775 (I), May 29, 1775 (II), July 17, 1775 (III), November 13, 1775 (IV), April 15, 1776 (V), and May 20, 1776 (VI).
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 Portrait of Pius VI
Important personages of his time wished to be portrayed by him and among these was of course Pius VI (pontiff from 1775 to 1799), who contacted Batoni immediately after his papal election.
The Vatican painting which is in a preliminary state is considered to be a study, quite likely from life, for the official portrait of the Pope (now in the Museum of Rome).
In his left hand he holds a sheet of paper on which, in the version of the Museum of Rome, is written "To the Holiness of Our Lord Pope Pius VI for P. Batoni Pinxit 1775".
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Pope Paul VI, whose bullet-shaped tiara is one of the most unusual in design, was the latest pope to wear a triple tiara; although any of his successors could reinstate the coronation ceremony or wear one of the tiaras.
In 1908 Pope Pius X had another lightweight tiara made as he found that the normal tiaras in use were too heavy, while the lightweight ones did not fit comfortably.
As with all previous popes, Pope Paul VI was crowned with a tiara at the papal coronation.
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 Catholic World News : Pope Praises Memory of Pius VI
VATICAN (CWNews.com) -- At ceremonies commemorating the life of Pope Pius VI, participants heard a message in which Pope John Paul II praised that pontiff, and urged French Catholics to "take an active part" in the life of their country, and especially to encourage "recognition of the spiritual and religious dimensions" of life.
Pope John Paul's message alluded to the "unhappy period" in which Pope Pius VI was exiled from Rome by Napoleon Bonaparte.
At that time, Pius VI was more than 80 years old, and seriously ill. He died in exile in Valencia.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Pius VII
Created cardinal by Pope" Pius VI on 14 February 1785.
When Napoleon realized that Pius would not be his puppet, he invaded Italy, taking Rome in 1808 and the Papal States in 1809.
Pius was captured and imprisoned in Fontainebleau, France and Savona, Italy, and forced to sign on to another concordat, which he later disavowed.
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 Pius VI
Pius VI Pius VI, 1717–99, pope (1775–99), an Italian named G. Angelo Braschi, b.
The Roman Theatres in the Age of Pius VI.
The ambassador and the pope: Pius XII, Jacques Maritain and the Jews.
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 POPE PIUS VI - DOCUMENT UNSIGNED 02/09/1797
Angelo Cardinal Braschi became Pope Pius VI in 1775.
Pius condemned this new Gallican church and forbade the clergy to take the oaths.
Pope Pius VI died at the age of 82 at Valence in 1799.
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