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| | Pope Innocent IX - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | Innocent IX, né Gian Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce (July 22, 1519 - December 30, 1591), who was born to a modest working family in the mountainous comune of Cravegna, in the diocese of Novara, northern Italy, was a canon lawyer, diplomat, and chief administrator during the reign of Pope Gregory XIV. |
 | | The Cardinal, who was archbishop of Avignon, sent Facchinetti there as his ecclesiastical representative and subsequently recalled him to the management of his affairs at Parma, where he was acting governor of the city, from 1556-1558. |
 | | Mindful of the origin of his success, he supported, during his two months' pontificate, the cause of Philip II of Spain and the Catholic League against Henry IV of France in the civil Wars of Religion, where a papal army was in the field. |
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