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  Pope Pius II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pius II was also engaged in a series of disputes with the Bohemian King and the count of Tyrol, and the crusade for which the congress of Mantua had been convoked made no progress.
Pius II was unaware nearing his end, and his malady probably prompted the feverish impatience with which on June 18, 1464, he assumed the cross and departed for Ancona to conduct the crusade in person.
Pius II was greatly admired as a poet by his contemporaries, but his reputation in belles lettres rests principally upon his Eurialus and Lucretia, which continues to be read to this day, partly from its truth to nature, and partly from the singularity of an erotic novel being written by a Pope.
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 Pope Pius III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pius III, born Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (May 9, 1439 – October 18, 1503), was [Pope]] from September 22 to October 18, 1503.
He was born in Siena, the nephew of Pope Pius II (1458–64) by his sister Laodamia.
In it, Cardinal Piccolomini was, by the not wholly disinterested influence of Cardinal Rovere, elected Pope Pius III on September 22, 1503, his installation taking place on October 8, 1503.
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 ipedia.com: Pope Pius IX Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pius steadfastly refused calls from numerous heads of state including Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, President Ulysses S. Grant of the USA, and Emperor Napoleon III of France to return the child to his parents.
Public disorder grew, with repeated riots, the Prime Minister was murdered (November 15) and the Pope was denounced and trapped by a mob in the Quirinal.
Pius escaped in disguise to Gaeta on November 24, leaving Rome to the radicals and the mob.
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 Pope Alexander VI
He served in the Curia under five popes and acquired much administrative experience, influence and wealth, although no great power; he was economical in his habits; on occasion he displayed great splendour and lived in a fine palace.
Lucrezia had been married to the Spaniard Don Gasparo de Procida[?], but on her father's elevation to the papacy the union was annulled, and in 1493 she was married to Giovanni Sforza[?], lord of Pesaro[?], the ceremony being celebrated at the Vatican with unparalleled magnificence.
The pope was unable to maintain order in his own dominions; the houses of Colonna and Orsini were at open war with each other, but after much fighting they made peace on a basis of alliance against the pope.
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 Cultural Catholic - Pope Julius II
Their purpose was to depose the pope, but Pope Julius II stripped the rebellious cardinals of their rank and the council moved to Milan where they declared Pope Julius II suspended.
Pope Julius II was a true patron of the arts and in effect moved the capital of the Renaissance from Florence to Rome.
With Pope Julius II’s influence, three Renaissance artists left their indelible imprint: Bramante, with his grandiose plan for reconstruction of the Vatican, Raphael, with his frescoes in the palazzo of Pope Nicholas V, and Michelangelo, with his remarkable masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel.
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 Pope Pius III
Pius III, given name Francesco Nanni Todeschini Piccolomini, Roman Catholic Pope from the 22nd of September to the 18th of October 1503, was born at Siena on the 9th of May 1439.
He was employed by subsequent popes in several important legations, as by Paul II at the diet of Regensburg, and by Pope Sixtus IV to secure the restoration of ecclesiastical authority in Umbria.
He bravely opposed the policy of Pope Alexander VI, and was elected pope, amid the disturbances consequent upon the death of the latter, through the interested influence of Cardinal della Rovere, afterwards Pope Julius II, and was crowned on the 8th of October 1503.
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 Articles - Pope Pius IX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Pius IX was crowned on 21 June 1846, and chose Cardinal Gizzi as his secretary of state.
Pius beatified 13 individuals, one in 1847 and 1861, and 11 in 1867: Margaret Colonna (1847), John Leonardi (1861), John Baptist Machado (1867), John Baptist Zola (1867), John Kinsaco (1867), John Yano (1867), John Foyamon (1867), John Maki (1867), John Cochumbuco (1867), John Xoun (1867), John Ivanango (1867), John Montajana (1867), and Thomas Tsugi (1867).
Pius IX had the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy, celebrating his silver jubilee in 1871.
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 Pius II. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He was an opponent of Pope Eugene IV and in 1439 became secretary to Antipope Felix V (Amadeus VIII of Savoy).
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III made him court poet and in 1442 secretary to the chancery in Vienna.
As pope, Pius issued (1460) a bull condemning as heretical the conciliar theory (the doctrine that ultimate authority in the church rested in the general council rather than the pope).
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 Pope Pius III
After the death of Alexander VI, the conclave could not unite on the principal candidates, d'Amboise, Rovere, and Sforza; hence the great majority cast their votes for Piccolomini, who though only sixty-four was, like his uncle, tortured with gout and was prematurely old.
He took the name of Pius III in honour of his uncle, was crowned on 8 Oct., after receiving priestly and episcopal orders.
The strain of the long ceremony was so great that the pope sank under it.
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 Pius, popes --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pius I (pope 140–154?) belonged to the period before Christianity was a tolerated religion.
Pius II (pope 1458–64) was a famous humanist scholar and writer of the Renaissance named Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini.
In 1854 Pius IX issued a bull establishing as a church doctrine the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Consistories of the XVI Century
Pope Pius III was elected on September 22, 1503 and died on October 18, 1503.
Pope Marcellus II was elected on April 9, 1555 and died on April 30, 1555.
Pope Urban VII was elected on September 15, 1590 and died on September 27, 1590.
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 Pius VII on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The pope was browbeaten into signing a new concordat, which he disavowed after the battle of Leipzig.
Napoleon had treated Pius VII with sneering brutality, yet the pope's treatment of the fallen emperor's family was a model of benevolence: he gave them haven at Rome and interceded with the British to lighten Napoleon's treatment.
The Path to a New Pontiff: On the outside, the election of a new Pope is a carefully choreographed ritual steeped in Catholic tradition.
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 THE RENAISSANCE PAPACY
Pope Nicholas also crowned Frederick III Holy Roman Emperor in Rome; Frederick was the last Emperor crowned in the "eternal city." Nicholas' papacy sees a number of "lasts" -- the last antipope, the last imperial coronation, and the last of the Byzantine Empire.
We know Pius for two things, the fact that he served as poet laureate to Frederick III and the fact that he served most of his papacy poking around Italy's old ruins.
Pope Alexander VI left one important accomplishment behind him -- the Bull of Demarcation issued in 1494 which separated Portuguese and Spanish possessions in the new world.
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 The Pope Pius XII Controversy
Pius XII more than once gave proof of his personal courage; but he and his colleagues had serious responsibilities at the head of a worldwide Church with members in all the belligerent countries not to put themselves at undue risk if they could help it.
Pope Pius XII issued his five-point peace plan shortly after his election to the papacy, just as Pope Benedict XV had issued his five-point peace plan during World War I. This was one of the ways the popes believed it was appropriate to speak out.
Pius XII was not merely rationalizing his decision not to speak out forcefully by saying it made things worse; he was referring to a reality that was obvious to those coping at the time with the war and the evils it had brought in its train.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Pius IV
He was so mild in dealing with suspected heretics that the fanatic Benedetto Accolti questioned the pope's orthodoxy, and conspired to assassinate him; the plot was discovered and crushed in 1565.
Pius died soon after, however, of natural causes; Saint Philip Neri and Saint Charles Borromeo were with him at the end.
Pius IV had faults (who is without them?); but they are as nothing compared with his many virtues.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Conclaves by century
Pope Pius III died on October 18, 1503 after a short pontificate of only twenty-seven days.
One of the absentees was the newly elected pope.
III, Saeculum XVI ab anno 1503 Complectens (Monasterii: Sumptibus et Typis Librariae Regensbergianae, [1923]), 45 note 1, states that fifty-one cardinals voted at the election of Gregory.
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 individual artists illustrating boys fashions --Pinturicchio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Figure 1.--This depiction of the coronation of Pope Pius III (1503) by Pinturicchio is notable for the rich display of Renaissance fashion.
Pius was old and not well when elected and his pontificate was only 26 days.
This depiction of the coronation of Pope Pius III (1503) by Pinturicchio is notable for the rich display of Renaissance fashion, including several boys.
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 Appendix C:  Part 1 - Timeline of Events, 753 BCE - 1687   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Gregory VII announces in the Dictatus papae that the Roman Catholic Church is not subject to civil authority in certain matters.
Pope Gregory VII excommunicates the Byzantine Emperor, Alexius.
Pope Pius IV establishes the Congregation of the Index.
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 May 4, 1999 THE HISTORY OF THE MASS AND HOLY MOTHER CHURCH: (may4his.htm)
There is much speculation that had Pius III lived longer he might, just might have been able to avert the growing tempest of revolt that simmered throughout Europe.
Therefore, to ensure the latter did not rise to the highest position in the Church and ruin her totally because he was pure evil, the cardinals wisely chose Cardinal Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini who was actually the nephew of Pope Pius II and therefore the reason Piccolomini chose to become the third Pius.
Pius II's successor Pope Paul II appointed Cardinal Piccolomini cardinal protector of England and legate in Germany.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Pius I
Duchesne, I, 132) says the father of Pius was Rufinus, and makes him a native of Aquileia; this is, however, probably a conjecture of the author, who had heard of Rufinus of Aquileia (end of fourth century).
During the pontificate of Pius the Roman Church was visited by various heretics, who sought to propagate their false doctrine among the faithful of the capital.
cit.) speaks of a decision of this pope to the effect that Jewish converts to Christianity should be admitted and baptized.
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 The Episcopal Lineage of Pope Pius III
Consecrated 1 October 1503 at Rome, Vatican, by Giuliano Cardinal della Rovere, Bishop of Ostia e Velletri, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals, the future Pope Julius II, assisted by Adello Piccolomini, Bishop of Soana, and Francesco Erulli, Bishop of Spoleto.
Although the new Pope had been elected Archbishop of Siena on 6 February 1460, at the time of his election as Pope, 22 September 1503, he was not yet a priest.
Pope Pius III was consecrated by his successor, Giuliano Cardinal della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II.
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 Pope pius - A Righteous Gentile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"The Catholic Church never changes." They believe that there was no pope between the death of Pius XII in 1958 and their election of Pope Pius XIII in 1998.
Pope Pius XII is Catholic Scouting's church-related ministries and vocation Complete requirements for all units in Pope Pius XII Religious Emblem Scout
New Vatican Archival Evidence Vindicates Pope Pius XII By James Bogle.
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 Pius IX --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
The non expedit dramatically emphasized that Pope Pius IX and his successors refused to recognize the newly formed Italian state, which had deprived the papacy of its lands in central Italy.
French troops still guarded the pope's sovereignty, however, and Victor Emmanuel was too intelligent a pupil of Cavour (who had died in 1861) to attack the French and thus perhaps undo all that had been accomplished.
When Leo XIII became pope on Feb. 20, 1878, at the age of 67, his reign was expected to be a brief, transitional one.
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 Pope Pius III: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pope Pius III: Proceedings of the Conclave that led to his election.
A strong guard was posted at all the approaches to Cesare Borgia's apartments, where the Spanish cardinals, creatures of the late Pope, had fled for protection, and where the sick man lay, near to death, but concentrating all his energies on living.
France was most anxious that the Cardinal d'Amboise should be made Pope and had struck a bargain with Cesare to that effect, paying him 20,000 ducats down and 20,000 when he was outside the city.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Julius II
Worked for, and even bribed other cardinals to obtain the election of Pope Innocent VIII in 1484, believing that he could control Innocent from behind the scenes.
A rivalry had developed between him and Rodrigo Borgia, and when Borgia was chosen pope as Alexander VI in 1492, Giuliano moved to Ostia and then to Paris.
Pius died soon after, however, and Giuliano was unanimously chosen 216th pope in the shortest conclave in the history of the papacy.
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At the age of six, she had a vision of Christ as the pope, and then a year later, she took a vow of perpetual virginity.
Catherine died in Rome in 1380 and became the first woman to be canonized by Pope Pius II in 1461.
Pope Pius IX made her the co-patron of Rome in 1866, and Pope Pius XII raised her to co-patron of Italy (with St.Francis) in 1939.
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 ScienceDaily: Pope pius iii   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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