Pope Clement XII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740 · Religious Figures · Lived 1652 to 1740 · aged 87
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Something wrong?He condemned Freemasonry before most of the world knew what it was, and spent the Church's money on fountains and marble when Rome still looked medieval.
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Agostino Masucci - Portrait of Pope Clement XII, seated
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Lorenzo Corsini became Pope Clement XII in July 1730, already seventy-eight and nearly blind. He ran the papal treasury carefully enough to pile up a surplus, then turned it loose on the city: commissioning the new façade of Saint John Lateran, launching construction of the Trevi Fountain, buying Cardinal Albani's trove of ancient sculptures for the Vatican collection. In 1738 he issued In eminenti apostolatus, the first papal bull condemning Freemasonry - a secret society most Catholics had never heard of. He died in February 1740, having redecorated Rome and drawn a line the Church would hold for centuries.
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