Pope Pius VI
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1775 to 1799 · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 1717 to 1799 · aged 81
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Something wrong?The pope who died a prisoner in France. Pius VI's refusal to surrender the Papal States to Revolutionary forces ended with Napoleon's army dragging him across the Alps in 1799, the last pontiff to rule temporal territory until its final collapse.
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Pompeo Batoni - Ritratto di Papa Pio VI (National Gallery of Ireland)
2014-11-05 in Vatican 14
AGAD Pius VI Dyspensa na zawarcie małżeństwa przez alumna Kaczanowskiego Daniela
Arrivo del Sommo Pontefice Pio VI in Grenoble - ove vien fermato in Publica strada dall'affollato, e devoto Popolo... - estampe - L. Scotti inv. & pin. ; Alles.dro Mochetti Sculp. Romae - btv1b6953647n
Arrivée de notre S.t Père le pape en France L'An 1799 - ce spectacle a fait la plus vive sensation... - estampe - non identifié - btv1b69536482
Extrait acte de décès du pape Pie VI
Ferdinand von Hompesch's hat 01 by shakko
Ferdinand von Hompesch's hat 02 by shakkoIn their own words 2
, [We condemn those principles whose] necessary effect [is] to destroy the Catholic religion, and with it, the obedience due to kings.
It is nature herself, therefore, which (decrees) that the usage which each must make of his reason should consist essentially in recognizing his sovereign author. ...
About this person
Born Giovanni Angelo Braschi on Christmas Day 1717, he ascended to the papacy in February 1775 and would hold it for over twenty-four years - the fifth-longest reign in the Church's history. When the French Revolution erupted, Pius condemned both the upheaval and the dismantling of the Church in France. Bonaparte's troops defeated the Papal army in 1796 and occupied the Papal States. Two years later, when Pius refused to renounce his temporal power, the French took him prisoner and hauled him to France. He died eighteen months later in Valence in August 1799, the longest-ruling pope the Papal States would ever see.
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