Pope Pius VIII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1829 to 1830 · Italy · Religious Figures · Lived 1761 to 1830 · aged 69
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Something wrong?His papacy lasted twenty months. In that span he saw Catholic emancipation pass in Britain and revolution sweep France, wrote a brief that would shape mixed-faith marriages for generations, then died under circumstances murky enough to seed murder theories.
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About this person
Francesco Saverio Maria Felice Castiglioni was born in November 1761 and became head of the Catholic Church on 31 March 1829. He welcomed the Catholic Emancipation in the United Kingdom that same year, though he accepted the July Revolution that toppled the French monarchy in 1830 with far less enthusiasm. His 1830 brief Litteris altero abhinc set the terms for marriages between Catholics and Protestants: a blessing required guarantees that children would be raised Catholic. He died on 30 November 1830, less than two years after his election, the shortest pontificate of the century and one that ended amid whispers of foul play.
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