Papal power struggle
May 13, 2021
2 minutes
n March 1800, following a tense and divisive conclave that dragged on for more than three months, Barnaba Chiaramonti was elected to the papacy, taking the pontifical name of Pius VII. To many who knew him, he seemed modest and unassuming – in the words of the author of this new book, “a meek Italian Benedictine monk”
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