Pope alexander viii biography of alberta canada

Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Pietro Ottoboni was born in Venice in He was 79 years old when he was elected pope, and he reigned for sixteen months, from October 6, , to February 1, Click here to see his face. Peter's Basilica in a masterful bas relief by Angelo de Rossi, was the highlight of the brief papacy.

Pope Alexander was criticized for restoring nepotism, but a great nephew whom he made a cardinal at the age of twenty-two spent over thirty years after his uncle's death in overseeing the design and sculpture of the tomb. Olszewski, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, , may be read in its entirety online. Olszewski's monograph contains fascinating details about the day of the canonization of the five saints, how St.

Peter's was decorated, and how much wax was used to light the place, pounds.

Although there were antecedents to the doctrine, it was Pope Alexander VI who applied it to the fifteenth-century Atlantic world in a two-part papal bull known.

Olszewski describes the liturgy of the canonization. For each of the new saints, two cardinals presented oblations, "three pairs of essential gifts, although as many as five could be made". He tells of the celebrations Cardinal Ottobonni held each year on February 1, the anniversary of Pope Alexander's death. In , the 15th anniversary, he had to pay scudi to bail his artisans out of jail for a brawl they had gotten into the night before.

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The party that year included a "Symphony and a two-act satirical comedy,. Scarlatti's drama La Statira,. Later that month, Cardinal Ottoboni had his great uncle's cadaver translated from its temporary resting place in St.