Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had sought to ...

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had sought to ...

Sixtus V (pontificate between 1585 and 1590, the Pope who commissioned the current Apostolic Palace) died in the Quirinal Palace, as did his successors Clement VIII (pontificate between 1592 and ...

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had ...

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had sought ...

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had sought ...

Here are some of the key words and phrases that will be used throughout the interregnum, especially the conclave to elect the ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...