Clement VIII Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 76 [Exhibited under heading: "The Jarves Collection."] Second Annual Exhibition of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, founded as a ...

He is buried in the same chapel as his predecessor, Clement VIII. Pope Clement IX (1600–1669) Statue of Pope Clement IX at his tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore. Credit: Richard Mortel/Flickr.

Tourist hordes go way back. Pilgrims in Rome likely inspired Dante's eighth circle of hell in the 14th century. Read more at ...

Then, in 1601, Pope Clement VIII declared the legend to be untrue, ordering the bust removed and replaced by a definitively male pope, Pope Zachary. The Church officially denies the existence of a ...

At the same time popes, and Catholic policy, had profound consequences for European and global politics: Clement’s successor Paul III excommunicated England’s King Henry VIII, cementing the ...

Pope Clement VII was saying mass at St. Peter’s at that time and had to be whisked away along a special passage connecting the heart of the Vatican to the Castel Sant'Angelo, the longtime ...

In 1271, following the death of Pope Clement IV, the voting process took nearly three years, with reforms enacted after that vote. The shortest conclave ever, according to the Vatican, took place ...

Clement, VIII Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 76 [Exhibited under heading: "The Jarves Collection."] Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Yale School of the Fine Arts, founded as a ...