Papal Collection (page 4)

Papal Messengers
Messengers from pope Della Luna (there were several rival popes at this time) are pilloried by the people of Flanders

Louis XIV & Papal Legate
Cardinal Chigi, on behalf of his Uncle Pope Alexander VII, apologises to Louis XIV for ill-treatment of some French at Rome; the interview takes place in Louis bedroom

Lorenzo Campeggio
LORENZO CAMPEGGIO Italian churchman : papal legate in England, cardinal

French Take Rome - 5
The Capitol is illuminated in honour of the glorious restoration of Rome to papal authority after the defeat of the republicans by the French

French Take Rome - 3
After taking Rome from Garibaldis Republicans, the French commander general Oudinot replaces the papal arms and addresses the people

Papal Palace Attacked
The Papal Palace at Rome is attacked by Republicans

Vicenza Evacuated
Vicenza is evacuated by the papal forces

The Stamp Galop features stamps from Western Australia and Bavaria, India, the Papal States and more - evidence of the passion for philately in the Victorian home

Papal Jubilee Leo XII
Leo XII, a pope of notoriously reactionary views, hosts a Papal Jubilee in Rome : crowds and tourists throng the piazza of St Peter s

Papal Ban at Ancona
Ancona, seeking independence, is placed under a ban by pope Gregorius XVI : newspapers encouraging resistance are smuggled in by balloon

French at Ravenna
The French, claiming Naples, defeat the Holy League of Spanish and Papal forces at Ravenna

Vatican Palace / Rome / C17
The Papal Palace and grounds of the Vatican, showing the new gateway built in 1618, the Library, the Old and New Palaces, courtyards and long passageway. Date: 17th century

French Clergy Harassed
The Constitution Civile du Clerge imposes sweeping changes on the Church, starting with doing away with submission to papal authority

His Holiness Leo XIII
POPE LEO XIII Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaelle Luigi Pecci

Anti-Papal Demo
At Madrid, a demonstration in front of the home of the papal nuncio protests against the concordat arranged by the royalist government

Papal Jubilee / Milcha
He grants to the Milcha the commission of guards to the Santa Porta of St Peters Rome, while it is opened during the papal Jubilee

Papal Jubilee Announced
He proclaims the PAPAL JUBILEE in Saint Peter s, Rome Date: circa 1720

Papal Jubilee / Cardinals
At the start of the Papal Jubilee, he deputes three cardinals to open the gates of San Giovanni Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore and San Paolo, Rome

Papal Jubilee / Closing
He closes the Papal Jubilee by laying the first stone to wall up the Porta Santa of St Peter s, Rome, which will not be opened again until the next Jubilee

Papal Jubilee / Entry
He opens the Jubilee by entering St Peters Rome, carrying a cross, by the Porta Santa (the only time its ever opened), while priests sweep the sill and sing a Te Deum

Papal Rule Reduced
Public opinion favours a reduction of papal rule in Italy

Pius XII Enthroned
Pius XII receives the papal tiara at his enthronement

Pius XI Enthroned
Pius XI is enthroned in Saint Peters : cardinal Billot places the tiara on his head, while 60, 000 spectators watch in wonder

Brigands at Rome
Papal troops capture brigands in the Sezze hills : the political situation, with the pope defying the Italian government, favours lawlessness

Defenders of Rome 2
Bersaglieri in the papal service manning the frontier of the papal states at Maremmo against an expected attack by Garibaldi

Battle of Mentano - 1
The battle of Mentana : the papal forces with French assistance defeat Garibaldi, and he himself is one of the prisoners, though he is soon released

Rome Rail Severed
Papal forces sever the railway line between Rome and Foligno, to hamper the expected attack by Garibaldi and his men

Francesco II Abdicates
Francesco II, king of the two Sicilies, accepts defeat, abdicates, and takes refuge in the Quirinal palace at Rome, still under papal rule thanks to Napoleons intervention

Papal Audience 1898
Pope Leo XIII gives audience to a lady, while a cardinal sits nearby looking rather bored, and another religious person scratches his chin in a puzzled kind of way

Prophecy for 1865
The British Lion - the emperor Napoleon - guns and warships - the papal crown - a coffin - Bismarck whispering to the German emperor - it looks like being an eventful year !

Punch on Napoleon III
Vittorio Emanuele is not best pleased when Napoleon III makes a treaty with Austria at Villafranca which confirms the status quo, crowning Liberty with a papal tiara

Sixtus V (Walker)
POPE SIXTUS V (Felice Perretti) He established the present papal administrative system Date: reigned 1585 - 1590

Pope Pius IX (Letaille)
POPE PIUS IX (Conde Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferreti) Declared papal infallibility in 1869 but quarrelled with the Italian government

Pope Sixtus V
POPE SIXTUS V (Felice Perretti) He established the present papal administrative system

Sixtus V (Dudensing)
POPE SIXTUS V (Felice Perretti) He established the present papal administrative system

Papal Vision
A Pope has a vision of Heaven

1848 / Anti-Papal Protest
Demonstrations in Rome against Pope Pius IX dissociating himself fromthe movement for Italian unification

Papal Jubilee 1865
Pope Pius IX tells cardinals, archbishops and bishops that next year - 1865 - will be a Jubilee Year

Knights Templar 1128
Honorius II gives papal approval to the order

Louis Xiv / Fontainebleau
Cardinal Chigi, on behalf of his Uncle Pope Alexander VII, apologises to Louis XIV for ill-treatment of some French at Rome; the interview takes place in Louis bedroom

1213 / King John & Pope
King John offers his crown, symbolic of the kingdom, to the Papal Legate. He receives it back as a papal fief, promising to pay tribute

Luther Burns Bull 1520
He burns the Papal bull in front of the East gate of Wittemberg

Voting for Pope 1903
Cardinals, sitting in Conclave in the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, Rome, vote for a new pope : they elect Pius X

Voting for New Pope
Cardinals, sitting in Conclave in the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, Rome, vote for a new pope : they elect Pius XII

Papal Election
Cardinals gather in the Vatican, Rome, to take part in the Conclave which will elect the next Pope

Children with their Guy
Children parade their guy through the streets : note its hat - an attempt to mimic the papal tiara, a sign of the surviving anti-papal significance of the tradition

Excesses of Papal Court
A German satire on the excesses of the Papal Court

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