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Showing posts with label Pope Gregory XI. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Pope Gregory XI. Show all posts

29 May 2025

Baldassare Cossa – Antipope

The colourful career of a pirate who became a pope A 1713 depiction of John XXIII by French printmaker Bernard Picart Baldassare Cossa, who ...

25 March 2021

Saint Catherine of Siena

Pious woman from ordinary family helped the Pope reorganise the church Tiepolo's 1746 painting of St Catherine, in the Kunsthistorische...

20 September 2018

Election of Pope Clement VII

Appointment that sparked split in Catholic Church Pope Clement VII, a portrait by the 19th century French painter Henri Serrur The e...

28 April 2018

Baldus de Ubaldis – lawyer

Legal opinions have stood the test of time Baldus de Ubaldis wrote more than 3,000 legal opinions during his career An expert in medi...

17 January 2018

Pope Gregory XI returns the papacy to Rome

Important date in Roman and papal history Pope Gregory XI was the last French pope and the last to rule from Avignon The French P...

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