Roman Catholic Pope. Born Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti, the youngest of six children of Count Scipione and Marchioness Giovanna Coronata Ghini, he was elected Pope on March 14, 1800, following a 14-week conclave. In 1804, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte forced Pius VII to go to Paris to consecrate him as Emperor, only to demean him at the last minute by taking the crown from the Pope's hands and crowning himself. Napoleon found Pius VII intractable when not directly under his influence, and the French eventually took Rome (1808) and the Papal States (1809). Pius VII excommunicated the assailants of the Holy See, and Napoleon had him taken prisoner and removed to Fontainebleau. The Pope was browbeaten into signing a new concordat, which he disavowed after the Battle of Leipzig. In 1814, after Napoleon's downfall, Pius VII returned to Rome in triumph. One of his first acts was to restore the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. The rest of Pius's pontificate was devoted to re-establishing the Church in Europe. On July 7, 1823, Pius VII broke his leg and died on August 20, 1823, from the unhealed wound.
Roman Catholic Pope. Born Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti, the youngest of six children of Count Scipione and Marchioness Giovanna Coronata Ghini, he was elected Pope on March 14, 1800, following a 14-week conclave. In 1804, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte forced Pius VII to go to Paris to consecrate him as Emperor, only to demean him at the last minute by taking the crown from the Pope's hands and crowning himself. Napoleon found Pius VII intractable when not directly under his influence, and the French eventually took Rome (1808) and the Papal States (1809). Pius VII excommunicated the assailants of the Holy See, and Napoleon had him taken prisoner and removed to Fontainebleau. The Pope was browbeaten into signing a new concordat, which he disavowed after the Battle of Leipzig. In 1814, after Napoleon's downfall, Pius VII returned to Rome in triumph. One of his first acts was to restore the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), founded by St. Ignatius Loyola. The rest of Pius's pontificate was devoted to re-establishing the Church in Europe. On July 7, 1823, Pius VII broke his leg and died on August 20, 1823, from the unhealed wound.
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PIO.VII. CLARAMONTIO. CAESENATI. PONTIFICI. MAXIMO.
HERCULES. CARD. CONSALVI ROMANUS. AB. EO. CREATUS.
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