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    Pope Pius II (Latin: Pius PP. II, Italian: Pio II), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (Latin: Aeneas Silvius Bartholomeus; 18 October 1405 – 14 August...
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    Pope Pius III (Italian: Pio III, Latin: Pius Tertius; 9 May 1439 – 18 October 1503), born Francesco Todeschini, then Francesco Todeschini-Piccolomini...
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    Paul II in 1990 and Benedict XVI declared Pius XII Venerable on 19 December 2009. Pacelli remains the last pope to take the regnal name of Pius to the...
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    Stephen Tomašević made an alliance with the Hungarians and asked Pope Pius II for help in the face of an impending Ottoman invasion. In 1463, after a...
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  • Pope Pius may refer to: Pope Pius I (c. 140–154; officially listed as 142/146 – 157/161) Pope Pius II (1458–1464) Pope Pius III (1503) Pope Pius IV (1559–1565)...
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    under Pius II. Barbo had a marked propensity to enjoy dressing up in sumptuous ecclesiastical finery. Barbo was elected to succeed Pope Pius II by the...
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    1464 papal conclave (category Pope Paul II)
    convened after the death of Pope Pius II, elected as his successor cardinal Pietro Barbo, who took the name Paul II. Pope Pius II died on August 14, 1464, in...
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  • XIV and Pius VI 1825: Leo XII 1875: Pius IX (without great solemnity) 1900: Leo XIII 1925: Pius XI 1950: Pius XII 1975: Paul VI 2000: John Paul II 2025:...
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    Pope Pius II (r. 1458–1464) created thirteen new cardinals in three consistories: Angelo Capranica, bishop of Rieti – cardinal priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme...
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  • Pope Marcellus II did not canonize any saints. Pope Paul IV did not canonize any saints. Pope Pius IV did not canonize any saints. Pope Pius V canonized...
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    expedition against John II of Anjou (r. 1453–1470). In 1463, he was earmarked to be the chief commander of the crusading forces of Pope Pius II, but the Pope died...
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    amantibus) (1444) is a novel by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II. It is one of the earliest examples of an epistolary novel, full of erotic...
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    in Wallachia. To provide an explanation for Vlad's imprisonment to Pope Pius II and the Venetians (who had sent money to finance a campaign against the...
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    October 2011.[self-published source] Weber, Nicholas Aloysius (1911). "Pope Pius II" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York:...
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    son pontificat. Vol I, II. Paris Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pius IX. Wikisource has original works by or about: Pius IX Wikiquote has quotations...
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    a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church during the reigns of Popes Pius II, Paul II and Sixtus IV. Born in Mantua on 15 March 1444, Francesco Gonzaga was...
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    Hans-Adam II (Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d'Aviano Pius; born 14 February 1945) is the Prince of Liechtenstein. He is the son of Prince...
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  • subsequent Fourth Anti-Hussite Crusade. Crusade of Pius II. The Crusade of Pius II (1464). At age 60, Pius II took the cross in 1464 and departed for Ancona...
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    amongst the humanists and churchmen of that era: Crusade or dialogue. Pope Pius II strongly advocated for another Crusade, while the German Nicholas of Cusa...
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    elected as his successor Cardinal Enea Silvio Piccolomini who took the name Pius II. Pope Callixtus III, the first pope of the House of Borgia, died on August...
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    wretched. Several centuries later the legend was claimed as fact by Pope Pius II, who himself also walked ten miles barefoot in the ice and snow as an act...
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    Thomas travelled to Rome, where he was received and provided for by Pope Pius II. His hopes of retaking the Morea never materialized and he died in Rome...
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    decision making. The Italian humanist Enea Silvio Piccolomini, later Pope Pius II, who at one time worked at Frederick's court, described the Emperor as...
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    II, III, IV, V, VI, Pope Pius I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII) 16 from France (Pope Sylvester II, Pope Stephen IX, Pope Nicholas II,...
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    V. Pius V died on 1 May 1572. Pius V suffered from bladder stones, a condition for which he was unwilling to have an operation. Additionally, Pius V fasted...
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    Breviary by Pope Pius X St. Pius X Seminary, Philippines Pope Pius X, patron saint archive Pius X High School, Nebraska, United States Pius X High School...
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    Vatican City pursued a policy of neutrality during World War II under the leadership of Pope Pius XII. Although the city of Rome was occupied by Germany from...
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    decree of 13 April 1866, Pope Pius IX declared Catherine of Siena to be a co-patroness of Rome. On 18 June 1939 Pope Pius XII named her a joint patron...
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    book written by Niccolò Machiavelli, where he describes the reign of Pope Pius II, who had allied himself with the Venetians and Prince Vlad Dracula, to...
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  • published in full until 1940. 1442 – Enea Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II, arrives at the court of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, in Vienna,...
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