About an hour and a half north of Budapest by car, there’s a little yellow church — the Basilica of Our Lady of the ...

Pope Pius IV (1499 CE- 1565 CE), born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 CE- 1565 CE and was only distantly related to the other Medici Popes. Pope Leo XI (1535 CE–1605 CE), born ...

Every Pope, Ever. The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, ... Clement XI (1700-21) Innocent XII (1691-1700) TomasSereda / iStock. Popes from the 1500s Onwards.

At that moment—when he was three and a half years into his pontificate as Pope Clement VII—Giulio was glad of the 675-year-old Leonine Wall, through which he fled to Castel Sant’Angelo and ...

The lives of the Pope Leos who preceded him may offer insight ... Gregory (16), Benedict (15), Clement (14 ... After becoming pope on April 1, 1605, Leo XI only held the papacy for 26 days—one ...

COMMENTARY: Who the new pope will be is not exactly who he has been — being Leo is different than being Robert, just as being Peter is different than being Simon.

Pope Leo XI, born Alessandro Ottaviano de’ Medici in Italy, was pope in 1605. ... He was not officially declared a saint by the church until the reign of Pope Clement X in1673.