mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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No one takes this honor upon himself; he must
be called by God.
—Hebrews 5:4
On the fourth day after his death, Urban VIII was laid in a
casket of cypress, which was placed in a lead coffin engraved
with his name, his coat of arms, and the years of his reign. According
to custom, before the coffin was sealed, a scroll listing the dead
pope’s pious deeds was placed at his feet. It is not known when or why
this tradition began. Perhaps it was for the dead pontiff to read to Saint
Peter to convince him to open the pearly gates.
Interestingly, a sack of gold was also placed beside the pope’s corpse,
probably a vestige of the ancient Greco-Roman tradition of putting a
coin on the mouth of the deceased to pay the ferryman to take his soul
over the River Styx. Urban, however, as a Catholic, would have used it
to pay the heavenly gatekeeper if he had remained unconvinced by the
list of pious deeds. Armed with the scroll and the gold to help him on
his journey, Urban was laid to rest in Saint Peter’s Basilica beneath a
magnificent marble effigy of himself in pontifical robes, with his right
arm outstretched in blessing, a black winged skeleton crouched at his