mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

Eleanor Herman
enters the conclave a pope, leaves it a cardinal.” 16 And indeed, the only
thing predictable about a conclave was its unpredictability.
From the moment voting began on the morning of August 10 to the
end of the month, the Barberinis did everything possible to elect Cardinal
Sacchetti pope. But repeatedly the Spanish cardinal, Albornoz, rose and
cried that His Most Catholic Majesty, King Philip IV, knowing Sacchetti’s
ardent affinity for France, had excluded him. During the meetings held
in between the scrutinies, and in late-night visits to cardinals’ cells, the
Barberinis used every method they knew to get the cardinals to ignore
the exclusion—cajoling, bribing, and threatening—but to no avail.
The Barberinis asked the confessor of the conclave, the Jesuit theologian
Vantino Magnoni, if such an exclusion were legal. With furrowed
brow, the priest nodded, stating that while an exclusion was an interference,
the will of so powerful a monarch as the king of Spain must be
heeded or else evil could befall Christ’s church.
Day after day of fruitless voting passed in the stifling heat. Hygiene
deteriorated. Those locked inside the murky tomb were overwhelmed
by the smells of body odor, urine, and excrement. Even worse, the mosquitoes
began to bite. On August 27 two cardinals and five conclavistas
declared themselves “incommoded,” subject to projectile vomiting, migraines,
diarrhea, and high fever.
Terrified of contagion spreading like wildfire in the enclosed space,
the cardinals shifted uncomfortably. Given the stalemate over Sacchetti,
they would need to elect another candidate if they were to leave the
conclave alive. Some cardinals began to speak of Cardinal Pamphili.
Stern, dignified, learned, with decades of church legal and diplomatic
experience, surely he would make an acceptable pope?
The mosquitoes were on Olimpia’s side. Receiving daily reports of
the cardinals’ discussions and moods from her conclave spies, Olimpia
knew that opinion was moving toward Gianbattista. One day, waiting
in her Piazza Navona palace for news from the Vatican, she received a
sign from the Holy Spirit itself.
Olimpia’s three-year-old granddaughter, Olimpiuccia, saw a white
dove flying through the upstairs corridor. Delighted, the little girl
chased it from room to room until it flew into the bedroom of Cardinal
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