mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

Eleanor Herman
below the Seven Hills of Rome, Olimpia slipped into the papal palace.
According to one source, “Donna Olimpia goes to the pope always
through the garden, so that no one, not even the butler, knows when she
comes and goes.” 9 Sometimes she sat alone with the pope behind locked
doors for as long as six hours. This nocturnal secrecy led to speculations
of steamy senior sex in the Vatican.
But even if the rumors were true, it would not have been the sex that
upset so many cardinals and diplomats, but the annoying fact that a
woman wielded the power. Moreover, Olimpia was not running a secular
monarchy like France or England; she was running the Papal States
and the Catholic Church, making her position all the more shocking.
The all-male bark of Saint Peter, guided so carefully through the shoals
of fortune for countless centuries, now had a woman at the helm.
By the end of the seventeenth century, with new popes and new
hopes, the scandal of Olimpia, which had gripped all Europe, faded
and disappeared. Long forgotten now is her bittersweet tale of power,
greed, and the glory of God.
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