mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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Vengeance on the
Barberinis
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Even on the highest throne in the world,
we are still sitting on our ass.
—Michel de Montaigne
Olimpia and Innocent started off their papacy with an
extremely dangerous enemy—Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister
of France. Due to Olimpia’s conclave machinations, the
good cardinal found himself in the unfortunate position of having to
congratulate a pope who had been the only candidate he had expressly
excluded from the papacy.
In a fury, Mazarin fired Ambassador Saint-Chamond, believing incorrectly
that he had taken a bribe to allow Pamphili’s election. He then
punished Cardinal Antonio Barberini’s betrayal by taking away his lucrative
French protectorship and stripping him of all French honors,
incomes, and titles.
Gazing from afar at the new pope and his family, Mazarin realized
that he could not bare his fangs openly and covered them with an oily
professional smile. In November 1644, Mazarin instructed the French
ambassador to Venice, Nicolas de Gremonville, to travel to Rome to