mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

Eleanor Herman
But there was Olimpia’s fury to deal with. The pope couldn’t go
against that. And there was another problem. Innocent told Saint-Nicolas
that he was afraid of looking stupid, what with Camillo’s putting on
and taking off the red hat in such a ridiculous manner. Camillo was
ready to peevishly throw away the incomparable honor of being a prince
of the Catholic Church, and this would reflect poorly on his uncle, who
set high value on the dignity of the Holy See. Camillo, the pope continued,
had been importuning him for the marriage since August. Afraid
of tarnishing his reputation, the pope inclined against it.
Cardinal Panciroli weighed in on Camillo’s side for two reasons.
First, he was delighted to lose such a millstone around the neck as
Camillo had been while pretending to work in the Vatican. Second,
he enjoyed upsetting Olimpia, who had so interfered with his political
affairs. Hearing of Panciroli’s support for the marriage, Olimpia
marched into the Vatican several times, venting her fury, crying “that
this marriage was an obscenity and that if her son planned to marry
she would approve of no other than Donna Lucrezia Barberini because
in this manner it would firmly stabilize the friendship and
union of the two families.” 8 In response, Panciroli shrugged and
smiled.
Though Camillo had Cardinal Panciroli’s support, he knew that the
pope usually followed Olimpia’s advice. With Olimpia against him,
Camillo needed to bring out the big guns in his defense. His trump
card was Sister Agatha, the pope’s beloved older sister in the Tor de’
Specchi Convent.
A convent, like a harem, keeps its secrets to itself, secrets that die
with the nuns. We know of Sister Agatha only from a few scrawled letters
in the family archives and numerous reports of her tireless efforts to
make peace among her warring relatives. Forgiving, compassionate,
and kind, Sister Agatha was required frequently to intervene among
the fractious Pamphilis. Given her advanced age and the fact that she
was the pope’s sister, she was one of the only nuns to have carte blanche
in coming and going from her convent.
When her desperate nephew begged her to intervene on his behalf,
obediently the little nun went to the Vatican to implore the pope to
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