mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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The Imbecile Cardinals
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The ship of Peter is shaken by the waves, the fisherman’s net
is broke, the serenity of peace turns to clouds.
—Sacred College to Pope Clement V
On average, most Italian noblewomen who survived
childbirth lived to their late fifties or early sixties. Of the many
fatal illnesses that struck women, ovarian cancer was the worst;
it announced itself with a slight pang in the abdomen that gradually
became bone-shattering pain as it slowly ate out the surrounding organs.
Breast cancer was almost as bad. Sometimes doctors sliced breast
tumors off with a knife without benefit of painkiller, but this never
slowed the disease, as the medical profession knew nothing of lymph
nodes spreading invisible cancer cells throughout the body.
As bad as suffering got, suicide was never an option, as it was considered
a direct route to eternal damnation. Far more enviable than any
lingering malady was a fatal bout of dysentery or fever. But best of all
was a massive stroke or heart attack, provided the individual had freshly
confessed her sins.
At the age of fifty-six, taking a frank look at what was probably her
near future, Olimpia decided to build her tomb. It was not an unusual
or macabre plan, this preparation of a grave while one was still healthy.