mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

Eleanor Herman
While these two ceremonies went off without a hitch, the others did
not. Over at Saint Paul’s Basilica, when eighty-eight-year-old Cardinal
Marcello Lante arrived to open the holy door, he found it already open.
The masons waiting behind it, unable to see outside, had thought they
heard the cardinal tapping and pulled down the door. Some two hundred
pilgrims were inside the church milling around and gawking at
the decorations.
Seeing the mess that awaited him, Cardinal Lante had the church
cleared out and instructed the masons to pile up the bricks as best they
could. He then ceremonially tapped on the dusty heap, declaring the
church open for pilgrims. The box of medals was already gone, but it
was not in Olimpia’s hands. The dean of the basilica, knowing she
wanted it, had locked it up in Saint Paul’s treasury.
The archpriest of the fourth jubilee church, Saint Mary Major, was
none other than Cardinal Antonio Barberini, but he was still huffing
and puffing in self-imposed exile in France. Cardinal Alderano Cibo
was next in line to perform the ceremony, but Olimpia insisted that her
nephew Cardinal Maidalchini do the honors. She specifically instructed
him to get the medals as quickly as possible and bring them to her.
Upon hearing that Cardinal Maidalchini had been chosen to replace
Antonio Barberini for the job, Cardinal Federico Sforza raced
to the pope to explain that this was a poor choice. The clumsy Cardinal
Maidalchini could not represent the holy Catholic Church at such
a crucial ceremony with thousands of spectators from around the
world, some of them heretics. Another cardinal, Sforza begged, must
do the honors. But the pope had already promised Olimpia. And when he
told her about Sforza’s plea, she had the popular cardinal exiled to his
bishopric on the east coast of Italy.
Cardinal Sforza’s prediction was accurate. The crowds of pilgrims
murmured at the sight of the ungainly pimple-faced boy who seemed
not to know how to hold the holy hammer. Nervous church officials
suggested maybe they should call in another cardinal. But somehow
Maidalchini figured out which end was up and managed to tap on the
door, and the bricks promptly fell.
The young cardinal reached inside to grab the casket of holy medals,
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