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Mistress of the Vatican
priests since 1651, was prepared to convert from Lutheranism to Catholicism.
She would abdicate on June 6 in favor of her cousin, Charles
X Gustav, and retire quietly until such time as her pensions and annuities
were firmly fixed by the Swedish government. If she became a
Catholic before receiving her financial settlement, it was feared that the
horrified Lutheran government would make sure she never got a dime.
Her conversion was top secret, known only to the pope, Cardinal
Chigi as secretary of state, and a handful of top Jesuits. Innocent must
have waited with bated breath to see if the queen would, in fact, abdicate;
she had discussed doing so before and had put it off. By July he would
have received word that the abdication had taken place. The restless
queen left her native land and traveled first to Hamburg, then to Brussels
and Antwerp to await her financial settlement. Once the documents
were signed, Christina would publicly convert and move to Rome.
In the seventeenth century, Sweden was a major European power.
The conversion of its Lutheran monarch would be an absolute triumph
for the Catholic Church and almost make up for the humiliating Treaty
of Westphalia. Moreover, Christina’s father, Gustav II Adolphus, had
been one of the most dangerous heretics since Martin Luther; the warrior
king had soundly trounced Catholic forces again and again during
the Thirty Years’ War, paying with his life in the 1632 Battle of Lützen.
When Innocent could finally release the news, it would be the crowning
glory of his papacy and make up for all the awful scandals.
Though Innocent was greatly cheered by Christina’s abdication, his
family problems continued. His three nephews—Camillo, Prince Ludovisi,
and Prince Giustiniani—were at the moment devout supporters
of Spain and were aghast that Innocent was finally planning to receive
a Portuguese ambassador. They made a terrible ruckus, storming into
the pope’s offices at all hours in high dudgeon. Furious, the pope took
away Camillo’s remunerative position as supreme general of the Papal
States and fired Prince Ludovisi from his position as general of the papal
galleys. Then he exiled the bunch of them.
The papal brief decreeing these actions declared that the pope had
been forced to take these measures because of his nephews’ base ingratitude.
A few weeks later, the indefatigable Sister Agatha trundled
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