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knew that by making a six-year-old a prince of the church the pope
would shame the Catholics and make all the heretics laugh. They talked
him out of it.
“He said many kind things to all the cardinals and to each one of
them he recommended with great sentiment Cardinals Cecchino and
Sforza and their families. Almost all the cardinals left, and it was observed
that Sforza left crying and Spada had a face as red as fire.” 13
On the morning of December 27, Dr. Matteo Parision suggested that
Innocent fulfill the other requirement of papal death etiquette—the
distribution of vacant benefices and pensions to cardinals of moderate
means, as well as to deserving court prelates and his own household
servants. Innocent called for his datary and gave him instructions.
That evening, seeing the worried looks on the doctors’ faces, Cardinal
Chigi asked them if the time might be right for the pope to receive
the last rites, and they sadly nodded. Chigi called for the pope’s private
confessor, the Jesuit Father Giovanni Paolo Oliva. When told it was
time, Innocent received the news calmly, according to Cardinal Pallavicino,
and “with admirable readiness and tranquility disposed himself
for the sacraments of penitence and the viaticum.” 14
The pope first confessed, whisking away the last cobwebs of sin
clinging to the corners of his soul. Then he took the viaticum, his final
Eucharist and last spiritual meal for the road. Father Oliva dipped his
thumb in consecrated olive oil and anointed the pope’s eyes, saying, “By
this holy unction, and through his great mercy, may God indulge thee
whatever sins thou hast committed by sight.” 15 He then moved on to the
pope’s ears, lips, nostrils, hands, feet, and groin, asking God to forgive
the sins committed through those body parts.
Olimpia had discreetly slipped away before the last rites, and Cardinal
Chigi hoped that she had gone for good. At such a solemn moment
he believed the dying pope should set his sights on God, not on his reputed
mistress. Looking in the nooks and crannies of the papal apartments,
Chigi could find no trace of Olimpia. Satisfied, he went
downstairs to the papal kitchens.
The exhausted cardinal sat down to his meal. But before he could
plunge a fork into his food, a servant came running up with the unwel-
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