mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

Eleanor Herman
Usually the family brought to Saint Peter’s the two traditional caskets of
mahogany and bronze, into which the body was reverently placed. The
family then had the corpse carried to its final resting place.
It was known that Innocent had wanted to be buried in the Church
of Saint Agnes. Though it was still a far cry from finished, he could
have been interred in a temporary tomb until the church was completed
and a suitable monument sculpted. But the cardinals had not received any
word from the Pamphilis as to where the pope was to be taken. Worse,
when the funeral broke up, the pope was still lying under the baldachino
on a slab, and no coffins had arrived. The cardinals and other
officials stood around the body awkwardly, not knowing what to do
with it. Had the pope’s family, in their grief, forgotten the coffins?
Naturally, church officials thought first of Olimpia. The pope had
made her a princess, given her several towns, castles, palaces, and art
collections, and she had raked in countless millions of gold scudi in
pensions and bribes. A delegation was dispatched to the Piazza Navona
to call on her. They respectfully asked her when the coffins would arrive
at Saint Peter’s and where she wanted to entomb the body.
But now it was payback time. Looking at the expectant faces of the
burial committee, Olimpia politely replied that she could not afford to
pay for the coffins, being, as she said, only “a poor widow.” 5 They should
ask her son, Prince Camillo, who was the male head of the Pamphili
family and the pope’s heir. She was, after all, just a woman.
Perplexed by this response, the burial committee called on Camillo in
his immense palace on the Corso. Having heard their request, Camillo
stated that his mother had always received much more money from the
pope than he ever had, and even if he was the heir, she should pay for the
burial. They should go back to his mother and ask her again.
Back they went to Olimpia. Seated in her palatial rooms crammed
with valuable furniture, she twittered apologies that she could not afford
to bury the pope, and they must once again ask Camillo. Back they
went to Camillo, who replied that if his mother was too niggardly to
bury the pope, the expenses should be borne by the Vatican treasury,
certainly not by him.
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