mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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Pope Alexander VII
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Malice sucks up the greater part
of her own venom, and poisons herself.
—Michel de Montaigne
Every family of a freshly deceased pope teetered on the
brink of ruin at the conclave, and the Pamphilis were no exception.
Everything Olimpia had worked for over the previous
forty years could be snatched from her in an instant if the wrong cardinal
were elected pope.
On January 18, 1655, sixty-six cardinals solemnly entered the Sistine
Chapel. In his last creation of 1654, Innocent had filled the college up to
its limit of seventy. In the meantime one had died, two elderly cardinals
living in Spain didn’t want to budge, and Cardinal Mazarin remained
in Paris running the country for the king and sleeping with the queen
mother.
In the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, as vice deacon
of the Sacred College, started off the proceedings by singing the Mass of
the Holy Spirit. The conclave remained open for foreign ambassadors
throughout that day and all the next. For several months, the Spanish
and French ambassadors had been sitting on instructions from their
kings as to which cardinals to exclude in conclave and which to support.