mistress of the vatican.pdf - End Time Deception

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Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross, and follow Me.
—Mark 8:34
Gianbattista was finally reaping the financial profit of
Olimpia’s investment. Traditionally, the king of Spain gave
the pope’s envoy splendid gifts and annual revenues. Moreover,
the pope expected his nuncio to Spain to sell honors and offices
and pocket the money himself, thereby saving the Vatican great expense.
Gianbattista was doing so well financially that he not only paid all
his extravagant expenses in Madrid but sent money back to Olimpia.
There seems to be only one letter written by Olimpia to Gianbattista
that has survived, and she penned it six weeks after hearing the news
that Urban VIII had named him cardinal in pectore. She thanked
Gianbattista for offering to send money to Pamphilio to pay for the
gambling losses of Gualtieri, one of the sons of her uncle Paolo Gualtieri
and Gianbattista’s sister Antonia Pamphili. It seems that Gualtieri
was troublesome, ungrateful, and ran off at the mouth.
Olimpia used numbers for names in case unfriendly eyes should read
her letter. The entire tone is enigmatic, which we can assume was quite
intentional.