CAGLIOSTRO AND THE NECKLACE AFFAIR

of the world. After the founding of his Egyptian Lodge, in Rome, Cagliostro was arrestedby the pontifical police on September 27, 1789, and was tried for his crimes perpetratedunder free-masonic cover. His trial lasted eighteen months, at the end of which, he wascondemned to death under the January 14, 1739 Anti-Masonic Bulle of Pope ClementVII. But a more lenient Pope Benoit XIV commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.Cagliostro died a few years later in his jail cell.FIN12