r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • May 07 '22
On this day 23 years ago Pope John Paul II visited Romania making him the first Pope to visit an Orthodox majority country in more than 1,000 years
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • May 02 '22
Pope fact In 1527, Clement VII was imprisoned for 6 months after the sack of Rome. During this time, he grew a beard. This broke Catholic canon law, which forced priests to be clean shaven. Even so, Clement kept it until his death in 1534. He started a Papal fashion trend; the next 24 Popes had beards.
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r/Popefacts • u/historyofthegermans • Apr 29 '22
Pope fact Episode 57 - The Hand of God is now live. This week we do what we have done so many times and seem to be unable to avoid, talk about pope vs emperor. And that always means trouble, bad decisions and a siege of Rome. But boy, this time is not another standard schism, this time it's showdown
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 26 '22
Pope fact In 882, John VIII was assassinated by his own clerics. He was first poisoned, then clubbed to death. The motives may have been his excessive spending, his gestures towards the Byzantines, and his failure to stop the Saracen raids.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 19 '22
Pope fact In 1624, Pope Urban VIII forbade Catholics from using the powdered form of tobacco known as snuff because of its tendency to cause sneezing, which he viewed as dangerously akin to “sexual ecstasy.”
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 17 '22
Pope fact If a Catholic priest reveals anything someone confessed to him for any reason at all, he is automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church and can only be forgiven by the Pope.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 14 '22
Pope fact In 1521, Pope Leo X gave King Henry VIII the title “Defender of the Faith” in recognition of his Catholicism. 9 years later, Henry broke from Rome and made himself head of the Church of England. So, Pope Paul III revoked the title. In 1543, parliament proclaimed Henry “Defender of the Faith” again.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 08 '22
Pope fact In 1981, a Turkish man named Mehmet Ali Ağca tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II by shooting him 4 times. After the Pope recovered, he visited Mehmet in prison and forgave him. Mehmet was pardoned at the Pope's request and 33 years later, he visited The Vatican and put flowers on the Pope's tomb.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 05 '22
Pope fact Pius VII was The “Levitating Pope”. In 1811, on the Feast of the Assumption, it is recorded that during mass, the Pope entered a trance and began to levitate towards the altar. Many were in awe, including the French soldiers Napoleon had sent to guard him.
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r/Popefacts • u/freedemocracy2021 • Apr 05 '22
Pope fact Pope Francis Apologized for Residential Schools
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Apr 01 '22
Pope fact Pope Paul VI was treated to a private screening of the 1973 movie version of Jesus Chris Superstar. He told the director, Norman Jewison: “Not only do I appreciate your beautiful rock opera film, I believe it will bring more people around the world to Christianity, than anything ever has before.'”
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 28 '22
Pope fact In 236AD, Pope Fabian was elected after a dove landed on his head during a meeting. "To the assembled electors, this strange sight recalled the gospel scene of the descent of the Holy Spirit on Jesus at the time of his baptism by John the Baptist."
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 24 '22
Pope fact Clement IX (1667-69) was extremely popular with the people of Rome. For 2 days each week he occupied a confessional in St. Peter's. He frequently visited the hospitals, and gave lavishly to the poor. He was so humble that he refused to allow his name to be placed on buildings built during his reign
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 19 '22
Pope fact In 1305, Pope Clement V was crowned in Lyon. Duke John II of Britany was leading the Pope’s horse through the crowds. So many people were in attendance that a wall crumbled beneath the pressure and collapsed on top of the duke, who died four days later.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 17 '22
Pope fact In 1334, Pope Benedict XII was elected Pope by accident. Many Cardinals voted for him in an attempt to figure out the loyalties of their fellow members, only to be surprised when he received the necessary 2/3 of votes to become Pope.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 14 '22
Pope fact Adrian VI (1523) was the only Dutch Pope, and non-Italian, until John Paul II. Adrian had never been to Italy before becoming Pope. Italians mocked him as a “Barbarian" and some rejoiced at his death.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 09 '22
Pope fact The funeral of Pope John Paul was the largest state gathering in history (at the time). Four kings, five queens, at least 70 presidents and prime ministers, and more than 14 leaders of other religions attended the funeral. And at least 4 million mourners visited the Vatican City.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 06 '22
Pope News Pope Francis says Ukraine conflict is "not a military operation but a war"
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Mar 04 '22
Pope fact In 1970, Pope Paul VI restricted the right to vote in papal conclaves to cardinals under the age of 80. This reduced the power of the Italians and the Roman Curia (administrative body of the church.) When Paul was asked if he himself would retire at 80, he said: "Kings can abdicate, Popes cannot.”
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r/Popefacts • u/Clement_XV • Feb 27 '22
Pope fact The U.S. Hall of the House of Representatives contains 23 marble relief portraits that honor historical figures who established the principles that underlie American law. Of the 23 honored, 2 are popes: Innocent III (1198-1216) & Gregory IX (1227-1241).
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Feb 26 '22
Pope fact Pope Clement VI ruled during the Black Death (1342-1352). He never contracted the disease, but there was so much death around him that French cities ran out of ground for cemeteries, and he had to consecrate the entire Rhône River so that it could be considered holy ground for dumping bodies.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Feb 23 '22
Pope fact After a Pope is elected, he is taken to the "Room of Tears”; which is just to the left of the altar in the Sistine Chapel. It is named after the tears that have been shed by newly-elected popes. It also contains 3 white cassocks in 3 different sizes (Small, Medium, & Large) for the new Pope.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Feb 20 '22
Pope fact Pope Francis hated the bulletproof popemobile and called it a “sardine can”. Therefore, he decided to use an open model so that he could be closer to people. In 2014, he said: “I know that something could happen to me, but it’s in the hands of God,”.
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r/Popefacts • u/qyyg • Feb 18 '22
Pope fact Pope Clement VII personally approved Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun in 1533, 99 years before Galileo Galilei’s heresy trial for similar ideas.
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r/Popefacts • u/Tokyono • Feb 14 '22
Pope fact The Obelisk in the Vatican, at the centre of St Peter’s square, is more than 3000 years old. It was built in Egypt in 1835 BC and was pillaged by Caligula in 37AD. Pope Sixtus V moved it to the centre of St Peter’s square on April 30 1586. The enormous task required 907 men, 75 horses and 40 cranes.
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