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On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope forgave Ağca for the assassination ...
A collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to a beating by a jealous husband (Pope John XII). A number of other popes have died under circumstances that some believe to be murder, but for which definitive evidence has not been found. Martyr popes This list is incomplete ; you can help by ...
As Vatican City is a sacerdotal-monarchical state ruled by the Pope, who is the bishop of Rome and head of the Catholic Church, its laws are influenced by Church teaching. Giovanni Battista Bugatti , executioner of the Papal States between 1796 and 1865, carried out 516 executions (Bugatti pictured offering snuff to a condemned prisoner in ...
Tuesday marks the 59th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Here's a review of the most important moments from that day.
The last pope to not have been in priestly orders at the time of his election to the papacy. 218: 9 January 1522 – 14 September 1523 (1 year, 248 days) Adrian VI HADRIANVS Sextus: Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens 2 March 1459 Utrecht, Bishopric of Utrecht, Holy Roman Empire (now Netherlands) 62 / 64 Motto: Patere et sustine ("Respect and wait") [29]
The papal conclave held on 25 and 26 August 1978 was the first of the two held that year. It was convoked to elect a successor to Paul VI, who had died on 6 August 1978.. After the cardinal electors assembled in Rome, they elected Cardinal Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice, as the new pope on the fourth ba
McLaren's book JFK: The Smoking Gun was based upon Howard Donahue's theory that United States president John F. Kennedy was accidentally shot by a secret service agent in the car behind Kennedy's limousine. [8] McLaren's investigation was a continuation of Bonar Menninger's earlier book about Donahue's theory, Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed ...
The latter, the book claimed, was informed of that episode after the pope's death. [62] The book also revealed that, before the conclave that elected John Paul II , the cardinals had sent a series of written questions to the doctors who had embalmed John Paul I either on 10 or 11 October to check if there had been any signs of traumatic ...