25 Frimaire; year XIII; Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon by his Holiness,
Pius VII.' On the next morning, the inhabitants of Rome saw the same balloon soaring above the Vatican, whence it crossed the Campagna, and finally fluttered down into the lake of Bracciano.
Pius VII. was carried away prisoner, blood dropped from it."
"I gave one to the Sultan, who mounted it in his sabre; another to our holy father the Pope, who had it set in his tiara, opposite to one nearly as large, though not so fine, given by the Emperor Napoleon to his predecessor,
Pius VII. I kept the third for myself, and I had it hollowed out, which reduced its value, but rendered it more commodious for the purpose I intended." Every one looked at Monte Cristo with astonishment; he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.
In 1815 Pope
Pius VII granted partial indulgence to the faithful who honor Mary.
During the 19th century, Pope
Pius VII granted indulgence to those who piously prayed before the image of the Black Nazarene.
In 1814, Pope
Pius VII reinstated the Jesuits, and they returned to the country in 1859.
| 1804: Napoleon was crowned Emperor in Paris by Pope
Pius VII. On this day one year later, he defeated Austro-Russian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz.
The early chapters on the tenures of Popes Pius VI and
Pius VII, Leo XII and Pius VIII will be news to many non-specialist readers and they make Collins' case that the papacy at this time was weak and, frankly, lucky to survive the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.
Napoleon famously crowned himself emperor at Notre Dame cathedral in 1804, placing the Roman-style laurel wreath on his own head, even though Pope
Pius VII was there presiding over the coronation.
In March 1829, Pope
Pius VII began his administration with an encyclical that condemned the Protestant Bible societies.
vii + 315 pp.--Dissolved as a religious order by pope Clement in 1773, the Society of Jesus was restored forty-one years later by
Pius VII. At the time of the restoration, the order had only 600 aged members, yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered 17,000 men who were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church's expansion around the world.
as the Napoleonic Wars were winding down, Pope
Pius VII signed the bull
Pius VII - Italian pope from 1800 to 1823 who was humiliated by Napoleon and taken prisoner in 1809; he concluded a concordat with Napoleon and crowned him emperor of France; he returned to Rome in 1814 (1740-1823)