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Pope Alexander VIII
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Pietro Ottoboni, born at Venice, April, 1610; elected 5 October, 1689; died at Rome, 1 February, 1691. He was the son of Marco Ottoboni, chancellor of the Republic of Venice, and a descendant of a noble family of that city. The future pope enjoyed ail that wealth and social position could contribute towards a perfect education. His early studies were made with marked brilliancy at the University of Padua, where, in 1627, he secured the doctorate in canon and civil law. He went to Rome, during the pontificate of Urban VIII (1623-44), and was made governor of Terni, Rieti, and Spoleto. For fourteen years he served as auditor of the Rota. At the request of the Republic this favoured son was made Cardinal by Innocent X (19 February, 1652), and was later given the Bishopric of Brescia, in Venetian territory? where he quietly spent the best years of
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Pope Alexander VIII was the 241st leader of the Catholic Church and the eighth such individual to take the papal name of Alexander.
He ascended to the papacy in 1689, during a period rich in political and religious complexity.
His pontificate, though brief, was notable for its vigorous engagement with the intellectual and artistic movements of the Baroque era, as well as for its efforts to assert the power and influence of the Catholic Church in European affairs.
Life Before the Papacy.
The man who would become Pope Alexander VIII started life as Pietro Vito Ottoboni , the youngest of nine children resulting from the noble union of Vittoria Tornielli and Venice’s grand chancellor Marco Ottoboni. Pietro was a gifted scholar and soon gained accolades while studying canon and civil law at the University of Padua, which he gained doctorates in during the year 1627.
It was during the papacy of Pope Urban VIII that he served in the position of Referendary of the Apostolic Signatura. Ottoboni would later become the governor of Terni, Reiti, Citta di Castello a
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On this day: Pope Alexander VIII
On this day in 1691, Pope Alexander VIII died.
Pietro Ottoboni was born in Venice in 1610. He was 79 years old when he was elected pope, and he reigned for sixteen months, from October 6, 1689, to February 1, 1691.
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Alexander VIII followed the example of three popes who preceded him--Clement X, Gregory XV, and Sixtus IV--by canonizing five saints on one day: Lorenzo Giustiniani, Juan Capistrano, John of God, Paschal Baylon, and Giovanni of San Facondo."
The canonization, portrayed on the Monument to Alexander VIII in St. Peter's Basilica in a masterful bas relief by Angelo de Rossi, was the highlight of the brief papacy.
Pope Alexander was criticized for restoring nepotism, but a great nephew whom he made a cardinal at the age of twenty-two spent over thirty years after his uncle's death in overseeing the design and sculpture of the tomb.
Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII, by Edward J. Olszewski, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 2004, may be read i
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