The Great Events By Famous Historians, volume 07

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The Great Events By Famous Historians, volume 07
Horne Charles Francis
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But it was too late; the mob was thundering at the gates, menacing deathto the cardinals, if they had not immediately a Roman pontiff. Thefeeble defences sounded as if they were shattering down; the tramp ofthe populace was almost heard within the hall. They forced or persuadedthe aged Cardinal of St. Peter's to make a desperate effort to savetheir lives. He appeared at the window, hastily attired in what eitherwas or seemed to be the papal stole and mitre. There was a jubilant andtriumphant cr
...y: "We have a Roman pope, the Cardinal of St. Peter's. Longlive Rome! Long live St. Peter!" The populace became even more franticwith joy than before with wrath. One band hastened to the Cardinal'spalace, and, according to the strange usage, broke in, threw thefurniture into the streets, and sacked it from top to bottom. Thosearound the hall of conclave, aided by the connivance of some of thecardinals' servants within, or by more violent efforts of their own, burst in in all quarters. The supposed pope was surrounded by eageradorers; they were at his feet; they pressed his swollen, gouty handstill he shrieked from pain, and began to protest, in the strongestlanguage, that he was not the pope.

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