Pope Francis took one last ride in a Mercedes before death. History of the 'popemobile.' One of the first motorized popemobiles was a black Graham-Paige Type 837, gifted to Pope Pius XI in 1929.

Pope Pius VII was born in Cesena, just 9 miles from the Adriatic Sea in what was then part of the Papal States. (Original Caption) Napoleon and Pope Pius VII at Fountainbloeaus , 1809.

Ernesti refers to the round of cardinals who elected Pope Pius VII in 1800 with a view to an extremely long conclave. They met on December 1, 1799, and did not disperse until March 14, 1800.

The record for shortest time as pope goes to Urban VII, who died of malaria in September 1590 after just 13 days in office. ... who first made the garments for Pope Pius VI.

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 was sold at auction on Sunday outside Paris for 26,360 euros ($30,000), the auctioneer said. French ...

Pope Pius IX, the last of the popes with temporal power over the Papal States, continued a smallpox vaccination campaign begun by Pope Pius VII and offered a small financial reward to those who ...

In 1965, Pope Paul VI ordered the release of some official Vatican records relating to the wartime period after Pius XII had been excoriated in Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play “The Deputy,” which ...

During the 1960’s, Pope Paul VI ordered Vatican researchers to look in the secret archives for evidence to rebut a growing public perception that Pius XII failed to stand up to Hitler.