Pope Pius VII
1742 CE–1823 CE · Modern · Cesena
Barnaba Chiaramonti, a Benedictine monk and bishop, was elected in Venetian exile after Pius VI died in French captivity. His reign was dominated by Napoleon. He signed the Concordat of 1801, restoring Catholic worship in France, and traveled to Paris for Napoleon's 1804 coronation—where the emperor crowned himself. Relations soured; Napoleon annexed the Papal States and, after Pius excommunicated the despoilers, held him prisoner from 1809 to 1814. His patient endurance won wide admiration, and his return to Rome marked the papacy's survival of the revolutionary age. With his secretary Consalvi he later sheltered scholars and, notably, members of the fallen Bonaparte family.
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Cesena is a city in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, co-capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. Roman Caesena was a garrison town, and from 754 the city formed part of the papal domains. It prospered under Malatesta rule (1379-1465), when Malatesta Novello built the Malatestiana Library, described as Europe's first public library, and Cesare Borgia made it the capital of his duchy in 1500. Popes Pius VI and Pius VII were born in Cesena, and Pius VIII served as its bishop. The Torah commentator Obadiah Sforno was born in Cesena around 1475.
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