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INNOCENT IX

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INNOCENT IX  . (Giovanni
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Antonio Fachinetti) was
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born in 1519 . He filled the offices of apostolic
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vicar of
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Avignon,
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legate at the
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council of
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Trent,
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nuncio to
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Venice, and
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president of the
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Inquisition . He became
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cardinal in 1583; and under the invalid
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Gregory XIV. assumed almost the entire conduct of affairs . His
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election to the papacy, on the 29th of
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October 1J91, was brought about by
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Philip II., who profited little by it, however, inasmuch as
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Innocent soon succumbed to
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age and feebleness, dying on the 3oth of
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December 1591 . See Ciaconius, Vitae et res gestae summorum Pontiff . Rom . (
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Rome, 1601–1602); Cicarella, continuator of Platina, De Vitis Pontiff . Rom .. (both contemporaries of Innocent);
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Ranke, Popes (Eng. trans.,
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Austin), ii . 233 sq . (all brief accounts) .

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