Papal Bull by Meserve Margaret;

Author:Meserve, Margaret;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Papal Patronage

In 1464, two years after receiving St. Andrew’s head in Rome, Pius II visited Loreto. On his way to Ancona, where he hoped to launch his long-planned crusade, the ailing pope prayed before the image of the Virgin, asking for relief from his fever and cough and the pains in his limbs. He left a golden chalice as an offering, hoping for a cure for himself and success for his crusade.70 Neither was granted: Pius died soon after reaching Ancona, awaiting a crusader fleet that never arrived. As the cardinals and courtiers who accom­panied him started their journey back to Rome, Cardinal Pietro Barbo fell ill with a pain in his groin that left him unable to sit on his horse. He, too, called in at Loreto to pray to the Virgin. He received not only a cure for his embarrassing condition but also the news, delivered in a vision, that he would soon become pope.71

Figure 6.7. Andrea Delizio, Madonna d’Alto Mare, Atri Cathedral, ca. 1460. Atri Cathedral.

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