Pope Crowns Amidst Turmoil: Pius VII's Papier-Mâché Tiara
Pius VII was crowned Pope in Venice wearing a papier-mache tiara after French radical forces had driven the papal court from Rome and imprisoned his predecessor. The makeshift coronation symbolized the papacy's lowest modern ebb, yet Pius would later travel to Paris to crown Napoleon Emperor before excommunicating him five years afterward.
March 21, 1800
226 years ago
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temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché
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