Pope Gregory XII
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Pope Gregory XII ( 1326 – 18 October 1417), The Fourth Pope To Resign.
Pope Gregory XII ( 1326 – 18 October 1417), born Angelo Correr or Corraro, was Pope from 1406 toresign, Gregory XII stepped down in 1415 to help end a church schism.The remainder of Gregory XII's life 1415. He succeeded Pope Innocent VII on 30 November 1406.Pope Gregory XII: The last pope to resign spent his retirement in peaceful obscurity in Ancona. He was the last pope to voluntarily abdicate until Benedict XVI in 2013.
Pope Gregory XII
Pope Saint Celestine V (1215 – 19 May 1296) : The Third Pope To Resign.
Pope Saint Celestine V (1215 – 19 May 1296).
Pietro Angelerio was born to Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in Sant'Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia (Sicily). After his father's death he began working in the fields. From the time he was a child, he showed great intelligence and love for others. At the age of 17 he became a Benedictine monk at Faifoli in Benevento and showed an extraordinary disposition toward asceticism and solitude.In1239 he retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morrone, hence his name. Five years later he left this retreat, and went with two companions to a similar cave on the Mountain of Maiella in the Abruzzi region of central Italy, where he lived according to the example of St. John the Baptist.In 1244 Pietro Angelerio founded,the order of the Celestines.
After the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone." The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca's decision. When sent for, Morrone obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the kings of Naples and Hungary. Elected on 5 July 1294 at age 79, he was crowned at Santa Maria di Collemaggio in the city of Aquila in the Abruzzo on 29 August, taking the name of Celestine V.
Pope Saint Celestine V
Pope Saint Celestine V issued two decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope and the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294. In the formal instrument of renunciation he recited as the causes moving him to the step, "the desire for humility, for a purer life, for a stainless conscience, the deficiencies of his own physical strength, his ignorance, the perverseness of the people, his longing for the tranquility of his former life".Having divested himself of every outward symbol of papal dignity, he retired to his old solitude.Pope Celestine V had become overwhelmed by the demands of the papal office, Pope Celestine V ,a hermetic pontiff stepped down after five months as pope.
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056) : The Second Pope To Resign
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056),
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056), born in Rome as Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048.One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy which he sold to his godfather Gregory VI and resigned in 1045.Benedict was born the son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, and was a nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX. His father obtained the Papal chair for him, granting it to his son in October 1032.Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made Pope.He had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family, although in terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely unorthodox. He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as "feasting on immorality"The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "a disgrace to the Chair of Peter."
Pope Marcellinus the First Pope to Resign
Pope Marcellinus became bishop of Rome on 30 June 296; after Pope St Caius who was was Pope from 17 December 283 to 22 April 296.Pope Marcellinus papacy ended on thwe 1st April 304.His feast day is on the 26th April and he was given Sainthood.
Marcellinus’ pontificate began at a time when Diocletian was Roman Emperor, but before his persecution of the Christians. During Diocletian's persecution Marcellinus was called upon to sacrifice, and terrorised complied with the Roman emperor's order to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods and offered incense to idols, but that, repenting shortly afterwards, he confessed the faith of Christ Marcellinus after his fall presented himself before a council, which refused to try him on the ground that prima sedes a nemine iudicatur. Marcellinus suffered martyrdom and was buried, on the 26th of April 304, in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom.
Pope Benedict XVI Resigns : Full Text of Statement: Previous Popes Who Have Resigned From The Church
The Vatican announced today ,11th January 2013,that Pope Benedict XVI is stepping down on Febuary 28th 2013. While such papal resignations are extremely rare, there are precedents in the two millennia history of the Catholic Church.
Pope Benedict XVI stated that because of his advanced age and diminishing strength, he did not feel he could carry on the job. The Code of Canon Law 332-2 states : "If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns His office it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested but not that it is accepted by anyone."
Pope Marcellinus became bishop of Rome on 30 June 296; after Pope St Caius who was was Pope from 17 December 283 to 22 April 296.Pope Marcellinus papacy ended on thwe 1st April 304.His feast day is on the 26th April and he was given Sainthood.
Marcellinus’ pontificate began at a time when Diocletian was Roman Emperor, but before his persecution of the Christians. During Diocletian's persecution Marcellinus was called upon to sacrifice, and terrorised complied with the Roman emperor's order to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods and offered incense to idols, but that, repenting shortly afterwards, he confessed the faith of Christ Marcellinus after his fall presented himself before a council, which refused to try him on the ground that prima sedes a nemine iudicatur. Marcellinus suffered martyrdom and was buried, on the 26th of April 304, in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom.
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056),
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056), born in Rome as Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048.One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy which he sold to his godfather Gregory VI and resigned in 1045.Benedict was born the son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, and was a nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX. His father obtained the Papal chair for him, granting it to his son in October 1032.Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made Pope.He had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family, although in terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely unorthodox. He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as "feasting on immorality"The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "a disgrace to the Chair of Peter."
Pope Saint Celestine V (1215 – 19 May 1296).
Pietro Angelerio was born to Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in Sant'Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia (Sicily). After his father's death he began working in the fields. From the time he was a child, he showed great intelligence and love for others. At the age of 17 he became a Benedictine monk at Faifoli in Benevento and showed an extraordinary disposition toward asceticism and solitude.In1239 he retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morrone, hence his name. Five years later he left this retreat, and went with two companions to a similar cave on the Mountain of Maiella in the Abruzzi region of central Italy, where he lived according to the example of St. John the Baptist.In 1244 Pietro Angelerio founded,the order of the Celestines.
After the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone." The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca's decision. When sent for, Morrone obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the kings of Naples and Hungary. Elected on 5 July 1294 at age 79, he was crowned at Santa Maria di Collemaggio in the city of Aquila in the Abruzzo on 29 August, taking the name of Celestine V.
Pope Saint Celestine V
Pope Saint Celestine V issued two decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope and the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294. In the formal instrument of renunciation he recited as the causes moving him to the step, "the desire for humility, for a purer life, for a stainless conscience, the deficiencies of his own physical strength, his ignorance, the perverseness of the people, his longing for the tranquility of his former life".Having divested himself of every outward symbol of papal dignity, he retired to his old solitude.Pope Celestine V had become overwhelmed by the demands of the papal office, Pope Celestine V ,a hermetic pontiff stepped down after five months as pope.
Pope Gregory XII ( 1326 – 18 October 1417), born Angelo Correr or Corraro, was Pope from 1406 to 1415. He succeeded Pope Innocent VII on 30 November 1406.Pope Gregory XII: The last pope to resign, Gregory XII stepped down in 1415 to help end a church schism.The remainder of Gregory XII's life was spent in peaceful obscurity in Ancona. He was the last pope to voluntarily abdicate until Benedict XVI in 2013.
Pope Gregory XII
Monday 11 February 2013
Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation. Here is the full text of his statement from the Vatican
" Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonisations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church.
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering.
However, in today's world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to steer the ship of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognise my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me.
For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.
And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff.
With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer. "
Pope Benedict XVI Resigns : Previous Popes Who Have Resigned From The Church
Pope Benedict XVI stated that because of his advanced age and diminishing strength, he did not feel he could carry on the job. The Code of Canon Law 332-2 states : "If it happens that the Roman Pontiff resigns His office it is required for validity that the resignation is made freely and properly manifested but not that it is accepted by anyone."
Pope Marcellinus
Pope Marcellinus became bishop of Rome on 30 June 296; after Pope St Caius who was was Pope from 17 December 283 to 22 April 296.Pope Marcellinus papacy ended on thwe 1st April 304.His feast day is on the 26th April and he was given Sainthood.
Marcellinus’ pontificate began at a time when Diocletian was Roman Emperor, but before his persecution of the Christians. During Diocletian's persecution Marcellinus was called upon to sacrifice, and terrorised complied with the Roman emperor's order to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods and offered incense to idols, but that, repenting shortly afterwards, he confessed the faith of Christ Marcellinus after his fall presented himself before a council, which refused to try him on the ground that prima sedes a nemine iudicatur. Marcellinus suffered martyrdom and was buried, on the 26th of April 304, in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom.
Pope Saint Celestine V
Pope Saint Celestine V (1215 – 19 May 1296).
Pietro Angelerio was born to Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in Sant'Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia (Sicily). After his father's death he began working in the fields. From the time he was a child, he showed great intelligence and love for others. At the age of 17 he became a Benedictine monk at Faifoli in Benevento and showed an extraordinary disposition toward asceticism and solitude.In1239 he retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morrone, hence his name. Five years later he left this retreat, and went with two companions to a similar cave on the Mountain of Maiella in the Abruzzi region of central Italy, where he lived according to the example of St. John the Baptist.In 1244 Pietro Angelerio founded,the order of the Celestines.
After the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone." The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca's decision. When sent for, Morrone obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the kings of Naples and Hungary. Elected on 5 July 1294 at age 79, he was crowned at Santa Maria di Collemaggio in the city of Aquila in the Abruzzo on 29 August, taking the name of Celestine V.
Pope Celestine V had become overwhelmed by the demands of the papal office, Pope Celestine V ,a hermetic pontiff stepped down after five months as pope.
The Tomb Of Saint Celestine V In The Basilica Of Santa Maria di Collemaggio.
Pope Benedict XVI prayed at this tomb in the central Italian city of L'Aquila in 2009.
Pope Gregory XII ( 1326 – 18 October 1417), born Angelo Correr or Corraro, was Pope from 1406 toresign, Gregory XII stepped down in 1415 to help end a church schism.The remainder of Gregory XII's life 1415. He succeeded Pope Innocent VII on 30 November 1406.Pope Gregory XII: The last pope to was spent in peaceful obscurity in Ancona. He was the last pope to voluntarily abdicate until Benedict XVI in 2013.
Pope Gregory XII
Pope Marcellinus became bishop of Rome on 30 June 296; after Pope St Caius who was was Pope from 17 December 283 to 22 April 296.Pope Marcellinus papacy ended on thwe 1st April 304.His feast day is on the 26th April and he was given Sainthood.
Marcellinus’ pontificate began at a time when Diocletian was Roman Emperor, but before his persecution of the Christians. During Diocletian's persecution Marcellinus was called upon to sacrifice, and terrorised complied with the Roman emperor's order to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods and offered incense to idols, but that, repenting shortly afterwards, he confessed the faith of Christ Marcellinus after his fall presented himself before a council, which refused to try him on the ground that prima sedes a nemine iudicatur. Marcellinus suffered martyrdom and was buried, on the 26th of April 304, in the cemetery of Priscilla, on the Via Salaria, 25 days after his martyrdom.
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056),
Pope Benedict IX ( 1012 – 1056), born in Rome as Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048.One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy which he sold to his godfather Gregory VI and resigned in 1045.Benedict was born the son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, and was a nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX. His father obtained the Papal chair for him, granting it to his son in October 1032.Benedict IX was around 18 to 20 years old when made Pope.He had few qualifications for the papacy other than connections with a socially powerful family, although in terms of theology and the ordinary activities of the Church he was entirely unorthodox. He reportedly led an extremely dissolute life and St. Peter Damian is alleged to have described him as "feasting on immorality"The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "a disgrace to the Chair of Peter."
Pope Saint Celestine V (1215 – 19 May 1296).
Pietro Angelerio was born to Angelo Angelerio and Maria Leone in Sant'Angelo Limosano, in the Kingdom of Sicilia (Sicily). After his father's death he began working in the fields. From the time he was a child, he showed great intelligence and love for others. At the age of 17 he became a Benedictine monk at Faifoli in Benevento and showed an extraordinary disposition toward asceticism and solitude.In1239 he retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morrone, hence his name. Five years later he left this retreat, and went with two companions to a similar cave on the Mountain of Maiella in the Abruzzi region of central Italy, where he lived according to the example of St. John the Baptist.In 1244 Pietro Angelerio founded,the order of the Celestines.
After the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, "In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone." The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca's decision. When sent for, Morrone obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the kings of Naples and Hungary. Elected on 5 July 1294 at age 79, he was crowned at Santa Maria di Collemaggio in the city of Aquila in the Abruzzo on 29 August, taking the name of Celestine V.
Pope Saint Celestine V
Pope Saint Celestine V issued two decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope and the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294. In the formal instrument of renunciation he recited as the causes moving him to the step, "the desire for humility, for a purer life, for a stainless conscience, the deficiencies of his own physical strength, his ignorance, the perverseness of the people, his longing for the tranquility of his former life".Having divested himself of every outward symbol of papal dignity, he retired to his old solitude.Pope Celestine V had become overwhelmed by the demands of the papal office, Pope Celestine V ,a hermetic pontiff stepped down after five months as pope.
Pope Gregory XII ( 1326 – 18 October 1417), born Angelo Correr or Corraro, was Pope from 1406 toresign, Gregory XII stepped down in 1415 to help end a church schism.The remainder of Gregory XII's life 1415. He succeeded Pope Innocent VII on 30 November 1406.Pope Gregory XII: The last pope to was spent in peaceful obscurity in Ancona. He was the last pope to voluntarily abdicate until Benedict XVI in 2013.
Pope Gregory XII
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