Acclamation: Facts

Facts on topics related to Acclamation

Gregory XV was acclaimed as the new pope in the papal conclave of 1621 even though Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had received the most votes in the ballot?
George Hammond Whalley, a British Member of Parliament, once claimed that the Pope had taken control of the Royal Artillery?
Giovanni Faber (pictured), doctor to the Pope, botanist and art collector, coined the name "microscope"?
Isabelle Romée was the mother of Joan of Arc and petitioned the Pope before her daughter's conviction for heresy was overturned?
Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
Toto's seizure of power in Rome, Italy, in 767 is one of the first indications that the military aristocracy believed that supreme power in Rome rested with the papal office?
Saint Vigilius of Trent, stoned to death for overturning a statue of Saturn, was the first martyr canonized by a pope?
Walter of Pontoise was the last person to be canonized in Western Europe by someone other than the Pope?
Greek monk Maximus the Confessor dominated the Lateran Council of 649, the first council convened by a pope to claim ecumenical status?
according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?

Gregory XV was acclaimed as the new pope in the papal conclave of 1621 even though Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had received the most votes in the ballot?