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The Papal Conclave: How Cardinals Chose Popes
Before the Sistine Chapel frescoes, there was the secret room. In Episode 232, we explore the birth of the papal conclave system in 1274, born from frustration over a three-year deadlock in Viterbo. Lucas and Luna trace how cardinals were locked behind walls with no food or roof to force a decision. We meet Pope Gregory X, who drafted the decrees of the Second Council of Lyon, establishing the rules that still govern papal elections today. The story includes the famous incident where locals nailed shut the doors of the apostolic palace, leaving the clergy to eat stale bread and drink watered…
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