Free Download Wendy J. Reardon, "The Deaths of the Popes: Comprehensive Accounts, Including Funerals, Burial Places and Epitaphs"
English | ISBN: 0786461160 | 2010 | 320 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The traditions associated with a pope’s death have changed from when they were buried in the catacombs of Rome. Various ceremonies, rites and rituals developed over time, but a formal procedure was not initiated until the early 1300s and even then was not always strictly followed.