![]() ![]() Scipio somehow got Paul to make Stefano a cardinal. He was a “friend” of the nephew of Paul V, Scipio Card. Although some says it was from envy that lies were told about him, it was said of Pignatelli that his vices were so numerous that not even St. Pignatelli (+1623), son of a Neapolitan pottery maker, who had a spectacularly hideous reputation while alive as a committer of sins that cry to heaven. However, the whole nave is blocked off, so I couldn’t explore for the funerary monument of Stefano Card. The first church was Santa Maria sopra Minerva. I was on the hunt for Pignatelli’s tombs, one a rake of a cardinal, the other a canonized saint… even though – or perhaps because – he was a Jesuit. I do this partially in light of a meeting of a couple of highly visible Jesuits who seemed to have discussed with a measure of approving glee something that their forebears in the Society would have retched over in disgust. Hence, I’ll repost a little of what I wrote the day I found his tomb. A few weeks ago, I posted about going to find in Rome’s mighty, but besmirched, Gesù the tomb of a Jesuit saint held to be as if the Society’s “second founder”, St.
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