Gregory II
by Anura Guruge, Mark Trauernicht and Leopold Fitzclarence
1/ 715: Start of Gregory II’s (#89) 15.75 year reign.
2/ 1296: Death of Celestine (god father of conclaves) V (#193), in prison (following one failed escape attempt), from an infection, 17 months after his carefully coordinated, canonically correct abdication, so that he could go back to being a monk — he being badly betrayed and deceived by his confidant, Boniface VIII (#194) who feared the threat of a schism if the very holy ex-pope was permitted to be out in public.
3/ 1611: Birth of Benedetto Odescalchi who 65 years later would be elected Innocent XI (#241).
4/ 1769: Election of Clement XIV (#250), the last pope, to date, to use the name Clement, his suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 (reinstated in 1814 by Pius VII (#252)) possibly being the factor here.
5/ 1837: Gregory XVI (#255)’s ninth cardinal creating consistory at which he created but two cardinals (one in pectore) for a running total, to that point, of 35 (out of the total of 75 he would go on to create in 26 cardinal creating consistories).
St. Celestine V's body at the Basilica in Aquila
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