Paul V

See also: Borghese

Camille Borghèse (it. : Camillo Borghese ), born with Rome the September 17th 1550, died in Rome the January 28th 1621), elected pope the May 16th 1605 under the name of Paul V (in Latin Paulus V , in Italian Paolo V ). " People pervesa " in the Prophecy of Saint Malachie.

Descendant of an big family of His, Camillo Borghese follows studies of canonical Droit to the Université of Perugia, then of the Université of Bologna. It enters the Roman Curie then. In 1596, Clément VIII names it cardinal.

With died of Leon XI, it is elected Pape. Its reign is marked by an strict application of the right. Thus, it returns the bishops in their dioceses, pursuant to the decrees of the Concile of Thirty. He endeavors to maintain the mode of the ecclesiastical exemptions, which is worth to him conflicts with many Italian States, in particular the republic of Venice: in 1600, it excommunicates the doge, the Senate and the other Venetian institutions. A little later the city is struck of prohibited. It called upon the European nations to put an end to persecutions of the Christians in the Far East.

While being favorable to astronomical research, it let condemn work of Copernic.

There remains famous to have completed the Basilique Saint-Pierre of Rome. The plank overhanging the cabin of the blessings carries the following inscription thus:

“ IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOSTolis. PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONTifex MAXimus ANno MDCXII PONTificatus VII (hoc fecit) : Paul V Borghese, Roman pontiff, (made do this) in the year 1612, the seventh year of its pontificate, in the honor of the prince of the apostles. ”

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