Saturday, May 16, 2020

Excerpt from English translation of President Viole to Monsieur Marigny, dated November 6, 1655

Source:

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/thurloe-papers/vol4/pp110-124#h3-0009

The letter:

The queen Christina, who is a catholic in her heart, is to make public profession there of at Inspruck; and the pope will present her in the quality of a queen. He is sending four nuncios to her, to meet her upon the confines of the ecclesiastical territories, and the cardinals de Medici and Hesse two miles from Rome.


Above: Kristina.

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