Sunday, January 24, 2021

Report in "Gazette de France" on Kristina's visit to the Vatican Church and Pope Clement IX, dated January 2, 1669

Source:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6277290w/f2.image.r=Reyne%20Christine?rk=64378;0

The report:

De Rome, le 2 Ianvier 1669.
... Le 26 [Décembre], la Reyne Christine de Süéde, qui avoit passé les Festes au Monastére de Regina-Céli, apres avoir visité l'Eglise du Vatican, alla baiser les pieds du Pape: & lui fit le mesme Compliment.

English translation (my own):

From Rome, 2 January 1669.
... On December 26, Queen Kristina of Sweden, who had spent the holidays at the Monastery of Regina Caeli, after having visited the Vatican Church, went to kiss the Pope's feet, and gave him the same compliment.


Above: Kristina.


Above: Pope Clement IX.

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