Picture this: You're a 79-year-old hermit. Your entire life is prayer and solitude in a mountain cave in Italy.
You've escaped the world and all its noise.
Then suddenly, a group of cardinals and kings arrive, kneel before you, and force you to accept the most powerful position in Christendom—the Papacy.
That's exactly what happened to Pietro del Morrone. And what he did next changed history forever.
This is the story of someone who absolutely did not want power, but was forced to take it precisely for that reason.
And the decision he made next was something that hadn't happened for 700 years.
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