Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had sought to ...

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had ...

Pope Pius VII was kidnapped by French forces in his private apartments in the Quirinal Palace in Rome and remained a prisoner of Napoleon for five years. The head of the Catholic church had sought ...

"It was without my orders and against my will that the Pope was taken out of Rome," the French emperor wrote. A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius ...