The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . Mors, in presence of thegenerals of the Dominicans, Carmelites, and Jesuits, and expired on the12th of August, 1689, at the age of seventy-eight, after governing the Churchtwelve years, ten months, and twenty-three days. Innocent was one of the most illustrious pontiffs of the Roman Church,and owed his elevation solely to his merit. Even Protestants do him jus-tice. His decisions were fuU of equity, he thought neither of himself nor ofhis kindred ; he was free from all nepotism, attentive to the good of Chris-tianity ; and the
The Lives and times of the Roman Pontiffs from StPeter to Pius IX . Mors, in presence of thegenerals of the Dominicans, Carmelites, and Jesuits, and expired on the12th of August, 1689, at the age of seventy-eight, after governing the Churchtwelve years, ten months, and twenty-three days. Innocent was one of the most illustrious pontiffs of the Roman Church,and owed his elevation solely to his merit. Even Protestants do him jus-tice. His decisions were fuU of equity, he thought neither of himself nor ofhis kindred ; he was free from all nepotism, attentive to the good of Chris-tianity ; and these many virtues led, after his death, to efforts for his canon-ization. The Romans insisted on his being proclaimed a saint, and carriedoff as relics the cloak that covered his body. chased by Aleuander VIII., who deposited nine hundred manuscripts in the Vatican, and gavethe rest to his family. Odescalclii, nephew of Innocent XL, bought the paintings and antiquesIn 1722, a part of these paintings were purchased by the regent of France, for ninety vliiralio aiiai: f^lur ,1 ii[[\\] uf tlic .[uiv^Hrij. INNOCENT XI, 165 A contemporaneous work, Chronological History of the Popes, Emperors,&c. (Paris, 1684), says: If the reader desires a just and unvarnished idea of the rare qualitiesof this excellent pope, let him read all that we have said of the piety, learn-ing, constancy, sanctity, zeal, disinterestedness, and burning charity of thefirst and most illustrious heads of the Church, and each of their perfectionswill serve as traits with which to form the portrait of Innocent. To makeit as accurate as finished, remember, in drawing his eulogy from his prede-cessors, not to descend fiom the fourth and fifth century to our times, butto go back from the fourth. The Holy See was vacant one month and twenty-three days.* * The medals of Innocent XI. are very numerous. Artaud gives the first four as in his colleo-tion; the next forty-three from du Molinet; the two last fro
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