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Johannes J. J. Döllinger (unter der Leitung von), Beiträge zur politischen, kirchlichen, und cultur- Geschichte der sechs letzten Jahrhunderte III. Band (Regensburg: Georg Joseph Manz 1882), "Kronung Urbans VI." (Vat. Cod. Lat. Monac. 150, fol. 30) (pp. 359-360):

 

Die vero 18. Aprilis, qui erat dies Paschae, in ecclesia s. Joannis Lateranensis, servatis omnibus solemnitatibus eum coronaverunt. Qui, antequam coronaretur, petiit a cardinalibus, si eum in verum papam reputabant propter tumultum factum per populum, cardinalibus ei respondentibus: "Nos habemus te in veriorem papam quam habuerimus s. Petrum." Et sic praedictus papa coronatur cum cardinalibus. Tandem vero cum maxima multitudine populi magnum festum facientibus rediit ad s. Petrum. Neapolitani quoque de praedicti papae creatione tantum festum fecerunt cum choreis, novis vestimentis, insigniis et luminaribus, quod tantum nunquam fecisse recordetur, pluribus et diversis diebus.

 

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This source may be better informed on what happened in Naples than what happened in Rome. Urban VI was crowned on the steps of the Basilica of St. Peter's, not at the Lateran. He took possession of his cathedral church, the Lateran Basilica, on the same day as his coronation. The alleged question to the cardinals and their reply (however wry and sly it appears) is intended merely to put on record that the Cardinals considered him the true pope—which, of course, they did not.

 

 

 

November 12, 2013 4:09 PM

John Paul Adams, CSUN
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