Pius VI

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noun

1. Giovanni Angelo, or Giannangelo, Braschi, 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1775–99.

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Pius VI British  

noun

1. original name Giovanni Angelico Braschi . 1717–99, Italian ecclesiastic; pope (1775–99). He opposed French attempts to limit papal authority and denounced (1791) the French Revolution: he died a prisoner of the French in the Revolutionary Wars

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Pius VI

In 1802, Pius VII presided over the funeral of his predecessor, Pius VI, whose body returned to the Vatican after he died in 1799 in exile.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022

Pius VI kept a dog, Diana, at the summer papal residence in Castel Gandolfo.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2022

Mr. Panetta sat in the front row of the Pope Pius VI Audience Hall, where some 7,000 others had gathered for the pope’s weekly audience.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2013

This convent and church were also constructed by Pius VI with a view to facilitate the draining and cultivating of the marshes by affording shelter to the workmen.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E

The rendezvous was the Campo Santo dei Tedeschi, which, with its adjoining church of Santa Maria della Pieta, was donated to the Germans by Pius VI as a burying-ground.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James