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... gues echoing over the marble courtyards and the city’s teeming markets.

Yet inside the Apostolic Palace, the air was thick not with prayer, but with tension.

Pope John XIX sat in the high-backed chair of the Consistory Hall, its carved arms depicting the Twelve Apostles.

Cardinals lined the walls in crimson robes, their faces stiff with unease.

The pontiff’s fingers drummed on the armrest as a messenger, dusty from the road, his cloak salt-stained from the sea, kn ...

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