Pius VI
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Pope Pius VI |
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Pompeo Batoni's portrait of Pius VI - 1775
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| Papacy began | 15 February 1775 |
| Papacy ended | 29 August 1799 |
| Predecessor | Clement XIV |
| Successor | Pius VII |
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| Ordination | 1755 |
| Consecration | 22 February 1775 by Giovanni Francesco Albani |
| Created Cardinal | 26 April 1773 by Pope Clement XIV |
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| Birth name | Giovanni Angelo Braschi |
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25 December 1717 Cesena, Emilia-Romagna, Papal States |
| Died | 29 August 1799 (aged 81) Valence, French Republic |
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| Motto | Floret in Domo Domini (it blossoms in the house of God) |
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Papal styles of Pope Pius VI |
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| Reference style | His Holiness |
| Spoken style | Your Holiness |
| Religious style | Holy Father |
| Posthumous style | None |
Pope Pius VI (25 December 1717 – 29 August 1799), born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, reigned as Pope from 15 February 1775 to his death in 1799.
Pius VI condemned the French Revolution and the suppression of the Gallican Church that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the papal troops and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner and transported to France. He died one year later in Valence. His reign is the fourth-longest in papal history, being over two decades.
The name of Pius VI is associated with the troubles of the French Revolution and restoration of the splendor of Rome under Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) in the promotion of art and public works; the words "Munificentia Pii VI. P. M." graven in all parts of the city, giving rise amongst his impoverished subjects to such satire as the insertion of a minute loaf in the hands of Pasquin with that inscription beneath it.
He is best remembered in connection with the establishment of the Museum of the Vatican which begun at his suggestion of his predecessor Clement XIV and with an impractical and expensive attempt to drain the Pontine Marshes, something later successfully achieved in the 1930s by Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The portrait in the box is one of numerous studio copies of the official portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
Pius VI's pontificate was a tumultuous and rough one with the onset of the French Revolution, but much was accomplished through his work. In the beginning of his Pontificate, Pius succeeded in silencing a group of followers of Jansenism with his bull "Auctorem Fidei", which reaffirmed the Church's stance at the topics at hand. Pius VI also saw the growth of Catholicism in the United States of America, therefore erecting the first American archepiscopal see, the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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