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The Popes contains biographical data of the Popes in recent history. The page "Counter-Reformation Popes" includes the papal history of the era of the Counter-Reformation, from the close of the Council of Trent (1563) to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648).
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His Holiness Pope Pius IV died on 9 December 1565 in Rome, in the 6th year of his pontificate, at the age of 66 years. He was buried on 19 December in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 4 June 1583 to the basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, Rome.
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His Holiness Pope Pius V died on 1 May 1572 in Rome, in the 7th year of his pontificate, at the age of 68 years. He was buried on 3 May in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 9 January 1588 to the Chapel of the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica. He was beatified on 1 May 1672 by Pope Clement X, and was canonized on 22 May 1712 by Pope Clement XI. His feast was originally kept on 5 May, celebrated as a Double Feast in the universal calendar, and was re-classified as a III Class feast on 25 July 1960 by Pope St. John XXIII. The feast was transferred to 30 April as an optional Memorial in the universal calendar on 14 February 1969 by Pope St. Paul VI, and is in Rome and the Vatican kept as an obligatory Memorial.
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His Holiness Pope Gregory XIII died on 10 April 1585 in Rome, in the 13th year of his pontificate, at the age of 83 years. He was buried on 12 April in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Sixtus V died on 27 August 1590 in Rome, in the 6th year of his pontificate, at the age of 68 years. He was buried on 29 August in the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Urban VII died on 27 September 1590 in Rome, before his coronation, in the 1st year of his pontificate, at the age of 69 years. He was buried on 28 September in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 21 September 1606 to the basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome.
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His Holiness Pope Gregory XIV died on 16 October 1591 in Rome, in the 1st year of his pontificate, at the age of 56 years. He was buried on 17 October in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Innocent IX died on 30 December 1591 in Rome, in the 1st year of his pontificate, at the age of 72 years. He was buried in the Grottoes of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Clement VIII died on 3 March 1605 in Rome, in the 14th year of his pontificate, at the age of 69 years. He was buried in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred in 1646 to the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Leo XI died on 27 April 1605 in Rome, in the 1st year of his pontificate, at the age of 69 years. He was buried on 30 April in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Paul V died on 28 January 1621 in Rome, in the 16th year of his pontificate, at the age of 70 years. He was buried on 7 February in the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Gregory XV died on 8 July 1623 in Rome, in the 3rd year of his pontificate, at the age of 69 years. He was buried on 9 July in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, his mortal remains were transferred on 13 June 1634 to the Collegio Romano, and were afterward buried in the church of Sant'Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio, Rome.
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His Holiness Pope Urban VIII died on 29 July 1644 in Rome, in the 21st year of his pontificate, at the age of 76 years. He was buried on 31 July in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Innocent X died on 7 January 1655 in Rome, in the 11th year of his pontificate, at the age of 80 years. He was buried on 8 January in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were later transferred to the basilica of Sant'Agnese in Agone, Rome.
[1] Pope Urban VIII issued a decree on 10 June 1630 reserving the titles eminentia, eminentissime, and vestra eminentia from that day forward to the use of the Cardinals. Certain exceptions were allowed, such as the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta and the Archbishop Electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
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