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The Popes contains biographical data of the Popes in recent history. The page "Post-Reformation Popes" includes the papal history of the so-called Enlightenment Era, from after the the Counter-Reformation (1648) to the Treaty of Vienna (1815).
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His Holiness Pope Alexander VII died on 22 May 1667 in Rome, in the 13th year of his pontificate, at the age of 68 years. He was buried on 25 May in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Clement IX died on 9 December 1669 in Rome, in the 3rd year of his pontificate, at the age of 69 years. He was buried on 12 December in the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Clement X died on 22 July 1676 in Rome, in the 7th year of his pontificate, at the age of 86 years. He was buried on 26 July in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 15 October 1691 to the Chapel of St. Petronilla of the same basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Innocent XI died on 12 August 1689 in Rome, in the 13th year of his pontificate, at the age of 78 years. He was buried on 16 August in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 26 July 1701 to the Grottoes of the same basilica. The diocesan process for his canonization was initiated on 11 April 1691, his heroic virtues were proclaimed on 15 November 1955 by the Ven. Pope Pius XII, and he was beatified on 7 October 1956 by the same Roman Pontiff. His mortal remains were afterwards transferred to the altar of the Chapel of Saint Sebastian of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica. They were transferred on 8 April 2011 to the altar of the Transfiguration of the Papal Vatican Basilica. His feast is kept on 12 August, and is in Rome an optional Memorial and in the Vatican an obligatory Memorial.
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His Holiness Pope Alexander VIII died on 1 February 1691 in Rome, in the 2nd year of his pontificate, at the age of 80 years. He was buried on 5 February in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 18 February 1706 within the same basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Innocent XII died on 27 September 1700 in Rome, in the 10th year of his pontificate, at the age of 85 years. He was buried on 1 October in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Clement XI died on 19 March 1721 in Rome, in the 21st year of his pontificate, at the age of 71 years. He was buried on 23 March in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 21 March 1722 within the same basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Innocent XIII died on 7 March 1724 in Rome, in the 3rd year of his pontificate, at the age of 68 years. He was buried on 12 March in the Grottoes of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XIII died on 21 February 1730 in Rome, in the 6th year of his pontificate, at the age of 81 years. He was buried on 25 February in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 23 February 1733 to the basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome. The diocesan process for his canonization was initiated on 21 February 1931 by Pope Pius XI.
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His Holiness Pope Clement XII died on 6 February 1740 in Rome, in the 10th year of his pontificate, at the age of 87 years. He was buried on 10 February in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 27 July 1742 to the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XIV died on 3 May 1758 in Rome, in the 18th year of his pontificate, at the age of 83 years. He was buried on 7 May in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Clement XIII died on 2 February 1769 in Rome, in the 11th year of his pontificate, at the age of 75 years. He was buried on 8 February in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 27 September 1774 within the same basilica.
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His Holiness Pope Clement XIV died on 22 September 1774 in Rome, in the 6th year of his pontificate, at the age of 68 years. He was buried on 27 September in the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, and his mortal remains were transferred on 21 January 1802 to the basilica of Santi Dodici Apostoli, Rome.
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His Holiness Pope Pius VI died on 29 August 1799 in the citadel of Valence, France, in the 25th year of his pontificate, at the age of 81 years. He was buried on 29 January 1800 in Valence, and his mortal remains were transferred on 17 February 1802 to the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica, where on 18 February he was buried in the Grottoes of the same basilica.
[1] Emilio Bonaventura Cardinal Altieri was created a Cardinal Priest in the consistory of 29 November 1669, but never received a title or the scarlet galero because of the death of Pope Clement IX on 9 December and his own election in the subsequent conclave.
[2] Pedro Martínez de Luna Cardinal "De Aragonia" had reigned as Antipope (1394-1423) with the name Benedict XIII.
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