Key Facts
 Other names Ippolito Aldobrandini
 Born 1536
 Location  Fano, Italy
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Position Pope (1592-1605)
Died March 3, 1605

 
 Source of Facts and Important Announcement
Status Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification   Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.
  Background
 

Born at Fano to a distinguished Florentine family, he studied law under his father, an able jurist; his ecclesiastical career was as a lawyer: consistorial advocate, auditor of the Rota and the Datary.
  He was appointed Cardinal at the age of 48 in 1584 and sent as a legate to Poland. Aldobrandini won the gratitude of the Habsburgs by his successful diplomatic efforts in Poland to obtain the release of the imprisoned Archduke Maximilian, the defeated claimant to the Polish throne.
  At the death of Pope Innocent IX in 1591, the influence of King Philip II of Spain (1556-1598) no longer held sway in controlling the Cardinals. The Italian and German Cardinals aligned to have Cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini elected on January 30, 1592 as Pope Clement VIII.
  Pope Clement VIII was fanatical in his antagonism towards the increasing debate that human beings possess free will. Despite the Synod of Brest in 1595 invoilving both Jesuit and Dominican leadership, Pope Clement VIII refused to pronounce a decision.
  He ruthlessly sought out those showing signs of creative genius and a desire to break from the madness of the Papacy "flat earth" view. On February 17, 1600, Giordano Bruno, a strong believer of free will, was burned alive due solely to the order of Pope Clement VIII.
  Of the many evil acts done by Pope Clement VIII, one of the worst was the murder on orders of the Pope of Francesco Cenci, a wealthy family who held various estates and property including Palazzo Cenci. In 1598, Pope Clement VIII ordered Cenci killed. He then proceeded to have his children arrested for the murder of their father, having Giacomo quartered with a mallet, his limbs being hung in four quarters; Lucrezia and Beatrice beheaded. Pope Clement VIII then proceeded to give the properties of the Cenci to his Aldobrandini family.
  In 1599, Clement VIII directly ordered Menocchio, a famous philosopher who had created a cosmology all by himself, holding that all life evolved like rotten cheese, was also put to the stake and burned alive.
  Pope Clement VIII was also a fully committed anti-semite with deep hatred of the Jews.
  In Cum saepe accidere (February 28, 1592) he forbid the long-established Jewish community of the papal enclave of Avignon to sell new goods, putting them at a disadvantage and fostering the cliché of the Jew as a dealer in secondhand goods.
  With Caeca et obdurata (February 25, 1593) he confirmed the bull of Pope Paul III (1534–49) that established a ghetto for the ancient community of Jews in Rome, and reiterated the ban on Jews, who had otherwise been formally expelled from the Papal States by Pope Pius V (1566–72) (in Hebraeorum gens, February 26, 1569) dwelling outside of the ghettos of Rome, Ancona, and Avignon, thus ensuring that they remained city-dwellers.
  With Cum Haebraeorum malitia a few days later (February 28) he even forbade the reading of the Talmud. It is alleged that Clement VIII's reference to the "blind (Latin: caeca) obstinacy" of the Jews gave rise to the religious slur "kike".
  He died on March 3, 1605.
  Most Evil Crimes
 
 List of most evil crimes
Type Year Crime
  Of publishing false statements for the purpose of murder: (1595) French judge Nicholas Remy (1530-1612) publishes Demonolatreiae arguing that "whatever is not normal is due to the Devil".
    Of murder: (1595) French judge Nicolas Remy denounces witchcraft as most serious of all crimes and personally sends some 900 witches to their deaths.
  Of murder: (1600) Scientist-philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned at stake in Rome for espousing Copernicus' theory that planets orbit sun.
  Of crimes against humanity: (1602) 600 people, including young children, are sent to stake by Burgundy's most notorious witch judge, Henri Boguet (1550-1619); many are brutally tortured.
    Of establishing an unlawful enterprise for the purpose of crime: (1602) That the Jesuit order and its business supporters did form the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC in Dutch, literally "United East Indies Company ( Dutch East India Company). That the purpose of this criminal enterprise was to establish trade monopolies for the exploitation of goods and materials identified by Jesuit missionaries throughout Asia. Furthermore, that the funds gained by such trade in turn could then be used to further the objectives of both the Jesuit order and the Roman Catholic Church. That the VOC was the first international corporation with shares. That it was the first international drug cartel and responsible for the commercialization of poppy harvesting for opium/heroin trade to China and Europe.
    Of publishing false statements for the purpose of murder: (1602) Henri Boguet writes infamous Discours des Sorciers which intensifies fear and persecution of witches in following decades.
     
   
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