Posted on 02/24/2024 6:20:35 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1799, the Bishop of Potenza was lynched by the faithful. Andrea Serrao English Wikipedia entry | Italian) was a late disciple of the reformist Jansenist movement which tended among many other things to such Enlightenment-friendly notions as liberty of conscience, the reduction of the papal authority, and “regalism” — the doctrine of secular supremacy over ecclesiastical.
According to Owen Chadwick’s The Popes and European Revolution, Serrao as Bishop of the southern Italian city of Potenza.....
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Was he vaxed?
Is a lynching really an execution? I suppose the guest of honor ends up just as dead either way.
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