![]() ![]() ![]() But no king or prince came from beyond the Alps, and none sent representatives with powers to commit his state to war nationalism, which was to achieve the Reformation, was already strong enough to make the papacy an ineffectual suppliant before the thrones of the kings. He addressed great throngs in one of the most moving orations of his career. Arrayed in the most gorgeous vestments of his office, he was borne through the city on a litter held up by the nobles and vassals of the Church. He himself arrived there on May 27, 1459. Greece, Epirus, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia were falling to the enemies of Christianity who could say when they would leap across the Adriatic into Italy? A month after his coronation Pius issued an invitation to all Christian princes to join him in a great congress at Mantua and lay plans to rescue Eastern Christendom from the Ottoman tide. On the very day of his coronation he expressed his horror at the advance of the Moslems along the Danube to Vienna, and through the Balkans into Bosnia. ![]() ![]() These disputes fettered the efforts of the Pope to unify Europe against the Turks. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |