Know that I am the successor of Peter. It is Pope Adrian the Fifth who speaks. He was of the family of the Counts of Lavagna, the family taking its title from the river Lavagna, flowing between Siestri and Chiaveri, towns on the Riviera di Genova. He was Pope only thirty-nine days, and died in 1276. When his kindred came to congratulate him on his election, he said, “Would that ye came to a Cardinal in good health, and not to a dying Pope.” ↩

Revelation 19:10:⁠—

“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me. See thou do it not, I am thy fellow-servant.”

“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me. See thou do it not, I am thy fellow-servant.”

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