Leo X Becomes Pope
1513
Giovanni de Medici, forty-year-old second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was elected Pope Leo X and is supposed to have told his brother, Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it. He did. Leo patronized Raphael, financed Saint Peter's through indulgences, and helped provoke Martin Luther's rebellion.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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