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!Significant activity
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|Clement XIII
||1758
||1769
||Put fig leaves on all the sculpures in the vatican. Practiced nepotism.  Jesuits expelled from Spain and portugal. 
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|Clement XIV
||1769
||1774
||Supressed the Jesuits.
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|Pius VI
||1775
||1799
||French Revolution.  Was finally taken captive and died in French custody.  Effigy burnt in France. 
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|Pius VII
||1800
||1823
||Wore a Paper-mache tierra on coronation, as the original was in french hands.  In french control for 6 years, Napoleon defeated.  Revived the inquisition.
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|Leo XII
||1823
||1829
||Very strict ruler. Ruled Jews must sell property and wear distincitive clothing.  Prohibited vaccinations.
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|Pius VIII
||1829
||1830
||Did little.
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|Gregory XVI
||1831
||1846
||Opposed democracy, banned railways in papal states, opposed to progress.  Involved in numerous executions.  Loved playing blind-man's bluff with cardinals, and known to throw handfulls of money to his servants off his balcony, while he laughed at them scrambling for the money. 
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|Pius IX
||1846
||1878
||Adopted Immaculate conception and papal infallibility.  Denounced secret societies, Bible associations, false philosophy, communism, and the press. Last Pope to hold temporal powers, and marked the end of the Papal states.  Arranged the first vatican council.  Embraced technology.
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|Leo XIII
||1878
||1903
||Supported French Republic, but refused to let Italian Catholics vote.  Condemned the heresy of Americanism. 
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|Pius X
||1903
||1914
||Motto was " Instaurare Omnia in Christo, or "to restore all things in Christ."  Restored the Gregorian Chant. Denounced the separation of church and state in France. Wrote against modernization and revelation. 
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