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Pope Innocent the Third

Bishop of Rome, 1198 – 1216

In this chair

The medieval papacy at its height. Called the Fourth Lateran Council. The age of Francis and Dominic.

Signs of this pontificate

Wonders this archive keeps that belong to the years he sat, or that he himself stood before.

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The Stigmata of St. Francis

La Verna, TuscanySeptember 1224

Two years before his death, Francis of Assisi receives the wounds of the Crucified on the mountain of La Verna — the first widely attested stigmata in Catholic history, and the pattern for all later ones.

Return to the rail — scroll left for Peter.