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and surrounded the Qu inal Palace, r idence of the Po . A mmittee of Public fety n ruling Rome, the Po w a pri ner in his own palace. But the varian am dor worked out an plan Dre d as a simple p est, Pius went out of the Qu through a cret ge way. He was met by a small ge which t k him out of Rome, where he transferred to a large ch and w taken to fety.
The radi ls tried to have el tions r an a mbly but only a few ople thered to vote. me of th who did vote st their llots for Po Pius or St Peter. When the a mbly finally met, it voted an end to the tem ral wer of the Po and the establishment of a pure dem racy to called the Republic of Rome.
The Republic of Rome was short-lived In June 1849 uis Na leon, no doubt urged by his wife, nt French tr to Italy and cha d the revolutionaries out of Rome that the Po w able to retum
As we know, however, Cavour emerged a leader of Italian unifica tion under li ral rule. He ined Lom rdy in 1859 and Naples and Sicily in 18 . In 1 1 the Kingdom of Italy was pr laimed with Victor Em m uel of Piedmont as the first Venetia was added to the kingdom after the ven Weeks War, but the Papal Stat remained inde ndent
And did Po Pius , who refu d to make any conce ions to the rals and in fact made it cl r that he intended to exerci the full au thority of his office. On cem r 1854 he lemnly pr laimed the d trine of the Immaculate Conception, that Mary had en full of ace from the first moment of her existence. Then in 1 Pius i ued the Syl l of Errors, formally condemning the erro of li lism. Finally, in 1 9 he called the First Vatican uncil, which pr laimed pap inf b it the d trine that the Po nnot make a mistake when officially teaching the Church on matte of faith and moral
The revolutionaries couldn't touch the Po 's spiritual authority but they waited their chance to usurp his tem ral authority. The chance came in 1870. Na leon withdrew tr ps from Rome to fight in the Franc Pru ian War. On to r 2 the li ral leader Garibaldi and his tr annexed Rome, making it the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. Po us now had no ter tory of own For many years (until 1929) the Po was known as the Priso r t V ic
Since the Po had l t his liti l wer, many ople lieved that the cy would n colla . But of cour it didn't Pius remained strong until the end He was succeeded in 1878 by an equally strong Po , Leo refu d to make any compromi with revolutionari and
