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Pope  could  sanction  as  his  own  the  measures  proposed  by  Them.  And  they  also  had  an
               astounding secret: a Cardinal, the Benedictine Gaetani, coming from a Ghibelline family and
               openly enrolled in the cause of France, was one of their own. This Golem, Doctor in Canon Law,
               Theologian and expert in Diplomacy, would place himself near to the Saint without awakening
               the suspicions of the Colonna, against whom he fed in his interior mortal desires.
                      It  is  convenient  to  standout  now  the  two  changes  introduced  by  Celestine  V  at  the
               requests of Charles II. The numbers of Cardinals increased naming other twelve, most of them
               French and Italian, and he re-established the law of the Conclave, that obeyed to replace the
               vacancies members  of the Sacred College. And  he  bestowed to the Spiritual Franciscans the
               authorization  to  work  independently  from  the  Order  of  Friars  Minor.  Such  dispositions
               favored the French influence in the Church and the party of the Colonna.
                      The Golems would not reach to control Celestine V. And as the moths passed and fell in
               the  account  that  the  war  between  France  and  England  not  only  strengthened  Philip  IV  but
               threatened with paralyzing the plans of the White Fraternity. There was no time for quibbling
               anymore: was urgent to eliminate the Saint and put in his place a Golem Pope, a man capable to
               impose over such callow King who dared to challenge the Potencies of the Matter: since the
               Throne  of  Saint  Peter,  which  dominion  they  had  exerted  almost  continuously  for  seven
               hundred years, would present to Philip IV an opposition as was never seen since the days of
               Henry  IV,  Frederick  I  and  Frederick  II.  However,  they  didn’t  dare  to  kill  Celestine  for  the
               repercussions that this fact could have over the people of Italy, which was impressed by the
               spiritual  virtues  of  the  Pope.  In  this  way  appeared  the  idea  to  convince  the  Saint  that  his
               Pontificate was not appropriate for the Church, which required a Pope occupied to carry out
               other important issues apart of the religious, as to be administrative, legislative, juristic, and
               diplomatic.The  prolocutor  of  this  idea,  and  who  offered  the  legal  counseling  to  fulfill  the
               renounce, was the Benedictine Cardinal Gaetani.
                      Such pressures produced doubts in Celestine, but the advices of those who wanted him
               to remain in his place could be more, due to the Church required the Sanctity of his presence.
                      Approximately after five months of his reign, Benedictine Gaetani reaches to the coarse
               appeal to buy his valet and to place him from the superior floor, a voice bearer tube on the back
               of the Christ of the Altar, in a Chapel to which Celestine concurred daily to pray: the voice that
               emerged from «Jesus» said: «Celestine, release from your sword the feud of the Papacy, due to
               its heaviest that your forces». In a beginning, the Saint took the advice as from Heaven, but
               later he was warned about the humbug. However, the Christmas party was drawing nigh and
               Celestine was disposed to retire to a lonely monastery in the Abruzzo to pray in solitude, as was
               his custom of all his life. By counsel of the King of Naples, he decided to assign three Cardinals
               authorized with great powers to make them act in his name during the four weeks of absence:
                      was in those weeks when a Golem Cardinal accused the Pope of an illegal action. The
               Church, said him, that he could not have four husbands, the papal dignity was not delegable up
               to that point. So, the Saint decided to renounce, more disgusted  by the  intrigues that were
               around him than for the brandished arguments.
                      But to renounce from the papal investiture, is not the same to abdicate from the royal
               investiture. In the Canon Law in force until then, the possibility was not contemplated and had
               never presented a case since Saint Peter named his successor to Saint Linus, in the I century.
                      On the contrary, the Canon Law affirmed that the investiture was lifetime, due to its

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