GEMMS Person ID
GEMMS-PERSON-
4340
(old series: GEMMS-PERSON-4596)
Name
(Felice Peretti) Sixtus V
Title
Pope
Gender
Male
Denomination
Catholic
Lived
b. 1520-12-13 d. 1590-08-27 (new)
Linked Sermons
Die Sancti Stephani
(autograph: No )
- auditor
Die Sancti Stephani
(autograph: No )
- auditor
Die Sancti Stephani
(autograph: No )
- auditor
Die S. Stephani
(autograph: No )
- auditor
Source of Data
Lucy Underwood
Biographical Sources Consulted
J.N.D. Kelly, A Dictionary of Popes (2nd. ed) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 [online edn.])
Other note
Noted for re-establishing law and order in the Papal States, with considerable harshness. Also promoted Catholic renewal movements in building and scholarship, remodelling Rome as a Baroque city.
GEMMS record created
March 24, 2024
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024