ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 8th of July WELCOME! BLESSED EUGENE III., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Bernardo Pignatelli, born in the neighbourhood of Pisa, elected February 15, 1145; died at Tivoli, July 8, 1153. On the very day that Pope Lucius II succumbed, either to illness or wounds, the Sacred College, foreseeing that the Roman populace would make a determined effort to force the new pontiff to abdicate his temporal power and swear allegiance to the Senatus Populusque Romanus, hastily buried the deceased pope in the Lateran and withdrew to the remote cloister of St Caesarius on the Appian Way. Here, for reasons unascertained, they sought a candidate outside their body, and unanimously chose the Cistercian monk, Bernard of Pisa, abbot of the monastery of Tre Fontane, on the site of St Paul’s martyrdom. HE WAS ENTHRONED WITHOUT DELAY He was enthroned as Eugene III without delay in St John Lateran, and since residence in the rebellious city was ...