ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 9th of October CLEMENT II., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index (Suidger.) His date of birth is unknown; he was enthroned on December 25, 1046; he died October 9, 1047. In the autumn of 1046 the King of Germany, Henry III, crossed the Alps at the head of a large army and accompanied by a brilliant retinue of the secular and ecclesiastical princes of the empire, for the twofold purpose of receiving the imperial crown and of restoring order in the Italian peninsula. The condition of Rome in particular was deplorable. In St Peter’s, the Lateran, and St Mary Major’s, sat three rival claimants to the papacy. Two of them, Benedict IX and Sylvester III, represented rival factions of the Roman nobility. The position of the third, Gregory VI, was peculiar. The reform party, in order to free the city from the intolerable yoke of the House of Tusculum, and the Church from the stigma of Benedict’s dissolute life, had stipulated ...