ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH Saints celebrated on the 19th of March WELCOME! CLEMENT XI, POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Giovanni Francesco Albani was born at Urbino, July 23, 1649; was elected November 23, 1700; he died at Rome March 19, 1721. The Albani were a noble Umbrian family. Under Urban VIII the grandfather of the future pope had held for thirteen years the honourable office of Senator of Rome. An uncle, Annibale Albani, was a distinguished scholar and was Prefect of the Vatican Library. Giovanni Francesco was sent to Rome in his eleventh year to prosecute his studies at the Roman College. He made rapid progress and was known as an author at the age of eighteen, translating from the Greek into elegant Latin. He attracted the notice of the patroness of Roman literati, Queen Christina of Sweden, who before he became of age enrolled him in her exclusive Accademia. With equal ardour and success, he applied himself to the profounder branches, theology and la...