ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 27th of September WELCOME! INNOCENT XII., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Antonio Pignatelli was born at Spinazzolo near Naples, March 13, 1615; he died at Rome, September 27, 1700. He entered the Roman Curia at the age of twenty and was successively made vice-legate at Urbino, inquisitor in Malta, and Governor of Perugia. Under Innocent X he became nuncio in Tuscany, and Alexander VII sent him as nuncio to Poland, where he regulated the disturbed ecclesiastical affairs and united the Armenians with Rome. In 1668 he became nuncio at Vienna. Innocent XI created him Cardinal-Priest of San Pancrazio fuori le mura and Bishop of Faenza on September 1, 1682, then Archbishop of Naples in 1687. After the death of Alexander VIII the cardinals entered the conclave at Rome on February 11, 1691, but neither the French nor the Spanish-Habsburg faction among the cardinals could carry its candidate. A compromise r...