ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 20th of August WELCOME! PIUS VII., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Barnaba Chiaramonti was born at Cesena in the Pontifical States, August 14, 1740; elected at Venice March 14, 1800; he died August 20, 1823. His father was Count Scipione Chiaramonti, and his mother, of the noble house of Ghini, was a lady of rare piety who in 1763 entered a convent of Carmelites at Fano. Here she foretold, in her son's hearing, as Pius VII himself later related, his elevation to the papacy and his protracted sufferings. Barnaba received his early education in the college for nobles at Ravenna. At the age of sixteen he entered the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria del Monte, near Cesena, where he was called Brother Gregory. After the completion of his philosophical and theological studies, he was appointed professor at Parma and at Rome in colleges of his order. He was teaching at the monastery of San Callisto in the latte...