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The countess who was a great pope's good friend.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
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December 26, 2004
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Byline: Stephanie Deutsch, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The first person who was neither a pope nor saint to be buried in St. Peter's Basilica was female, a 12th-century Tuscan countess, Matilda of Canossa. Her grand marble tomb, carved by Gianlorenzo Bernini, bears an inscription that describes her as "a woman with a virile soul and champion of the Apostolic See, known for her piety, celebrated for her generosity."
In 1992 Michele Spike, an art historian living in Florence, encountered Matilda in a Mantua exhibition; she learned that Matilda had ...
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