The tradition of popes taking new names upon their election is one of the most recognizable customs in the Roman Catholic ...

Pope Francis’s successor will ... real work of electing a pope began. Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...

construction began on the temporary cells that would house them all during the sequestration and the real work of electing a pope began. Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election ...

Pope Pius II, who led from 1458 to 1464, picked his name because he loved books. His real name was Enea Silvio Piccolomini, and he chose "Pius" after a character named Aeneas in a famous poem ...