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- GREGORY XI Born in Maumont (France), he was elected on
the 5th January 1371 and died on the 26th March 1378. After the intervention
of St. Catherine of Siena he brought the Holy See back to Rome. The Roman
Senate donated a part of the Vatican Hill to him. He included St. Mary
Major's among the Basilicas for gaining a jubilee indulgence.
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- URBAN VI Born in Naples, he was elected on the 18th
April 1378 and died on the 15th October 1389. The conclave that elected
him was the first to be held in the Vatican. Being of a very difficult
temperament, he could not avoid the creation of anti-pope at Avignon, and
this fought about the Western Schism which lasted forty years.
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- BONIFACE IX Born in Naples, he was elected in November
1389 and died on the Ist October 1404. He failed to settle the question
of the schism since the second Avignon Anti-pope refused any form of reconciliation.
He celebrated the 3rd and 4th Holy Years (1390, 1400), during which the
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