Innocent was the first pope to form a Papal state.

He was about to leave the 109-acre papal state called Vatican City.

Further relatives were enlisted in the service of the pope in the Papal State.

The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family.

Popes throughout the century had toured by train, leaving from the Vatican's own railroad depot within the walls of the papal state.

However, the papal state has previously run budget deficits and obtains much of its money from international donations such as Peter's Pence.

The present papal state, a 108.7-acre enclave near the west bank of the Tiber River, is more than three miles from the Lateran.

(No doubt the pope had in mind previous imperial aggression in the Papal State.)

Odoardo countered with a military march of his own, this time on the papal state itself and his forces were soon close enough to threaten Rome.

The Vatican Is home to the current Pope Francis, and it is also currently the one papal state in existence.

He went northwards where he joined Sigismondo Malatesta and 200 of his men to launch assaults on the papal state.

A few miles to the south the green Cape Vaticano recalls the epoch five centuries ago when the papal state had its own fleet of galleys.

The king threatened Pope Innocent XI with a general council and a military take-over of the Papal state.

The concessions included no word about the overlordship of north Italy, the Papal State and Sicily, whose integrity Innocent wanted assured.

Many repressive measures were introduced by Frederick II to please the popes who were afraid of Islam close to the papal state.

The Papal state also used Sant'Angelo as a prison; Giordano Bruno, for example, was imprisoned there for six years.

He had created the reality of a Papal State and had laid secure foundations for his successors, barring the breaking of solemn oaths and international agreements.

The house was built in 1700 by Pierre del Bianco, the marquis de Brantes, the paymaster for the soldiers of the papal state of Avignon.

The aim was also to reach Bologna and Modena, and thus to connect the Papal state to Lombardy and Veneto railway network.

Thus it was during the first Papal state visit to the UK that Pope Benedict XVI himself performed the beatification on 19 September 2010.

It is believed that his reforms did not comply with the wishes of some noble men from Osor, who took advantage of the instability within the papal state and attacked him.

In 1854, the secretary of the Papal state, Giovanni Antonelli, commissioned the statuary group of Ecce Homo, which now stands across from the Bacio group.

But when the haplessly honest detective lets it slip that the dead man, an aristocrat to whom the papal state had given political asylum, was murdered, he is pressed into investigating the case.

The Order of St Gregory the Great was founded in 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI to honour loyal and well-deserving citizens of the papal state.

He was appointed Commissary of the papal troops during the Wars of Castro and Intendant-General of the galleys of the Papal State.