POPE PIUS II
Pope Pius II did many things during his reign that impacted the
lives of the people.
Before being Pope, Pius II (Aeneas Silvius
Piccolomini) was a well known poet and writer.
He made many works of literature which
influenced other people to write.
In the year 1460, he founded a university
which lasted four centuries. After a few years,
the university developed a press in which they
would publish theological and scholastic
literature.This had a large impact on the people,
because the people had a university in which to
study that a Pope had created. Later, in 1461,
he declared that the highest priests in
the church be reformed. A later part of this reformation was
taking away the compactata. Pius II declared it pointless. This
did away with communion of both kinds. This impacted the
church, because this was the first instance in which
communion was prohibited. When Pius II looked into the fight
against the Turks. He gathered the entire christian army and
selected a leader to march in the front of the army when they
fought battles. Pius II had such an impact on the people that
his home city, corsignano, was renamed Pienza after his
death.
SOURCES
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wiff/ho_25.30.17.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pius_II
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&q=Pope+Pius+II&um=1&ie=UTF-8&scoring=t&sa=X&oi=archive&ct=title
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