Born 1431, Roderic de Borja to
Cardinal Alfonso de Borja into an ancient family in Xàtiva, València, today
Spain but at then Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon. Died 1503.
His birth name is traditionally
assigned as Roderic Llançol on account of Isabella de Borja, his mother being
married to Lanzol Llançol.
After his father "uncle's"
election as Pope Callixtus III (1455-1458), was Roderic was made a Cardinal and
vice-chancellor of the church at the age of just 24.
Upon the death of Innocent VIII, and
after 14 days of wrangling and intrigue by the cardinals, Rodrigo Borja
(1431-1503) was elected Pope Alexander VI. During the time of the conclave,
armed factions called "squadrons" murdered more than 200 people on
the streets of Rome. The splinter groups were angered because Borja, who had
amassed immense wealth, had paid out heavy bribes to the electors before the
commencement of the conclave. Eleven cardinals sold their votes to him (Diarium
of Burchard, appendix to vol. iii) and the Church supports this fact.
His Spanish origins were a factor in
his election, since the cardinals wished to avoid electing a Frenchman. He
served five earlier popes in the post of vice-chancellor, and his election
vacated a large number of lucrative offices and preferments which he promised
to those who undertook to vote for him. As early as 1460, when he was cardinal
and papal legate, he had been reported to Pius II (1458-62) for holding obscene
dances with naked ladies in a garden at Siena, and he continued to enjoy such
spectacles until the end of his life. His pontificate provided one of the
gravest scandals in the Vatican since the Reign of the Whores, and the parade
of his sexual licence was maintained with little or no concealment. It is from
the diary of German chaplain Johann Burchard, Pope Alexander VI's master of ceremonies,
that we learn the most about the character of this Borja pope. Burchard
personally witnessed Alexander's debauchery and wrote the famous comment saying
that "the pope's Christianity was a pretence"
Alexander VI was so notoriously
infamous and his history so large and well known that he has proved a great
embarrassment to the modern Church vainly trying to portray a pious papal past.
He has a unique record among the popes for the public prominence of his
illegitimate children and the blatancy of his amours in the "Sacred
Palace". With his 12 bastard children (Collins Dictionary), including
Cesare, Giovanni (Juan), Lucrezia and Jofre, and his numerous mistresses, the
"Vatican was again a brothel" (The Records of Rome, 1868, British
Library) and his debauched papal court was compared to the ancient
"fleshpots" of Caesarea in which St Augustine (d. 430) revelled.
Alexander VI was a sexual pervert, and lurid stories were bandied about by the
intellectual underworld of Rome.
Venetian Senator Sanuto wrote that
the then Cardinal Borja fancied Rosa Vannozza dei Cattanei, the pretty young
married daughter of his chamberlain, whom Borja paid to arrange a series of
secret daytime liaisons with her. As a result of this affair, Cesare Borja
(1475-1507) was born, and the birth certificate acknowledges this.
In his teenage years, a bitter
Cesare, in his father's presence, stabbed the chamberlain, decapitated him and
pierced his head on a pole with an attached inscription saying: "This is
the head of my grandfather who prostituted his daughter to the pope" (A
History of the Popes, op. cit., Alexander VI chapter). The evidence is serious.
It was claimed that Alexander VI had
sex with Lucrezia (1480-1519), his daughter by Rosa Vannozza dei Cattanei. One
wit of Rome called Lucrezia "the pope's daughter, wife and
daughter-in-law", and he reportedly fathered "nieces" with her
(A History of the Popes, ibid.). It is not worth serious enquiry here whether
he had two or three children with Lucrezia, as most acknowledge, but other
aspects of his conduct must be noted.
Cesare was Rodrigo Borja's favourite
son. When Cesare was only seven, his father prepared his way to the College of
Cardinals by making him a bishop, from which he received a substantial income.
When Cesare was eighteen, his father, as Pope Alexander VI, conferred
cardinality upon him and later elevated him to commander of the Vatican
military in its efforts to extend the Papal States. Cesare grew into a man of
clear and powerful intellect and the pope supported him until his death.
Rodrigo gravely abused his position
as both a cardinal and the head of the Church in establishing a scheme of family
aggrandizement, seen in the rapid advancement of the careers of his children
Pedro Luis (1468-88) (for whom he purchased the duchy of Gand’a, the Borjas'
ancestral home in Valencia, Spain), Cesare, Giovanni (c. 1476-97) (the second
Duke of Gand’a) and Lucrezia.
Ambassadors speak of Cesare's
introduction of multitudes of beautiful courtesans into the Vatican for
Alexander's sexual pleasure in his later years. Burchard gives us astonishing
details of one occasion in which the pope presided at an orgy in the Papal Palace:
"On Sunday evening, 30 October [1501], Don Cesare Borja gave his father a
supper in the apostolic palace, with 50 decent prostitutes or courtesans in
bright garb in attendance, who after the meal danced with the servants and
others there, first fully dressed and then naked. "Following the supper,
lampstands holding lighted candles were placed on the floor and chestnuts
strewn about, which the prostitutes, naked and on their hands and knees, had to
pick up with their mouths as they crawled in and out among the lampstands.
"The Pope watched and admired
their noble parts. The evening ended with an obscene contest of these women,
coupled with male servants of the Vatican, for prizes which the Pope presented.
"Don Cesare, Donna Lucrezia and the Pope later each took a partner of
their liking for further dalliances."
At that time, witchcraft was an
ecclesiastical rather than a civil concern, and the documentation reveals that
the pope's personal beliefs were not that of Christian orthodoxy.
This remark, buried away in a
collection of once-suppressed papal pronouncements called Anecdota
Ecclesiastica or "Secret Church Histories" (Vienta, Paris, 1822
reprint of 1731 ed.) and confirmed in Diderot's Encyclopedie reveals what Pope
Alexander VI really thought of Christianity: "Almighty God! How long will
this superstitious sect of Christians, and this upstart invention,
endure?"
But his grief was assuaged by the
attentions of his lady loves, notably pretty Guilia Farnese, the
fifteen-year-old sister of the "petticoat cardinal" Alessandro
Farnese and whose picture as the Virgin Mary adorns one of the great frescoes
of the Vatican.
Her brother later became Pope Paul
III, and we should not be surprised to read in Burchard's Diarium that Guilia's
daughter Laura was fathered by Pope Alexander VI.
It was this same pope who had the
ascetic Italian religious reformer Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98) and his two
Dominican disciples hanged and then burned for "religious error" at
Florence in May 1498. Amidst his dissoluteness, however, Alexander was aware of
the "silent spread of suspicion in the intelligentsia, even in the clergy
themselves" about the validity of Christianity, and, realising that his
institution could not afford to have its credentials checked, he moved quickly
to establish censorship of damaging publications (Diarium of Burchard, op.
cit.).
In 1501 he issued an edict ordering
that no book discussing the Christian religion be printed without the written
approval of the local archbishop or "bearing the personal permission and
privilege of the Pope" (Diarium of Burchard, ibid.). This was the
beginning of the Index of Prohibited Books, and the suppression of books
challenging Church dogma soon became official Vatican policy. It was perhaps
the most dramatic form of censorship known to the world, by which the Church
for centuries policed the literature available to the public, and it maintained
official sanction well into the 20th century.
Most Evil Crimes
List of most evil crimes Type Year
Crime Of regular and institutional sodomy and murder of children: (1492 – 1503
CE) That Pope Alexander VI did continue the centuries old Papal and now senior
church tradition of institutional sodomy of children, especially young boys.
Furthermore, that Pope Alexander VI and the Vatican did falsely maintain the
traditional justification of such practice amongst European nobility as an
ancient Greek tradition of homosexuality. Of open moral depravity and indignity
concerning church law : (1492 – 1503 CE)
That Pope Alexander VI did procreate
and produce illegitimate children in support of his own adherence to Papal
traditions in direct and deliberate conflict and heresy to church law.
That Pope Alexander VI did promote
this duplicit and evil behaviour while tens of thousands of innocent people
were burned alive in satanic rituals across Europe for the smallest of
indiscretions and false charges. Of repeated incest : (1492 – 1503 CE)
That Pope Alexander VI did in the
ancient Papal satanic tradition commit repeated rape, incest and occasional
ritualistic murder upon his children, male and female and did father several
illegitimate children by them.
Of publishing a false statement for
the purpose of theft : (1492) America discovered Christopher (Colon) Columbus
discovers San Salvador and begins colonization of New World; Alexander VI
divides Americas between Spain and Portugal.
Of crimes against humanity (1492+)
Columbus 150,000,000 North American Indians are enslaved, exported or killed in
name of Christ over centuries at hands of Spanish and English explorers and
pilgrims.
Of open heresy for the purpose of
promoting the satanic principles of Christianity : (1497 – 1503 CE) That Pope Alexander
VI did bring to the Papal Court the open robes and symbols of Satanism as
standard dress for priests, in direct conflict to the ancient tradition of
hiding such dress from public view. That such open promotion of Satanism did
rally the population against the Papacy as it clearly and directly showed open
heresy and contempt for the churches own teachings.
Of crimes against humanity (1493)
South America Papal bull declares church under King Ferdinand is entitled to
all land in South America: "If the Indians refuse, he may quite legally
fight them, kill them and enslave them, just as Joshua enslaved the inhabitants
of Canaan.
Of crimes against humanity (1493+)
Cortes 30,000,000 Aztecs and Mayans die over years as Spanish conquistadors proselytize
Christian faith. Of crimes against humanity (1497) Florence Priceless
Renaissance art is destroyed after church decides to burn books, ornaments and
musical instruments inconsistent with Christian ideals. Of murder (1498)
Dominican reformer, Savonarola – burner of books & ornaments of 'pagan
immorality' – is himself burned for criticizing the degenerate Pope Alexander
VI.
Of establishing an unlawful
enterprise for the purpose of crime : (1493) That Pope Alexander VI with full
authority as Supreme Pontiff of Christianity did knowingly and deliberately
expand its enterprise of international slave trade controlled through license
by the Roman Catholic Church to legally control the slave trade of the
Caribbean and ensure it maintained control over fees and quotas for the
expanding international slave trade and unknown territories including Asia, the
Americas, but not restricted to India and South East Asia. This this was
accomplished through the Papal Bull Inter caetera issued by Pope Alexander VI
on May 4, 1493, which granted to Spain all lands to the "west and
south" of a meridian 100 leagues (418 km) west of the Azores and the Cape
Verde Islands, at 36°8'W. This bull was silent regarding whether lands to the
east of the line would belong to Portugal, which had only recently reached the
southern tip of Africa (1488) and had not yet reached India (1498). These lands
were "to be discovered" beyond those along the west coast of Africa
as far as Guinea that were given to Portugal via the 1481 bull Aeterni regis,
which had ratified the Treaty of Alcaçovas. Moreover, in the bull Dudum
siquidem dated September 25, 1493 entitled Extension of the Apostolic Grant and
Donation of the Indies, the Pope granted to Spain even those lands in eastern
waters that "at one time or even yet belonged to India." This
nullification of Portugal's aspirations led to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas
between Spain and Portugal, which moved the line a little further west to
39°53'W. Initially, the division line did not explicitly extend around the
globe. Spain and Portugal could pass each other toward the west or east,
respectively, on the other side of the globe and still possess whatever they
were first to discover.
In response to Portugal's discovery
of the Spice Islands in 1512, the Spanish put forward the idea, in 1518, that
Pope Alexander had divided the world into two halves. The antipodal line in the
eastern hemisphere was then established by the Treaty of Saragossa (1529) near
145°E.
Of obtaining property through
deception/extortion : (1500) That Pope Alexander VI during the Jubilee of 1500,
did forge a door and falsely claim it to be holy for the purpose of enticing
more pilgrims to Rome and to pay money to the Vatican.
Of obtaining property through moral
depravity and extortion : (1500-1501) That Pope Alexander VI did order his
representatives to go throughout Europe and offer the selling the indulgences
at a discount: that is, for one-fifth of what a pilgrimage to Rome would have
cost the potential pilgrim buyers. That several Kings and nobles did
participate in this discount mass sale of indulgences, including King Henry
VIII of England, who also shared in the proceeds gained from such fraud.
Of a historic moral depraved event
for the promotion of depravation and Satanism : (1501) That beginning around
October 31, 1501 and lasting for several days that Pope Alexander VI,
Cardinals, Clergy, Nuns and other officials of the Roman Catholic Church did
organize and participate in the largest, most depraved sex orgy ever recorded
in the history of humanity. That the sex orgy for the purpose of promoting
Satanism did involve several hundred people and did involve the ritualistic
murder of a significant number of innocent people including frequent acts of
cannibalism.
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