Editing Pope Pius V (section)

==Biography==

===Early life===

Antonio Ghislieri was born 17 January 1504, to Paolo Ghislieri and Domenica Augeri,{{cn|date=January 2025}} in Bosco in the [[Duchy of Milan]] (now [[Bosco Marengo]] in the [[province of Alessandria]],<ref name=book>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LPp63EKb9moC&q=Election+of+Pope+Pius+V&pg=PA1027|author=Fernand Braudel|title=The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II |publisher=[[University of California Press]]|volume=2|page=1027|isbn=978-0-520-20330-3|year=1995|author-link=Fernand Braudel}}</ref> [[Piedmont]]), [[Italy]]. At the age of fourteen he entered the [[Dominican Order]], taking the name ''Michele'', passing from the monastery of [[Voghera]] to that of [[Vigevano]], and thence to [[Bologna]]. Ordained a priest at [[Genoa]] in 1528, he was sent by his order to [[Pavia]], where he lectured for sixteen years. At Parma he advanced thirty propositions in support of the papacy and against [[Protestantism]].

He became master of novices and was on several occasions elected prior of more than one Dominican priory. During a time of great moral laxity, he insisted on discipline, and strove to develop the practice of the monastic virtues. He fasted, did penance, passed long hours of the night in meditation and prayer, traveled on foot without a cloak in deep silence, or only speaking to his companions of the things of God. As his reformist zeal provoked resentment, he was compelled to return to [[Rome]] in 1550, where, after having been employed in several inquisitorial missions, he was appointed to the [[commissariat]] of the [[Holy Office]].

In 1556 he was made [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Nepi-Sutri|Bishop of Sutri]] by [[Pope Paul IV]] and was selected as inquisitor of the faith in Milan and Lombardy. In 1557 he was made a cardinal and named inquisitor general for all Christendom.<ref name=Lataste/> His defense of [[Bartolomé Carranza]], [[Archbishop of Toledo]], who had been suspected of heresy by the [[Spanish Inquisition]], earned him a reprimand from the pope.<ref name=Anderson/>

Under [[Pope Pius IV]] (1559–65) he became [[Bishop of Mondovì]] in [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]. Frequently called to Rome, he displayed his unflinching zeal in all the questions on which he was consulted. Thus he offered opposition to Pius IV when the latter wished to make [[Ferdinando I de' Medici|Ferdinand de' Medici]], then only thirteen years old, a cardinal. His opposition to the pontiff led to his dismissal from the palace and limits being placed on his authority as inquisitor.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaqWAEry-wkC&q=Pope+Pius+V+as+bishop+of+Mondovi&pg=PA220|author=[[Alban Butler]] and Paul Burns|title=Butler's Lives of the Saints: April|publisher=[[Liturgical Press]]|year=1999|page=220|isbn=978-0-8146-2380-0}}</ref>

===Papal election===
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Before Michele Ghislieri could return to his diocese, Pope Pius IV died. On 4 January, a courier from Spain arrived, prompting rumors that King [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] favoured the election of Cardinal Ghislieri. This in turn gave additional momentum to the efforts of Cardinal [[Charles Borromeo]] and his allies, who already supported the candidacy of Ghislieri. As the cardinals conferred with each other more intensely, the number of those who looked to Ghislieri increased, and this led eventually to his election as the new pope on the afternoon of 8 January 1566.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1566.html|title=Sede Vacante 1565-1566|date=26 October 2015|access-date=21 January 2019}}</ref> Ghislieri took the regnal name Pope Pius V.<ref name=book/> He was [[Papal coronation|crowned]] ten days later, on his 62nd birthday, by the protodeacon.

Six weeks after the conclave, Cardinal Borromeo wrote to Cardinal [[Henry, King of Portugal|Henry of Portugal]] recalling the election. He spoke of the new pope, and of his "high esteem for him on account of his singular holiness and zeal", seeing these qualities as a sign that he would make a good pope "to the great satisfaction of all".