Editing Pope Urban V (section)

===To Rome and back===

Continued troubles in Italy, as well as pleas from figures such as [[Petrarch]] and [[Bridget of Sweden]], caused Urban V to set out for [[Rome]], only to find that his Vicar, Cardinal Albornoz, had just died.  He conducted the remains of the Cardinal to Assisi, where they were buried in the Basilica of Saint Francis.  The Pope reached the City of Rome on 16 October 1367, the first pope in sixty years to set foot in his own diocese.  He was greeted by the clergy and people with joy, and despite the satisfaction of being attended by the [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Charles IV]] in [[St. Peter's Basilica|St. Peter's]], and of placing the crown upon the head of the [[Elizabeth of Pomerania|Empress Elizabeth]] (1 November 1368),<ref>Richard P. McBrien, ''Lives of the Popes'', 244.</ref> it soon became clear that by changing the seat of his government he had not increased its power. In Rome he was nonetheless able to receive the homage of King [[Peter I of Cyprus]], Queen [[Joan I of Naples]], and the confession of faith by the Byzantine Emperor [[John V Palaeologus]].<ref>Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Vasiliev, ''History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453'', Vol. 2, (University of Wisconsin Press, 1980), 671.</ref>  Bridget of Sweden, who was living in Rome and attempting to get approval for a new religious order,  the [[Bridgettines]],<ref>She had founded a community in Sweden in 1346, but had refused to follow the regulations of the IV Lateran Council, that new orders had to adopt the Rule of some already established Order. Finally, against her wishes, the nuns adopted the Rule of S. Augustine, though [[Pope Urban VI]] in 1378 allowed her rule to be incorporated in the Rule of S. Augustine. {{cite book|author=Philip Sheldrake|title=The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPOft7krR84C&pg=PA157|year=2005|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|location=Westminster KY USA|isbn=978-0-664-23003-6|page=157}}</ref> had actually appeared before the Pope at [[Montefiascone]] in 1370 as he was preparing to return to France, and, in the presence of Cardinal [[Pope Gregory XI|Pierre Roger de Beaufort]], the future pope, predicted the death of the Pope if he should leave Rome.<ref>Chaillan, pp. 197–198.</ref>

Unable any longer to resist the urgency of the French cardinals, and despite several cities of the Papal States still being in revolt, Urban V boarded a ship at [[Corneto]] heading for France on 5 September 1370, arriving back at [[Avignon]] on the 27th of the same month.{{sfn|Rollo-Koster|2008|p=181-182}} A few days later he fell severely ill. Feeling his death approaching, he asked that he might be moved from the Papal Palace to the nearby residence of his brother, [[Angel de Grimoard|Angelic de Grimoard]], whom he had made a cardinal, that he might be close to those he loved.<ref name="americancatholic.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1896 |title=Blessed Pope Urban V |website=Americancatholic.org |access-date=23 June 2013 |archive-date=21 July 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721202022/http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1896 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He died there on 19 December 1370.<ref>Chaillan, pp. 202–204.</ref><ref name="Osborne1991">{{cite journal |last1=Osborne |first1=John |title=Lost Roman Images of Pope Urban V (1362-1370) for Julian Gardner |journal=Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte |date=1991 |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=20–32 |doi=10.2307/1482514 |jstor=1482514 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1482514 |access-date=18 December 2020 |quote=Contemporary sources indicate that, within three days of Urban's death on 19 December 1370, word had begun to spread of miracles secured by his intervention, and those who had obtained his assistance began to bring wax votive images and candles which they deposited at his tomb. In 1372, Urban's remains were transferred from Avignonto the monastery of St. Victor at Marseilles, where he had formerly served as abbot. By this time his cult had become well known in southern France, and large crowds lined the route. Miracles accredited to Urban were soon being recorded in many parts of western Europe, from Flanders and Bohemia in the north, to Spain and Italy in the south, although the majority seem to have taken place in the vicinity of Marseilles, where the relics now reposed.}}</ref> He had been pope for eight years, one month, and nineteen days.<ref>Baluze (1693), I, p. 363.</ref>  His body was initially placed in the Chapel of John XXII in the Cathedral of S. Marie de Domps in Avignon. On 31 May 1371 his remains were transferred to  the monastery of Saint-Victor in Marseille, where he had built a splendid tomb for himself.<ref>Baluze (1693), I, pp. 413 and 417.</ref>