Editing Pope Clement XIV (section)

==Death and burial==
[[File:Tomb of Clemens XIV by Antonio Canova.jpg|thumb|right|[[Tomb of Pope Clement XIV]] by [[Antonio Canova]] at Santi Apostoli in Rome ]]
The last months of Clement XIV's life were embittered by his failures and he seemed always to be in sorrow because of this. His work was hardly accomplished before Clement XIV, whose usual constitution was quite vigorous, fell into a languishing sickness, generally attributed to poison.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/latest-news/death-by-poisoning-of-his-holiness-pope-clement-xiv-1-2402306| title =Death by poisoning of His Holiness Pope Clement XIV|newspaper=[[Leeds Intelligencer]]|via=[[The Yorkshire Post]] - On This Day, 15 November 2006|date=15 November 1774| archive-date = 31 December 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191231032815/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/latest-news/death-by-poisoning-of-his-holiness-pope-clement-xiv-1-2402306| url-status = dead}}</ref> No conclusive evidence of poisoning was ever produced. The claims that the Pope was poisoned were denied by those closest to him, and as ''[[The Annual Register]]'' for 1774 stated, he was over 70 and had been in ill health for some time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=XIV |first=Pope Clement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxxKFi6XHlUC&dq=the+last+months+of+pope+clement+xiv&pg=PA233 |title=Interesting Letters of Pope Clement XIV. Ganganelli. To which are Prefixed, Anecdotes of His Life: Translated from the French Edition, Published at Paris by Lottin, Jun. In Four Volumes, ... |date=1812 |publisher=William Baynes |language=en}}</ref>

On 10 September 1774, he was bedridden and received [[Extreme Unction]] on 21 September 1774. It is said that St. [[Alphonsus Liguori]] assisted Clement XIV in his last hours by the gift of [[bilocation]] and was during two days in [[religious ecstasy|extasis]] in his bishopric in [[Arienzo]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scienzadiconfine.eu/mente/bilocazione.html |title=Bilocazione|publisher=Scienza di confine.eu|date=October 2009|accessdate=16 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.coscienza.org/bilocazione/|title=Bilocazione|publisher= Istituto di ricerca della coscienza|date=13 June 2017|accessdate=16 February 2022}}</ref>

Clement XIV died on 22 September 1774, execrated by the [[Ultramontane]] party but widely mourned by his subjects for his popular administration of the Papal States. When his body was opened for the autopsy, the doctors ascribed his death to [[scorbutic]] and [[hemorrhoidal]] dispositions of long standing that were aggravated by excessive labour and the habit of provoking artificial perspiration even in the greatest heat.<ref name="Wilhelm" /> His [[Neoclassicism|Neoclassical]] style tomb was designed and sculpted by [[Antonio Canova]], and it is found in the church of [[Santi Apostoli, Rome]]. To this day, he is best remembered for his suppression of the Jesuits.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vatican City {{!}} History, Map, Flag, Location, Population, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Vatican-City |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

The ''Monthly Review'' spoke highly of Ganganelli.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ePJdAAAAcAAJ&dq=Pope+Clement+XIV&pg=PA531| title = ''The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged'', Volume 56, Porter, 1776, p. 531| year = 1776}}</ref> In a review of a "Sketch of the Life and Government of Pope Clement XIV", the 1786 ''English Review'' said it was clearly written by an ex-Jesuit and noted the malignant characterization of a man it described as "...a liberal, affable, ingenious man; …a politician enlarged in his views, and equally bold and dexterous in the means, by which he executed his designs."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=808JAAAAQAAJ&dq=Pope+Clement+XIV&pg=PA439| title = ''The English Review, Or, An Abstract of English and Foreign Literature'', J. Murray, 1786, p. 440| year = 1786}}</ref>

The 1876 [[Encyclopædia Britannica]] says that:

{{blockquote|[N]o Pope has better merited the title of a virtuous man, or has given a more perfect example of integrity, unselfishness, and aversion to nepotism. Notwithstanding his monastic education, he proved himself a statesman, a scholar, an amateur of physical science, and an accomplished man of the world. As [[Pope Leo X]] (1513–21) indicates the manner in which the Papacy might have been reconciled with [[the Renaissance]] had [[the Reformation]] never taken place, so Ganganelli exemplifies the type of Pope which the modern world might have learned to accept if the movement towards free thought could, as [[Voltaire]] wished, have been confined to the aristocracy of intellect. In both cases the requisite condition was unattainable; neither in the 16th nor in the 18th century has it been practicable to set bounds to the spirit of inquiry otherwise than by fire and sword, and Ganganelli's successors have been driven into assuming a position analogous to that of Popes [[Paul IV]] (1555–59) and [[Pius V]] (1566–72) in the age of the Reformation. The estrangement between the secular and the spiritual authority which Ganganelli strove to avert is now irreparable, and his pontificate remains an exceptional episode in the general history of the Papacy, and a proof how little the logical sequence of events can be modified by the virtues and abilities of an individual.}}

[[Jacques Cretineau-Joly]], however, wrote a critical history of the Pope's administration.