Editing Pope Pius VII (section)

===Death and burial===
In 1822, Pius VII reached his 80th birthday and his health was visibly declining. On 6 July 1823, he [[hip fracture|fractured his hip]] in a fall in the papal apartments and was bedridden from that point onward. In his final weeks he would often lose consciousness and would mutter the names of the cities that he had been ferried away to by the French forces. With the [[Cardinal Secretary of State]] [[Ercole Consalvi]] at his side, Pius VII died on 20 August at 5 a.m.<ref>{{cite book |title=Italy in the Age of the Risorgimento 1790 - 1870 |first=Harry |last=Hearder |publisher=Routledge  |year=2013 |page=104 }}</ref>

He was briefly interred in the [[Vatican Grottoes]] but was later buried in a monument in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] after his funeral on 25 August.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pope Pius VII|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12132a.htm|access-date=22 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CHIARAMONTI, O.S.B.Cas., Gregorio Barnaba (1742-1823)|url=http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1785.htm#Chiaramonti|access-date=4 February 2014|archive-date=2 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202223127/http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1785.htm#Chiaramonti|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Image:Grab Pius VII.jpg|thumb|left|175px|The tomb of Pius VII in Saint Peter's Basilica]]