Editing Pope Sixtus V (section)

===Election as pope===
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[[File:His Holiness Pope Sixtus V Pietro Fachetti.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Portrait of Sixtus V in the [[Vatican Museums]]]]
Though not neglecting to follow the course of affairs, Felice carefully avoided every occasion of offence. This discretion contributed not a little to his election to the papacy on 24 April 1585, with the title of Sixtus V to honour [[Pope Sixtus IV]], also a Franciscan like himself. One of the things that commended his candidacy to certain cardinals may have been his physical vigour, which seemed to promise a long pontificate.<ref name=EB1911/> His [[papal coronation]] was held on 1 May 1585 and he was crowned by the [[protodeacon]] [[Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany|Ferdinando de' Medici]].