Editing Pope Celestine V (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:San Pedro Celestino, papa, de Bartolomé Román (Museo del Prado).jpg|thumb|Portrait of Celestine by Bartolomé Román]]

Most modern interest in Celestine V has focused on his resignation.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3350359/Cardinal-hints-that-ailing-Pope-may-resign.html | title = Cardinal hints that ailing Pope may resign | first = Bruce | last = Johnston | author2 = Jonathan Petre | work = The Telegraph|location=London | date = 8 February 2005}}</ref> He was the first pope to formalize the resignation process and is often said to have been the first to resign; in fact he was preceded in this by [[Pope Pontian|Pontian]] (235), [[John XVIII]] (1009), [[Benedict IX]] (1045), and [[Pope Gregory VI|Gregory VI]] (1046).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.history.com/news/a-history-of-papal-resignations |title=A History of Papal Resignations |publisher=History.com |date=2013-02-11 |access-date=2013-06-25}}</ref> As noted above, Celestine's own decision was brought about by mild pressure from the Church establishment. His reinstitution of Gregory X's conclave system established by the papal bull ''[[Ubi periculum]]'' has been respected ever since.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

A 1966 visit by [[Pope Paul VI]] to Celestine's place of death in Ferentino along with his speech in homage of Celestine prompted speculation that the Pontiff was considering retirement.<ref>Cf. [https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/speeches/1966/documents/hf_p-vi_spe_19660901_s-celestino-v_it.html Pope Paul VI's speech of 1 September 1966]</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836464,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080220090842/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836464,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 20 February 2008 | title = Roman Catholicism: Retirement for 200 Bishops | work = Time Magazine | date = 30 September 1966 | access-date =19 May 2011}}</ref>

Celestine's remains survived the [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake]] with one Italian spokesman saying it was "another great miracle by the pope".<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/09/Popes-bones-survive-earthquake/UPI-18401239303447/ | date = 9 April 2009 | access-date =19 May 2011 | publisher = United Press International | title = Pope's bones survive earthquake}}</ref> They were then recovered from the basilica shortly after the earthquake.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/14/italian-earthquake-damage | title = Italy earthquake focus shifts to saving Abruzzo's heritage | first = Tom | last = Kington | work = The Guardian | date = 14 April 2009 | access-date =19 May 2011}}</ref> While inspecting the earthquake damage during a 28 April 2009 visit to the Aquila, [[Pope Benedict XVI]] visited Celestine's remains in the badly damaged Santa Maria di Collemaggio and left the woolen [[pallium]] he wore during his papal inauguration in April 2005 on his glass casket as a gift.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6184757.ece | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110604182918/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6184757.ece | url-status = dead | archive-date = 4 June 2011 | title = Pope Benedict XVI visits Abruzzo earthquake zone to pray for victims | first=Richard | last = Owen | work = The Times | date = 28 April 2009 | access-date =19 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/world/europe/29pope.html| title = Pope visits devastated earthquake zone | first=Rachel | last = Donadio | work = The New York Times | date = 28 April 2009 | access-date =25 February 2013}}</ref> Benedict XVI would go on to become the first pope since Celestine to voluntarily resign of his own initiative.<ref name=DeSouza/>

To mark the 800th anniversary of Celestine's birth, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed the Celestine year from 28 August 2009 through 29 August 2010.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/card-bertone/2009/documents/rc_seg-st_20090828_anno-celestiniano_it.html | title = Homily of Card. Tarcisio Bertone for the opening of the Holy Door on the occasion of the Feast of Celestinian Forgiveness and the beginning of the Celestinian Year | publisher = The Roman Curia | language = it | date = 28 August 2009 | access-date =19 May 2011}}</ref> Benedict XVI visited the [[Sulmona Cathedral]], near Aquila, on 4 July 2010<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.romereports.com/palio/benedict-xvi-praised-courage-of-celestine-v-another-pope-who-resigned-english-9014.html| title = Benedict Praised courage of Celestine V, another Pope who resigned| publisher = Rome Reports| date = 12 February 2013| access-date = 25 February 2013| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130217232130/http://www.romereports.com/palio/benedict-xvi-praised-courage-of-celestine-v-another-pope-who-resigned-english-9014.html| archive-date = 17 February 2013}}</ref> as part of his observance of the Celestine year and prayed before the altar consecrated by Celestine containing his relics on 10 October 1294.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/travels/2010/documents/trav_ben-xvi_sulmona_20100704_en.html | title = Pastoral Visit to Sulmona | publisher = The Roman Curia | date = 4 July 2010 | access-date = 15 February 2013}}</ref>

His entry in the ''[[Martyrologium Romanum]]'' for 19 May reads as follows:

{{blockquote|''Ad Castrum Fumorense prop Alatrium in Latio, natalis sancti Petri Caelestini, qui, cum vitam eremeticam in Aprutio ageret, fama sanctitatis et miraculorum clarus, octogenarius Romanus Pontifex electus est, assumpto nomine Caelestini Quinti, sed eodem anno munere se abdicavit et solitudinem recedere maluit.''}}

{{blockquote|At ''Castrum Fumorense'' near [[Alatri]] in [[Lazio]], the birth of Saint Peter Celestine, who, when leading the life of a hermit in Abruzzo, being famous for his sanctity and miracles, was elected Roman Pontiff as an octogenarian, assumed the name Celestine V, but abandoned his office that same year and preferred to return to solitude.}}