The Vatican is only one kilometer away from the widest direction from east to west, and it is compressed to more than 800 meters from north to south. The total land area is 0.44 square kilometers, which is not even as large as some of the larger blocks in Berlin.

The status and value of this country are mainly reflected in the spiritual level. It can be said that as long as there is Catholic faith in the world, the holy city of the Vatican will not die.

The real creator of this religious country is Mussolini, the former Italian Prime Minister who had just passed away. He personally signed the Treaty of Latterrand with the Pope, resolving the religious issues left over from the Italian War of Unity, and recognizing the Vatican as an independent state system. In return, Pope Pius XI at that time called Mussolini a "saint" and affirmed the prime minister in terms of religion.

Speaking of the Vatican pope, its roots can be traced back to the time of the Roman Republic. His corresponding identity is the highest priest of Rome. The person who held this position and was the most famous person in later generations was the great Caesar.

After the religious beliefs of the Western Roman Empire changed to Christianity, the high priest also evolved into the Roman Archbishop. The Western Roman Emperor gave him supreme status in the church, and was eventually recognized by the Eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox Church.

Later, due to internal scheming and foreign invasions, the Roman Empire eventually fell apart, but the decline of the empire did not affect the status of Christianity among the people.

Losing the suppression of the Roman emperor, the Pope not only held the divine power, but also directly controlled the huge assets of the church. The authority of the Roman Catholic Church once reached its peak in the Middle Ages. Even the Western kings' wedding and funeral positioning ascended the throne, they had to be blessed and approved by the Pope.

This was also the darkest period in Europe. The church relied on religious authority to impose violent taxes throughout Europe and collect religious taxes. The servants of the gods who ate tremendous taxes could take away the last little property from the peasants without mercy. At the same time, the Holy See frantically cracked down on any ideas that had objections to religion. In the darkest two centuries, the bonfires of the Inquisition had never lacked fuel. I don’t know how many great ideas and technological inventions were sealed and buried by the Holy See as heretics.

The Vatican's previous life was the Pope State, which once occupied one-third of Italy's territory, and this land was legally given by the King of Frank. Does it sound very confusing? If you really talk about it in detail, this story will be long. In order to avoid complaining about the author's watering, I will try to introduce it as simple as possible here.

The land held by the Roman Church at that time was actually a secretly occupied heritage of the Western Roman Empire. It was just that the Western Roman country had fallen and no one was concerned about it. The real power ruler on this land at that time was a branch of Germanic Lombards.

At that time, Pepin, a dwarf in the Frank Kingdom, defeated his brother and seized the authority of the Frank Kingdom. Because of the wrongful position, the dwarf who felt guilty wanted to prove the legitimacy of his throne, invited the Pope of Roman to crown him, trying to add some divinity to the crown. That is, from him, he opened the beginning of the divine authority of the monarch in later generations.

In order to repay the Pope, the Frank Kingdom sent troops to conquer Italy twice, and finally completely defeated the Lombards, who were also a Germanic branch, and gave the seized part of the Italian land to the Roman Catholic Church as a reward. Based on this, the Holy See established the Pope Kingdom, and since then it has called wind and rain on the Apennine Peninsula and studded among the European countries.

However, there is no immortal foundation in the world. By the 19th century, the general trend of Italian national unity was unstoppable. Even Napoleon III, who claimed to be the protector of the Holy See, was unable to stop the demise of the Pope after the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

Emanuele I commanded his troops to occupy all the territory of the Pope. The Pope lost all secular power and could only hide in the Vatican city with the Holy See. The next thing was the confrontation between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy for more than half a century.

It was not until Mussolini came to power, in order to get the support of the church, he negotiated with Pope Pius XI at that time. Finally, the two sides reached a settlement agreement. The Vatican existed as an independent country, and the Vatican's property in Italy was protected and could not be violated by any force.

From the moment the treaty was signed to the day Xu Jun went on a visit, the founding of the Vatican City State was only eleven years old.

The Pope at this time was Pius XII, whose real name was Eugenio Pacelli. Before he ascended the throne, he served as the Holy See's special envoy to European countries for a long time and accumulated rich diplomatic experience. The Vatican's reconciliation treaty with Mussolini was signed under his command. At the same time, he also visited Germany and signed the famous "Imperial Agreement" with the Nazis. Using the condition that the Holy See did not oppose the Nazi Party's grasp of the German regime, the Holy See's power and interests in Germany were preserved.

Pacelli, who had become the Vatican cardinal at that time, saw the crisis that the Holy See would face from the changes in political trends in Germany. The speed of the Nazi Party's development made him scared, so the cardinal believed that the Vatican must sign an agreement with this tough dictator so that the Vatican's interests in Germany could be maintained.

But what the church did not expect was that after the Nazis were full of wings, Hitler tore up the agreement directly, and then something that worried the Holy See happened.

In fact, before Hitler came to power, he had already thought about letting the German Catholic Church break away from the control of the Roman Catholic Church, so that the Nazi Party could take this opportunity to ultimately grasp the religious rights of the entire Germany.

Less than three years after the contract was signed, the Nazis began to put pressure on the German Catholic Church, not only forcing religious people to swear allegiance to the head of state, but also began to arrest anti-Nazis in the church, and at the same time stepped up persecution of non-Germanic Catholics.

This behavior of killing donkeys immediately touched the reverse scales of the Roman Church. So the Pope Pius XI at that time began to publicly criticize the Nazi Party, which resulted in a serious confrontation between the Nazi Party and the Catholic Church during that period.

Hitler was very clear about the power of religion. There may be many atheists in Germany, but most of the Germans are very devout believers. It has to be said that the Vatican attitude has indeed caused some damage to the foundation of the Nazi Party in the German people.

Of course, Hitler would not blame his decision. Instead, he believed that as the pope's chief diplomatic adviser, Cardinal Pacelli was behind the rebellion between the Holy See and Germany. So when Pacelli ran for the Pope, Germany expressed clear opposition.

However, Germany was not strong at that time, and the head of state was not that long, and it could not exert any influence on the elections of the Roman Catholic Church. In the end, Pacelli was elected as the 260th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Then an interesting thing happened. After the pope ascended the throne, the Holy See's criticism of Germany came to an abrupt end. The relationship between the two sides showed signs of easing. This sudden change in style even caused the German side to lose glasses all over the floor.

Pius XII was a shrewd pope, and his diplomatic skills were more sleek than his predecessors. He had long known the German head of state's determination to revive Germany, and also knew what the appeasement policy of Britain and France would eventually lead to. He had to consider the Holy See's attitude towards Germany. It would be a wise decision to be an enemy of Germany at this time.

Although the Nazi Party violated the power given to the Holy See by God, it also saw that the Nazis were beneficial to the Holy See, that is, the head of state who held the actual power of Germany was crazy hostile to the Jews from the bottom of their bones.

Using state power to crack down on and suppress Judaism is the most popular thing since the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church.

The faith struggle between Western religions has always been full of cruelty and blood. The Jewish nation, which has adhered to Jewish doctrine for thousands of years, has always been regarded by the Holy See as the most insidious enemy of Catholicism.

This is also one of the reasons why the Holy See clearly in history that the Holy See had a large number of reports of Jewish massacres but had always pretended to be nothing. At the same time, there is some evidence that the Holy See even participated in the German persecution of Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union. Because in the eyes of the Holy See, the Orthodox Church of the same lineage was even more threatening than the pagans. And vice versa, in order to seize the so-called orthodoxism, once these two families find that there is an opportunity to hit each other, they will never be soft-hearted when they start. If there is anything else in this world that can make them reach a consensus, it is how to deal with those Jews.

Pius XII once visited Germany and met a bunch of Nazi giants. Of course, this "Apostle of God" would not be missing. Hitler's most capable little friend, the deputy head of the Nazi Party, and the young Lord Reinhart von Steed.

But at that time, Jack was a biochemical man who smuggled from the future. To be honest, the deputy head of state did not leave much impression on the future pope except for his amazing appearance. Before Xu Jun replaced Jack, the deputy head of state had no sense of existence in the outside world.

Pius XII never expected Hitler to be finished so soon, let alone the one who replaced this strong man was the blonde deputy head of state who had been huddling behind Hitler.

Standing in the center of St. Peter's Square, Pius XII looked around the bishops, and then looked at the SS soldiers standing with guns around the colonnade. His Majesty the Pope sighed secretly, clasped the long handle of the cross staff, and stroked the white wool shawl strap on his chest.

At this time, a crowd in the distance made a noise. The Pope looked up and saw a majestic convoy driving towards him along the famous Concorde Street.
Chapter completed!