The only Leap Year Pope is Pope Paul III, born on Italy on February 29, 1468.
Pope Paul III set up a council to study problems in the church. The report, Consilium de emendenda ecclesia, formed the basis for the work of the upcoming Council of Trent. This report also came into the hands of the Protestant opposition, who used its criticisms to bolster their own attack on the Catholic Church
Pope Paul III convenved the Council of Trent in 1545
The Council of Trent was perhaps one of the most important events in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, which shaped its direction for at least the next 300 years.
As a patron of the arts, he oversaw completion of Michelangelo's fresco the Last Judgment, depicting the Second Coming of Christ and the final judgment by God.
Pope Paul III established in 1549, the religious order, the Society of Jesus, known as Jesuits, of which Pope Francis is a member of.He also approved the Spiritual Exercises developed by St. Ignatius Loyola, which includes meditations, prayers and Contemplative practices to deepen one's relationship with God.
Pope Paul III died in 1549 and is buried in a tomb designed by Michelangelo.
The Catholic Catechism
(2502) teaches art is true and beautiful when its form corresponds to its particular vocation: evoking and glorifying, in faith and adoration, the transcendent mystery of God - the surpassing invisible beauty of truth and love visible in Christ, who "reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature," in whom "the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily." This spiritual beauty of God is reflected in the most holy Virgin Mother of God, the angels, and saints. Genuine sacred art draws man to adoration, to prayer, and to the love of God, Creator and Savior, the Holy One and Sanctifier.
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