The conclave for the election of Pope Leo XIII, Rome, 1878. Voting in the Sistine Chapel, (Michelangelo's Last Judgement fresco on the far wall). A conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals convened to appoint the pope of the Catholic Church. Leo XIII (1810-1903) was pope from 1878 until his death in 1903. From "La Ilustración Española y Americana", 1878.
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