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The conclave for the election of Pope Leo XIII, Rome, 1878. Preliminaries for the celebration of the conclave in the Vatican. Blocking up of doorways and windows in the Raphael Rooms (Stanze di Raffaello) to seclude the conclave area from the rest of the Vatican. 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.