The Vatican is only one kilometer away from its widest point in the east-west direction, and it is even more than 800 meters in the north-south direction, with a total land area of 0.44 square kilometers, which is not even comparable to some larger neighborhoods in Berlin.

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

To say that the real founder of this religious country is the former Italian Prime Minister Mussolini, who died not long ago, it was he who personally signed the [Lateran Treaty] with the Pope, which solved the religious problems left over from the Italian Unification War and recognized the Vatican as an independent state of government.

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

After the religious beliefs of the Western Roman Empire were converted to Christianity, the high priest also evolved into the Archbishop of Rome, and the Western Roman Emperor gave him supremacy in the Church, which was eventually recognized by the Eastern Roman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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

Without 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 Holy See, once reached its peak in the Middle Ages, and even the wedding and funeral positioning of Western kings to ascend the throne must be blessed and approved by the Pope.

It was also one of the darkest periods in Europe, when the Church, relying on its religious authority, extorted extortions throughout Europe, and the servants of the gods, who collected religious taxes, were able to take away the last bit of property from the peasants without mercy. At the same time, the Holy See frantically cracked down on any thought that dissented from religion, and in the darkest two centuries, the bonfires of the Inquisition never lacked fuel, and I don't know how many great ideas and technological inventions were sealed and buried by the Holy See as hereticals.

In its previous life, the Vatican was the Papal States, which once occupied one-third of Italy's territory, but this land was legally gifted by the Frankish kings. Doesn't it sound confusing, but if you really tell it in detail, this story will be long, so in order to avoid anyone complaining about the author's watering, I'll try to introduce it briefly here.

The land controlled by the Holy See at that time was actually the inheritance of the Western Roman Empire that was secretly occupied, but the Western Romans had already died and no one cared about them, and the real rulers of this land at that time were the Lombards, a branch of the Germanic people.

At that time, Pepin, the dwarf of the Frankish kingdom, defeated his brother and seized the authority of the Frankish kingdom, because the throne was a little wrong, and the dwarf who felt weak in his heart in order to prove the legitimacy of his throne, he invited the Pope of Rome to crown him, trying to add some divinity to the crown, that is, starting from him, opening the beginning of the divine right of kings in later generations.

In order to reward the Pope, the Frankish Kingdom sent troops to conquer Italy twice, and finally completely defeated the Lombards, who also belonged to the Germanic branch, and gave some of the captured Italian land to the Holy See as a reward. On this basis, the Holy See established the Papal States, which have since been the Apennine Peninsula and the countries of Europe.

However, there is no such thing as an eternal foundation, and by the nineteenth century, the unification of the Italian nation was unstoppable, and even Napoleon III, the self-proclaimed protector of the Holy See, was powerless to prevent the fall of the Papal States after his defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

Emanuele I commanded his troops to occupy all the territories of the Papal States, and the Pope lost all secular power and had to take refuge in Vatican City with the Holy See, and the confrontation between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Italy ensued for more than half a century.

It was not until Mussolini came to power that he negotiated with Pope Pius XI in order to gain the support of the Church, and finally the two sides reached a settlement agreement, the Vatican existed as an independent state, and the property of the Holy See in Italy was protected from any force.

From the moment the treaty was signed to the date of Xu Jun's visit, the founding time of the Vatican City State was only 11 years.

The pope at this time was Pius XII, whose real name was Eugenio. Before succeeding to the throne, Pacelli served as the special envoy of the Holy See to European countries for a long time, and accumulated very rich diplomatic experience, the Vatican and Mussolini The treaty of reconciliation was signed under his hands, and at the same time, he also visited Germany and signed the famous "Imperial Pact" with the Nazis, with the Holy See not opposing the Nazi Party's control of German power as a condition, and preserved the power and interests of the Holy See in Germany.

Pacelli, who had become a cardinal of the Vatican at that time, saw the crisis that the Holy See would face from the changing political winds in Germany, and the speed of the development of the Nazi Party frightened him, so the cardinal believed that the Vatican must sign an agreement with this hard-line dictator so that the interests of the Holy See in Germany could be safeguarded.

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

In fact, before Hitler came to power, he had already thought about breaking the Catholic Church in Germany from the control of the Holy See, so that the Nazi Party could take this as an opportunity to finally control the religious rights of the whole of Germany.

Less than three years after the treaty was signed, the Nazis began to exert pressure on the Catholic Church in Germany, forcing religious figures to swear allegiance to the Führer. He also began to arrest anti-Nazi elements in the Church and to persecute non-Germanic Catholics.

This act of killing the donkey immediately touched the scale of the Roman Church, so that the then Pope Pius XI began to openly attack the Nazi Party, which resulted in a serious confrontation between the Nazi Party and the Catholic Church during that time.

Hitler was well aware of the power of religion, and there may have been many atheists in Germany, but most Germans were very devout believers, and I have to say the attitude of the Vatican. It did cause some damage to the Nazi Party's civil base in Germany.

Hitler, of course, did not blame his own decision, but believed that Cardinal Pacelli, as the Pope's chief diplomatic adviser, was behind the Holy See's turn against Germany, so when Pacelli ran for the Pope, the German side expressed clear opposition.

It's just that at that time, Germany's strength was not strong, and the Führer's hand was not so long, so he could not exert any influence on the election of the Holy See, and finally Pacelli was elected as the 260th pope of the Catholic Church.

Then something interesting happened, and after the pope succeeded to the throne, the Holy See's criticism of Germany came to an abrupt end, and the relationship between the two sides showed signs of easing.

Pius XII was a shrewd pope, and his diplomatic skills were more skilful than those of his predecessors. He had long understood the German Führer's determination to revive Germany, and he also knew what the Anglo-French policy of appeasement would eventually become. He had to consider the attitude of the Holy See towards Germany, and whether it was a wise decision to be an enemy of Germany at such a time.

Although the Nazis violated the power given to the Holy See, he also saw the Nazis in favor of the Holy See, that is, the Führer, who held the actual power in Germany, was insanely hostile to the Jews from the bottom of his bones.

The use of state power to crack down on and suppress Judaism has been the most popular thing since the establishment of the Holy See.

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

This is one of the reasons why the Holy See has always pretended to be indifferent despite the fact that it has a large number of reports of the Jewish Holocaust in its hands, and there is some evidence that the Holy See was even involved in the persecution of the Orthodox Church in the Soviet Union by the German army. Because in the eyes of the Holy See, the Orthodox Church, which is of the same origin, is even more threatening than the infidels. And vice versa, in order to snatch the so-called legitimacy, once these two families find that there is an opportunity to hit each other, they will definitely not relent. If there's anything else in the world that they can agree on, it's how to clean up those Jews.

Pius XII had visited Germany and met a bunch of Nazi giants, but of course this "apostle of God", Hitler's most capable little friend and deputy head of the Nazi Party, the young Reinhardt. Feng. Your Excellency Stadt.

It's just that he was met by Jack, a cyborg smuggled in from the future. To tell the truth, at that time, in addition to his amazing appearance, the deputy head of state did not make much impression on the future pope, and before Xu Jun replaced Jack, the deputy head of state had no sense of existence in the outside world.

Pius XII never imagined that Hitler would be finished so quickly, let alone that the strongman would be replaced by the blonde deputy Führer, who had been huddled behind Hitler.

Standing in the middle of St. Peter's Square, Pius XII glanced around at the bishops around him, and then at the SS soldiers standing with guns around the colonnade, His Majesty the Pope sighed secretly, tightened the handle of the scepter of the cross, and stroked the white wool shawl strap on his chest.

At this moment, there was a commotion from the crowd in the distance, and the Pope looked up to see a majestic motorcade approaching him along the famous Avenue de la Concorde.

PS: It's okay to see the time, it's not eleven o'clock, thank you for your understanding.