Conclave -2024-2024 ❲2026 Edition❳

The title card fades: — One year, one week, one miracle.

Rome, January 15, 2024. Pope Innocent XIV dies of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. The Vatican announces a conclave to begin in fifteen days, as tradition dictates. But hidden deep in the Apostolic Archives is a document last touched in 1799: the Edict of Urgency , proclaimed during the Napoleonic chaos. It states: if a pope dies in a leap year before February 29, the conclave must conclude by midnight on February 28, or the election is void, and the Holy See remains vacant for ten years. Conclave -2024-2024

“Ego eligitur in Summum Pontificem… Cardinalis Maria Chiara Lombardi.” The title card fades: — One year, one week, one miracle

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