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TIL that shortly after WW1 started, Pope Pius X "The Pontiff Supreme " and the Black Pope died within hours of each other. The Black Pope was Francis Xavier Wernz General of the Jesuits. The Black Pope got its name from robes that the Society of Jesus (aka Jesuits) members wear

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