1 Grosso - Clement XIV

Clement XIV's pontificate was defined almost entirely by a single act: the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, under sustained pressure from the Bourbon courts of France, Spain, and Naples. The brief Dominus ac Redemptor dissolved an order of roughly 23,000 members and triggered Clement's rapid physical decline — he died the following year, widely believed at the time to have been poisoned, though no credible evidence has ever confirmed it.