Poisoned Power in the Vatican

He wore the cross on his finger— and death beneath it. During the Renaissance,

the Vatican wasn’t just a church— it was a battlefield in silk robes. Cardinals and popes

fought not with swords, but with poison. (follow us now.) Rumors spread of

rings with hollow seals, filled with deadly powder— one handshake,

one sip of wine, and the rival was gone. The Borgia family—especially Pope Alexander VI

and his son Cesare— were whispered to have perfected the art. Their victims?

Anyone standing between them and absolute power. Follow for more unholy secrets of

the Vatican. They ruled with scripture by day— and poison by night.