{"id":84791,"date":"2026-07-24T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84791"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:35:48","slug":"here-was-popes-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/here-was-popes-executioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Was Pope&#8217;s Executioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Giovanni Battista Bugatti was the official executioner of the Vatican for more than 60 years, from 1796 to 1864.<\/p>\n<p>He gave people a pinch of tobacco as a small, final earthly comfort just before the execution.<\/p>\n<p>He was respected and feared in Rome, and he only crossed the Tiber\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LCC7xjjHWy\">pic.twitter.com\/LCC7xjjHWy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trad West (@trad_west_) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/trad_west_\/status\/2080388995364573617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni Battista Bugatti was the official executioner of the Vatican for more than 60 years, from 1796 to 1864. He.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84792,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84791\/revisions\/84792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}