His enemies in the army, chiefly the horsemen, reached Syracuse before him, plundered his house, and horribly maltreated his wife.
Threatened, but not maltreated, the pope had remained three days under arrest when the citizens of Anagni freed him.
In the former woman appears as the serpent whose trail is over all; in the latter, written twenty-five years after the event, she is the guardian angel abused and maltreated by men.
He died in November 1655 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, but his body was exhumed and maltreated at the Restoration.
He sought refuge in a house in the Riddarhus Square, but the mob rushed after him, brutally maltreated him and tore his robes to pieces.
