The Secret Word

Play along with us as you learn more about the history of the Cathedral!
Look for all six QR codes scattered on the path around the Cathedral and listen to the audio all the way through.
You’ll be asked a question at the end of each track. Find the correct answer and memorise the first letter of each one.
You’ll need all six letters to form the Secret Word. If you can figure it out, a special prize awaits you at the Cathedral Museum Bookshop!

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6. The Canon’s Garden and the Places of the Anagni Slap

If you’ve come to visit the Cathedral, you’ve probably already heard something about the ’Anagni slap’, which is not only an expression, but a real historical event that involved Pope Boniface the 8th in the context of the places you are visiting. You are near the Canon’s Garden, where historical sources mention the existence of a canonry and the bishop’s palace. The decals will help you to reconstruct the position of these structures, of which hardly any ruins remain.But above all, this is where it happened!
It was 1303 and Pope Boniface was facing a struggle with the king of France, Philip the Fair, to reaffirm the superiority of papal power over the sovereign’s secular authority. Warned of an impending excommunication, King Philip sent a handful of soldiers to Anagni, led by his ambassador William of Nogaret. They were joined by Sciarra Colonna, a member of Boniface’s quintessential rival family. After a brief siege, on the 7th of September the soldiers entered the Cathedral, passing through this cloister to reach the papal rooms. Boniface was there waiting for them, seated on the papal throne. Even Dante in the Divine Comedy recalls the resounding event with this verse:
‘I see the fleur-de-lis entering Alagna, and in his Vicar Christ made captive’.
What followed has become somewhat blurred in the legend. While some historians speak of a moral offence for the Pope, others believe that Sciarra Colonna dared to slap the holy pontiff himself. However, one thing is certain: that day, Boniface was quite displeased to turn the other cheek! Whether the slap was real or metaphorical, nothing was the same after that. From this event on, the progressive decline of the papacy political influence and the consolidation of the European monarchies power began precisely from Anagni. 

We’ve reached the last question:
What is the first name of the Colonna responsible for the famous slap?
Remember to memorise the first letter of the answer!

If you have listened to all six audio tracks on this path, all you need to do now is form the secret word using the first letter of each answer, and head to the Bookshop.  If not, look for the other spots scattered around the Cathedral!

Need another clue to guess the secret word? Who is carrying the pastoral staff?