faith before receiving Holy Communion at 8:00pm. James Francis Edward Stuart, the "Pretender", tried to see the dying pope, however he was denied on the grounds of the dangerous state of the pope's condition. That night, the papal sacristan and the Bishop of Porfirio, Niccolo Agostino degli Abbati Olivieri, Bishop of Porfirio, administered the Extreme Unction. On 19 March, the fever returned violently, and Clement XI slowly lost his ability to speak as his eyes clouded over and his respiration slowly diminished as the pope died just after midday. Contemporary influence In his book "Journal of a Soul", while he was preparing for the Second Vatican Council, Pope John XXIII resolved to pray the Universal Prayer and highly recommended it to others. Construction activity and patronage Pope Clement XI had a famous sundial added in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri and had an obelisk erected in the Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon, and a port built on the Tiber River, the beautiful porto di Ripetta, demolished at the end of the 19th century. He established a committee, overseen by his favourite artists, Carlo Maratta and Carlo Fontana, to commission statuary of the apostles to complete the decoration of San Giovanni in Laterano. He also founded an academy of painting and sculpture on the Campidoglio. He also enriched the Vatican library with numerous Oriental codices and lent his patronage to the first archaeological excavations in the Roman catacombs. In his native Urbino he restored numerous edifices and founded a public library. See also Cardinals created by Clement XI List of popes Notes Sources Italian popes Albani family People from Urbino Arbëreshë people 1649 births 1721 deaths 17th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests Popes Cardinals created by Pope Alexander VIII 18th-century popes Burials at St. Peter's Basilica