 On 6 July 1823, he fractured his hip in a fall in the papal apartments and was bedridden from that point onward.In his final weeks he would often lose consciousness and would mutter the names of the cities that he had been ferried away to by the French forces.With the Cardinal Secretary of State Ercole Consalvi at his side, Pius VII succumbed to his injury on 20 August at 5 a.m.