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During the revolution in Italy, Pope Pius IX was forced to flee the Vatican. Why?

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If you are referring to the fleeing from 1848, he did it because there were rising Italian nationalist threats that resulted in assassinations and terrorist attacks, which is why he escaped temporarily to hide.
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