Hunted almost to extinction at the beginning of the 20th Century, the species of goat-antelope was reintroduced to the Majella in the 1990s and now successfully breeds there.
But he broke hearts in 2002 when he married Majella McLennan in a ceremony in his native county, and hundreds of his music lovers lined the streets outside the church.
But he was so miserable as Pope Celestine V that he abdicated after five months, returned to the Majella region and was later arrested by his successor, Boniface VIII (presumably to get rid of him) and died in prison less than a year later.