Arcadio Larraona Saralegui

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Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare
  • Sapienza University of Rome
  • Pontifical Gregorian University
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    Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui,

    Sacred Congregation of Rites
    from 1962 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1959.

    Biography

    Larraona Saralegui was born in

    University of Rome
    .

    At his alma mater of the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apoillinare, he was made professor of institutions and history of civil law in 1919, and later served as professor of

    Sacred Congregation of Religious
    on 3 December of that same year.

    He was made

    Sacred Congregation of Rites and, in preparation of the Second Vatican Council
    , president of the Pontifical Commission of the Sacred Liturgy.

    Cardinal Larraona Saralegui was appointed

    1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI. Larraona Saralegui, who had acquired the reputation of being sternly conservative,[2] was cardinal protodeacon, or the most senior cardinal-deacon, from 26 June 1967 to 28 April 1969. He resigned as prefect of rites on 9 January 1968, and later exercised his right as a cardinal-deacon of ten years' standing to become a cardinal-priest (receiving the title of S. Cuore di Maria in the consistory
    of 28 April 1969).

    Cardinal Larraona Saralegui died on 7 May 1973 at 10:10 am after a six-day broncho pulmonary infection in the Roman headquarters of the Claretians, at age 85. He is buried in the chapel of S. Giuseppe in the basilica of Sacro Cuore di Maria, according to his will.

    Trivia

    • He participated in the preparation of the 1917
      Code of Canon Law
      .
    • While a priest, he also taught at the
      Pontifical Urbaniana University
      and the "Scuola Pratica" of the Sacred Congregation of Religious.
    • Larraona Saralegui prepared the particular law of his congregation at its general chapter in 1922.
    • He collaborated in the preparation of the apostolic constitutions "Provida Mater Ecclesia" of 2 February 1947; "Sponsa Christi" of 21 November 1950; and "Sedes Sapientiæ of 31 May 1956.
    • Before dying he received a
      papal blessing
      .
    • During his body's exposition in the chapel of Collegio Claretianum on
      religious
      .
    • A street in Pamplona, the capital city of Navarre, is named after him.

    References

    1. ^ Time. "Eight New Hats". 30 November 1959.
    2. ^ Time. "Changing the Old Guard". 19 January 1968.

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    Catholic Church titles
    Preceded by Major Penitentiary
    1961–1962
    Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites

    1962–1968
    Succeeded by
    OSB
    Preceded by Cardinal Protodeacon
    1967–1969
    Succeeded by
    William Theodore Heard