Cheetham Hill, Manchester, 14 November 1852. His parents, Joseph Louis (an optician) and Jane Henrietta Casartelli (Ronchetti), had resided in the area for some time. He was believed to have been considered an intelligent as well as pious child, something which was felt he learned from his mother.[2]
Education
At the age of nine he attended Salford Catholic Grammar School and became fluent in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Whilst there he came under the influence of two masters, Canon Augustus De Clerc and Bruno de Splenter. Louis went on to study at
In 1874 he began specialist theology studies at the University of Louvain, in Belgium,[3] where he also specialised in Eastern languages, an interest first acquired – so he said – through a chance encounter with a book in the Manchester Free Library. He was an avid diary keeper, often writing in several languages on the one page.
Priesthood
Louis was ordained to the priesthood on 10 September 1876 by the then Bishop
Oxford University but although he accepted he was unable to give the lecture due to illness.[2]
Bishop
On 28 August 1903 Louis was appointed Bishop of Salford but wrote to Rome begging to decline. His appeal was rejected and he wrote to Abbot
The poor Catholics of Manchester and Salford took great pride in the appointment, and when charged that nobody with any intelligence could possibly be a Catholic, would reply "Well just look at our Bishop". Bishop Casartelli was one of the first bishops in England to attempt concerted
Royal Asiatic Society which he declares in his diary of the day as "a most astonishing and unexpected honour."[2] He was awarded the Order of Leopold.[3]
Works
La philosophie religieuse du Mazdéisme sous les Sassanides (1884)[4]
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