Luigi Tripepi
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Cardinal-Deacon | |
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| Born | Luigi Tripepi 21 June 1836 |
| Died | 29 December 1906 (aged 70) Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
| Parents | Antonino Tripepi Margherita Manuardi |
| Previous post(s) | Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives (1892-94) Secretary of the Congregation for Rites (1894-96) Substitute for General Affairs (1896-1901) Prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Sacred Relics (1903-04) |
| Alma mater | Pontifical Roman Major Seminary |
Luigi Tripepi (21 June 1836 – 29 December 1906) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and poet. He was one of the most important
Roman Catholic apologists
of the 19th century.
Biography
He was born in Cardeto, a small town in the province of Reggio Calabria, in the deepest south of Italy.
He studied at the local
ecclesiastical history, apologetics
as well as poetry in Greek, Latin and Italian.
Originally a
Substitute of the Secretariat of State (1896). He was created Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria in Domnica by Pope Leo XIII on 15 April 1901. He was later also prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Sacred Relics, president of the Academy of the Catholic Religion and pro-prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites
.
Tripepi died in Rome in 1906. He was buried in the chapel of the chapter of the Vatican Basilica in the Campo Verano Cemetery, Rome. In October 1993 his remains were moved to Mallemace, near Cardeto, and placed in a little mausoleum named after him and built close to a famous sanctuary dedicated to the Holy Mother of Jesus, Madonna Assunta di Mallemace, to whom he was devoted since childhood.
References
Sources
- Rodà, Massimo (1996-06-21). "Il cardinale Luigi Tripepi, bibliotecario di Cristo, pose la sua cultura al servizio della Chiesa". L'osservatore Romano. Rome.
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