Virgilio Noè

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Titular Archbishop of Voncaria (1982–91)
  • Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship (1984–88)
  • Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (1988–89)
  • Coadjutor President of the Fabric of Saint Peter (1989–91)
  • Coadjutor Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica (1989–91)
  • President of the Permanent Commission for the Protection of Historical and Artistic Monuments of the Holy See (1989–2003)
  • Coadjutor Vicar General for the Vatican State (1991)
  • Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana (1991–2002)
  • President of the Commission of Cardinals for the Pontifical Shrines (1993–96)
    • Alma materPontifical Gregorian University
    MottoDeus meus misericordia mea
    Coat of armsVirgilio Noè's coat of arms
    Styles of
    Virgilio Noè
    His Eminence
    Spoken styleYour Eminence
    Informal styleCardinal
    SeeVoncaria (Titular)

    Virgilio Noè (30 March 1922 – 24 July 2011) was an

    Italian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal
    . He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1991.

    Early life and ministry

    Noè was born in 1922 in

    Zelata di Bereguardo, Lombardy. He studied at the Seminary of Pavia and was ordained a priest on 1 October 1944 by the Bishop of Pavia
    , Carlo Allorio. After ordination he became parish priest of the parish of San Salvatore in Pavia and founded a youth association to promote participation in the liturgy.

    In 1948, Bishop Allorio sent him to Rome to study at the

    ecclesiastical history in 1952,[citation needed
    ] with a thesis entitled "The Religious Policies of the Lombard Kings".

    He taught

    Eucharistic Congresses
    in 1956 and 1964.

    Activity in Rome

    In the years 1964–1969, starting therefore during the period of the

    Sacred Art at the recently founded Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Sant'Anselmo in the city, and when a commission was formed to revise the papal liturgical celebrations, he was made a member. From 1966 to 1968 he also served as vice-rector of the Pontifical Lombard Seminary in Rome
    .

    When the Sacred

    Congregation's short life came to an end. In the meantime, in 1970, Pope Paul VI appointed him Master of ceremonies, a post now renamed for the first time Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations and which he held until his appointment as a bishop in 1982, when Mons. John Magee
    was appointed to succeed him. In the same period he was chaplain to what is since called the Papal Gendarmeria.

    During his period in the office, the challenge for Mons. Noè was to find ways of apply the governing principles and the practical norms of the new liturgical books that were gradually being revised and published to unique circumstances of the papal liturgy. The papal liturgy is in many respects seen as a model, but is also almost always televised and has some papal rites which in the nature of things are peculiar to it. The results of Mons. Noè's work were considered by traditionalists to be a minimization of proper traditional Catholic rites and detrimental to life of the liturgy.[1] Critics of post-Vatican II reforms denounced alterations to St Peter's Basilica.[2][3] The new papal practice which he established was moderate, sober, and simplified, which some people celebrated and others criticized. The Masses and the more frequent liturgies for beatifications and canonizations, but also the special ceremonies called for by the Jubilee of 1975, the funeral of Paul VI and the inauguration of the pontificates of his successors, were all given a novel and nontraditional shape. The issuing of booklets for the people that were collector's items in their own right became a consolidated practice.

    Throughout this period, Mons. Noè's career then followed the complicated course of successive partial internal organizations of the Roman Curia. When in the summer of 1975 the Sacred

    Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments (Sacra Congregatio de Disciplina Sacramentorum) (founded in 1908 by Pope Pius X) to form a Sacred Congregation for the Sacraments and Divine Worship
    (Sacra Congregatio de Sacramentis et Cultu Divino), Mons. Noè was appointed Undersecretary in charge of liturgical affairs.

    Archbishop and Cardinal

    On 30 January 1982, Noè was appointed Secretary of the

    Voncaria. He was ordained a bishop on 6 March 1982 in St. Peter's Basilica by Pope John Paul II, assisted by Archbishop Eduardo Martínez Somalo
    and Antonio Giuseppe Angioni, Bishop of Pavia.

    Between 1984 and 1988 the dicastery was briefly redivided into the Congregation for the Sacraments (Congregatio de Sacramentis) and the

    Pastor Bonus
    of 1988, this move was reversed and there emerged the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Sacra Congregatio de Cultu Divino de et Disciplina Sacramentorum), which still exists. In this new entity, Archbishop Noè was no longer the sole Archbishop Secretary, but reverted to being once more Archbishop Secretary but in charge of a distinct section for Divine Worship.

    On 15 May 1989, Noè was named Coadjutor Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, giving him the right to succeed the ailing Cardinal

    Fabric of St. Peter,[a]
    a body he could expect to head as Archpriest.

    Noè was made

    Fabric of St. Peter, and Vicar General of Vatican City.[6]

    From 1993 to 1996 he was also President of the Cardinalatial Commission for the Pontifical Shrines of Pompei, Loreto and Bari.

    After 10 years as Cardinal-Deacon, Noè took the option of elevation to the rank of Cardinal-Priest with the

    Regina Apostolorum as of 26 February 2002. He once said that Pope Paul VI spoke of the "smoke of Satan" when referring to priests who celebrated Mass badly.[7]

    Death and Burial

    On 24 July 2011, Cardinal Noè died in Rome at the age of 89.[8] His funeral Mass was celebrated on 26 July 2011 in the apse of St. Peter's Basilica, by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals and concelebrated by a large number of Cardinals and bishops. He is buried in the cemetery of Campo Verano, Rome.

    Notes

    1. ^ The Fabric of St. Peter is not part of the Roman Curia but is "closely associated with the Holy See.[5]

    References

    1. ^ "Abbey Roads: Cardinal Noe dies and no one mourns?". 26 July 2011.
    2. ^ "RORATE CÆLI: Liturgical Renewal at Saint Peter's: How does an altar disappear?".
    3. ^ "The Infiltration of Modernism in the Church".
    4. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXI. 1989. p. 804.
    5. ^ John Paul II (28 June 1988). "Pastor Bonus". Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
    6. ^ Acta Apostolicae Sedis (PDF). Vol. LXXXIII. 1991. p. 631.
    7. ^ Interview with Cardinal Noè: Paul VI's “smoke of Satan” remark concerned liturgy from "What Does The Prayer Really Say?" by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf at PETRUS
    8. ^ "Cardinal, who cared for upkeep of St. Peter's Basilica, other Vatican monuments, dies in Rome". The Washington Post. 24 July 2011.[dead link]

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    Catholic Church titles
    Preceded by Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations
    9 January 1970 – 6 March 1982     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana
    28 June 1991 – 26 February 2002     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by
    Vicar General of His Holiness for the State of Vatican City

    1 July 1991 – 24 April 2002     		Succeeded by
    Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter

    1 July 1991 – 24 April 2002
    President of the Fabric of Saint Peter
    1 July 1991 – 24 April 2002
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