Agostino Ciasca

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Agostino Ciasca OESA , baptismal name: Pasquale Raffaele Ciasca (born May 7, 1835 in Polignano a Mare ; † February 6, 1902 in Rome ) was an Italian theologian and Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Pasquale Raffaele Ciasca joined the order of the Augustinian Hermits on March 10, 1856, made profession on March 11, 1857 and was ordained a priest on September 18, 1858 . He attended the Sant'Agostino monastery in Rome (philosophy and theology) and the Santa Monica monastery (Greek and Hebrew scriptures for eight years). He has a PhD in theology and Hebrew .

Pope Leo XIII. entrusted him with some delicate missions. In his order he was, besides being a professor of dogmatic theology, holy scripture and the oriental languages, prefect of studies , general assistant and then general procurator .

In 1866 he received the chair of Hebrew language at the Pontificium Collegium Urbano de Propaganda Fide and later he took part in the First Vatican Council as a theologian and interpreter for the oriental bishops. He also held the following positions: Consultor of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide for the affairs of Oriental rites (1872); Scribe in the Vatican Library for Arabic (1876); Interpreter in the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, ordinary censor of Oriental books and professor of Oriental languages ​​in the Roman seminary (1878); Dean of the Faculties of Theology and Oriental Languages ​​in the same seminary and President of the College of Interpreters in the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (1882) and Consultor of the Holy Office (1889).

The Pope appointed him titular archbishop of Larissa in Syria on June 1, 1891 . He was ordained bishop by the Cardinal Secretary of State , Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro , on June 7th of the same year in Rome; Co- consecrators were Guglielmo Giosafat Giuseppe Pifferi , Sacristan of the Apostolic Palace, and Luigi Sepiacci , OSA, Secretary of the Congregation for Bishops and Regulars . In the same year he was sent to Lviv by the Holy See to preside over the Ruthenian Synod. On September 19, 1892 he was appointed pro-secretary of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide and on June 19, 1893 made its secretary. Leo XIII. took him on June 19, 1899 as a cardinal priest in the college of cardinals and he received the titular church of San Callisto on June 22 of the same year .

He died in Rome in 1902. After being laid out in the Basilica of Sant'Agostino , his body was buried in the chapel of his order in the Campo Verano cemetery. On April 28, 1938, his remains were transferred to the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo .

Services

Between 1885 and 1889, Agostino Ciasca published fragments of a very old Coptic version of the Old Testament from manuscripts in the Borgia collection in the Museo Propaganda Fide in Rome. In 1888 he discovered and edited an Arabic version of Tatian's gospel harmony based on the manuscript Vat. Borg. arab. 250 as well as the Codex Vat. Arab. 14, a text of great importance to the history of the New Testament canon.

Publications

His main works are:

  • Examen critico-apologeticum super constitutionem dogmaticam de Fide Catholica editam in Sessione tertia SS. Oecumenici Concilii Vaticanii. 270 pages 8vo, Rome 1872.
  • I Papiri Copti del Museo della Borgiano SC de Propaganda Fide tradotti e commentati. 55 pages, Rome 1881.
  • Sacrorum Bibliorum fragmenta Copto-Sahidica Borgiani Musei. Vol. I, 225 p. 4to, with 8 plates, Rome 1885 and 1889. These two volumes deal with the Old Testament; vol. III, Handling the New Testament (509 pages with 40 plates) was published in 1904 by Giuseppe Balestri.
  • Tatiani Diatessaron seu Evangeliorum Harmoniae arabice nunc primum ex duplici codicae editit et Latina translatione donavit ... in 4to, 108 pages, Rome 1888.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. C. Peters: Das Diatessaron Tatians. Rome 1939, pp. 19-24.
  2. ^ See M. Maher: Recent Evidence for the authenticity of the Gospel: Tatian's Diatessaron. London, 1903.
predecessor Office successor
Joseph Hergenröther Cardinal
Librarian 1891-1893 		Luigi Galimberti
Andrea Aiuti Secretary of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide
1893–1902 		Camillo Laurenti
personal data
SURNAME Ciasca, Agostino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ciasca, Pasquale Raffaele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theologian and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Polignano a Mare
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1902
Place of death Rome