Antonio Matteucci

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Antonio Matteucci (born March 15, 1802 in Fermo , † July 9, 1866 in Rome ) was Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Matteucci, a nephew of Cardinal Cesare Brancadoro on his mother's side , became canon of St. Peter's Basilica in 1820 . Pope Pius VIII awarded him the title of Papal House Prelate in April 1829. From 1833 to 1846 he was prelate of the Council Congregation . After the new Pope Pius IX took office. In 1846 Matteucci, like the latter, spoke out in favor of the formation of a State Council, which, although headed by a priest, should consist of laypeople.

After the patriot Girolamo Simoncelli was sentenced to death in Senigallia on February 17, 1852 , the local bishop Domenico Lucciardi , among others, made a petition for pardon to Pius IX. Matteucci, who had previously reported the trial to the Pope, ordered Simoncelli's execution in August of the same year on papal orders, which was then carried out on October 2, 1852. On April 15, 1853 Pius IX appointed him. Vice- Camerlengo of the Roman Church, which he remained until 1865.

Matteucci's relationship with women was controversial among contemporaries. So he had a lover who was commonly known as Nina Matteucci . Despite these circumstances, Pius IX took him. on June 22, 1866 to the College of Cardinals , after he had moved him to resign from his position as Vice-Camerlengo the previous year. Antonio Matteucci died two weeks after the consistory before he could take possession of his titular deaconry San Giorgio in Velabro . Because of his sudden death, rumors arose of potential poisoning of the cardinal.

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