Belisario Cristaldi

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Belisario Cristaldi (born July 11, 1764 in Rome , † February 25, 1831 there ) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Youth and education

He was the youngest child and the only son of Ascanio Cristaldi, Baron von Noha, and his wife Marianna Guglielmi. Belisario Cristaldi studied philosophy at the Collegio Romano, later at the University of La Sapienza , where he received his doctorate in 1787 or 1788 as Doctor iuris utriusque . He continued his legal training at the Roman Rota and was an auditor under Cardinal Giulio Maria della Somaglia .

Career as an administrative officer

On June 1, 1798, during the French occupation of Rome, he became director of the Tata Giovanni orphanage after the death of the founder Giovanni Borgi . In the autumn of 1799 he became pro-secretary, later assessor, of the provisional council set up by the Neapolitan authorities. Together with the nobles Pietro Gabrielli and Camillo Massimo he was in April 1800 member of a delegation of the city of Rome to Venice for the newly elected Pope Pius VII. About the same time he was Konsistorialadvokat and ordered on 19 December 1800 for arms attorney in fact, he held this position already since October 4, 1799.

During the Napoleonic occupation, Belisario Cristaldi resigned from all his posts, he was expelled from Rome by the French in October 1813 and banished to Bologna. After the restoration of the Papal States, he was appointed a member of the Commissione di Stato founded by Agostino Rivarola on May 11, 1814 , where he performed all the tasks of the Congregation for the Administration of Goods. On May 15 of the same year, he became a member of the Church Property Commission. Pope Pius VII appointed him papal house prelate on June 19, 1814 , and on the same day he became fiscal advocate of the Apostolic Chamber and advocate of the people of Rome. Belisario Cristaldi received the tonsure on September 25, 1814 and was thus a cleric . In July 1815, he and Cardinal Ercole Consalvi participated in the preparations for the restoration of papal rule in the provinces di seconda recupera , the Marches and the legations . He was also from around July 1816 a member of the commission for the codification of a new criminal procedure law . From the autumn of 1817 until his ascension as cardinal he was rector of La Sapienza University.

Spiritual offices

To canons of the Vatican Basilica , he was elected in 1818, on 4 June 1820, he was treasurer of the Apostolic Chamber .

Pope Leo XII. created him in the consistory of October 2, 1826 as cardinal in pectore , this was announced in the consistory of December 15, 1828. Belisario Cristaldi received the cardinal's hat and the title of cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Portico Campitelli on May 21, 1829. On February 23, 1829 he was ordained as a deacon . He took part in the conclave of 1829 , which Pius VIII elected Pope. He was ordained a priest on June 6, 1829. For the period from March 15, 1830 to February 28, 1831, he was elected chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals . He was a participant in the conclave 1830-1831 , from which Gregory XVI. emerged as Pope.

death

A few days after the coronation of the newly elected Pope, Belisario Cristaldi died and was buried in the Roman church of Santa Caterina di Siena della Rota in Via Giulia .

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