Cristoforo Numai

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Cardinal Cristophoro Numai (portrait in a 17th century codex)

Cristoforo Numai OFM (also Numali or Numajo ; * in Forlì ; † March 23, 1528 in Ancona ) was an Italian clergyman, general minister of the Franciscan Observants and cardinal .

Life

He came from a respected family and was the second of five sons of Francesco Numai and his wife Cassandra Ercolani. In his youth he joined the Franciscan Order of the Observants in Bologna . He studied at the University of Bologna and at the Sorbonne in Paris , where he became a doctor of theology doctorate was. Later he was the confessor of Queen Luise of Savoy , mother of the French King Franz I.

On July 1, 1517, he was elected Minister General by the General Chapter of his order in Rome , which he remained until 1518. On the same day, Pope Leo X elevated him to cardinal priest in the consistory held at the same time and awarded him the cardinal's hat and the titular church of San Matteo in Merulana on July 6 of the same year . On July 10th of the same year Cristoforo Numai moved to the titular church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli . Also in 1517 he became administrator of the diocese of Alatri , which he remained until his death. He took part in the conclave 1521-1522 , in which Hadrian VI. was elected Pope. On April 17, 1523 he was appointed administrator of Isernia , he renounced this bishopric on December 19, 1524 in favor of his nephew Antonio Numai . The episcopal ordination donated to him on July 5, 1523 in Rome Pope Hadrian VI. personally; Co-consecrators were the Cardinals Niccolò Fieschi , Antonio Maria Ciocchi del Monte , Lorenzo Pucci , Paolo Emilio Cesi and Giacomo Salviati . He was a participant in the 1523 conclave , from which Clement VII emerged as Pope.

With the Breve Cum olim felicis recordationis of April 17, 1527, Clement VII withdrew the status of a titular church from the Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli , but without assigning a new title to Cardinal Numai. During the Sacco di Roma , the sack of Rome in 1527, Cardinal Numai was mistreated by imperial troops because they did not find any booty in his house.

Cristoforo Numai died in Ancona on March 23, 1528. His body was transferred to Rome and buried there in his former titular church, Santa Maria in Aracoeli .

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predecessor Office successor
Bernardino Prati General Minister of the Franciscans
1517–1518 		Francesco Lichetto
personal data
SURNAME Numai, Cristoforo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Numali, Cristoforo; Numajo, Cristoforo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, superior general of the Franciscan Observants and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Forlì
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1528
Place of death Ancona