Felice Cavagnis

Felice Cardinal Cavagnis (born January 13, 1841 in Bordogna , † December 29, 1906 in Rome ) was canon lawyer and cardinal of the Curia .

Life

The Bishop of Bergamo , Pier Luigi Speranza , ordained him priestly on September 19, 1863 in Bergamo . After a course at the Pontifical Roman Seminary , he received doctorates in philosophy, theology, and civil and canon law. Pope Leo XIII. appointed him professor of public canon law at the Pontifical Roman Seminary in 1880, a position he held for fifteen years. During this time he proved to be an eminent canon lawyer, especially in everything related to the constitution of the church and its relationship with civil society. The Roman congregations vied with one another in securing his services.

He was consultor of the Consistorial Congregation , the Council Congregation, and the Study Congregation ; Consultor and Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs ; Canon of the Apostolic Penitentiary and member of the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law. In all of these offices he left traces of his ingenuity and skill in dealing with difficult and sensitive issues. Austria, Spain and Portugal honored him with titles and awards. The Pope successively made him canon of several Roman basilicas, rector of the Roman seminary and house prelate .

Pope Leo XIII. took him on April 15, 1901 as a cardinal deacon in the college of cardinals and awarded him on April 18 of the same year the title of deaconry Santa Maria ad Martyres . He participated in the papal conclave, 1903 , Pope Pius X chose part.

On the morning of December 29, 1906, he was found dead in his bed in his Roman apartment in Palazzo Lante with paralysis of the heart. After his body had been laid out in the church of Sant'Eustachio , he was transferred to Bergamo on January 6, 1907 and buried in his family's crypt in the chapel of the Serina cemetery.

Works (selection)

• Società di della Natura e giuridica pubblica competente alla Chiesa. Rome 1880.
• Nozioni di diritto pubblico naturale ed ecclesiastico. Rome 1886.
• La Massoneria quel che e quel che ha fatto, quel che Venezia Viole. Rome 1905.
• Institutiones Iuris Publici Ecclesiastici (Elements of Public Canon Law), in three volumes, Rome 1906.

literature

• Mario Casella:  Cavagnis, Felice. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 22:  Castelvetro – Cavallotti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1979.

Web links

• Cavagnis, Felice. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 28, 2016.
• Salvatore Luzio:  Felice Cavagnis . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 3, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1908.
• Entry on Felice Cavagnis on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on July 28, 2016.