Gaetano De Lai

Cardinal Gaetano De Lai

Gaetano Cardinal De Lai (born July 26, 1853 in Malo near Vicenza , † October 24, 1928 in Rome ) was a Curia Cardinal of the Catholic Church .

Life

Gaetano De Lai was the second child of Antonio De Lai and Maria Silvagni. He studied from 1867 to 1870 at the Vicenza Seminary and from 1870 to 1876 at the Pontifical Roman Seminary of San Apollinare in Rome, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy and a Doctor iuris utriusque .

On April 16, 1876, he received by Cardinal Vicar Patrizi Naro , bishop of Ostia and Velletri , the priesthood for the Diocese of Vicenza .

He was appointed to the Roman Curia, where on June 25, 1903, he assumed the office of Pro-Secretary and on November 11, 1903 the office of Secretary of the Congregation for the Interpretation of the Council of Trent (merged into the present Congregation for the Clergy ).

Pope Pius X appointed Gaetano De Lai Cardinal Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere in 1907 and Secretary of the Consistorial Congregation (today the Congregation for Bishops ) in 1908 . On November 27, 1911, he was elected Cardinal Bishop of Sabina and on December 17 of that year he received the episcopal ordination personally by the Pope, co-consecrators were Archbishop Agostino Silj and Bishop Agostino Zampini OSA .

De Lai attended the 1914 conclave that Pope Benedict XV. elected, also at the conclave of 1922 , when Pope Pius XI. was chosen. From 1919 he was Sub- Dean of the College of Cardinals .

He died in Rome in 1928 after a long illness and was buried there in the Campo Verano cemetery. The following year, his remains were transferred to his hometown of Malo and buried there.

effect

The cardinal is considered to be one of the curial bearers of ecclesiastical politics under Pope Pius X.

The "Zeitschrift für Politik", Volume 25, 1935, published by the Munich School of Politics, describes Gaetano De Lai as: "undisputedly the most important personality of the Cardinal College under Pius X."

The Protestant theologian Kurt Nowak calls Gaetano De Lai in 2001 in his book about Adolf von Harnack : “the head of the anti-modern and intransigent direction”.

Émile Poulat sees in Gaetano De Lai the “truly strong man” of the pontificate of Pius X.

Awards

• Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen (1914)

literature

• Rocco Cerrato:  De Lai, Gaetano. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 36:  DeFornari – Della Fonte. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1988.
• Georg Schwaiger: Papacy and Popes in the 20th Century . CHBeck, 1999, ISBN 3-406-44892-5 ( limited preview in Google book search).
• Michael Sievernich: Gospel and Culture . Ed .: Mariano Delgado. Saint-Paul, 2010, ISBN 3-7278-1665-1 , pp. 225 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

• Publications by Gaetano De Lai in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale
• De Lai, Gaetano. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed July 29, 2016.
• Entry on Gaetano De Lai on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 29, 2016.
• The coat of arms of Cardinal Gaetano De Lai

Individual evidence

1. ^ Richard Karl Bernhard Schmidt, Adolf Grabowsky (Ed.): Journal for Politics . C. Heymann, 1935, p. 468 ( excerpt from Google book search).
2. ^ Kurt Nowak: Adolf von Harnack . Isd, 2001, p. 315 ( excerpt from Google book search).
3. ↑ "  vraiment l'homme fort du Pontificat  ", quoted from Karlheinz Deschner : A century of salvation history. The Politics of the Popes in the Age of World Wars . From Leo XIII. 1878 up to Pius XI. 1939. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1982, p. 151 ( excerpt from Google book search).

predecessor	Office	successor
Francesco di Paola Cardinal Cassetta	Cardinal Bishop of Sabina 1911–1928	Donato Raffaele Cardinal Sbarretti
Carlo Cardinal Nocella	Secretary of the Consistorial Congregation 1908–1928	Carlo Cardinal Perosi