Gentiluomo di Sua Santità

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A Gentiluomo di Sua Santità ( German : "Nobleman of His Holiness "; Mz .: Gentiluomini di Sua Santitá , German: "Noblemen of His Holiness" or "Nobles of His Holiness") is a senior honorary lay worker of the papal house. About a hundred men belong to the papal family .

history

Alfonso Giorgi (March 7, 1824 - March 31, 1889) in uniforms of the Camerieri Segreti di Spada e Cappa at the time of the pontificate (1846–1878) of Pius IX. The left picture shows the Spanish court costume

Before the reform of the papal household were among the Pontifical Chamberlain are not the clergy belonging Camerieri Segreti di Spada e Cappa Partecipanti ( "real secret chamberlain with sword and sheath"), which Camerieri Segreti di Spada e Cappa ( "other confidential finance officer with sword and sheath ") And the Camerieri d'Onore di Spada e Cappa (" Chamberlain with sword and cloak "). They mostly wore Spanish court clothes. Most of the members came from Italian noble families, many of whom had held functions in the papal family for a long time.

Through the Motu proprio with the title Pontificalis Domus of March 28, 1968 it became the Gentiluomini di Sua Santitá .

present

Today the Gentiluomini wear black tailcoats and a three-row gold chain of office, which is adorned with the papal insignia, the tiara and the crossed keys of Peter ( coat of arms of the Vatican City ).

The Gentiluomini in the Elenco ("directory") are, in contrast to earlier, mostly of bourgeois origin. The function is not inheritable and does not end with the pontificate of a Pope. The respective dignitaries are listed in the Annuario Pontificio , the papal yearbook. During their term of office, they also include the three highest-ranking officers of the Swiss Guard .

The nobles provide the immediate accompaniment of the Pope's visitors. During the one-to-one conversations, they look after the entourage of the visitor. This takes place both in the Vatican and in Castel Gandolfo . During solemn church services in St. Peter's Basilica , they assign the reserved seats to the guests of honor and members of the diplomatic corps . They are also helpful to the Pope at the weekly general audiences, events and concerts in the Vatican Audience Hall .

Pope Francis announced in 2013 that he had decided not to appoint a Gentiluomo di Sua Santità any more and thus temporarily overruled § 7 of the Pontificalis domus

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ulrich Nersinger: The discrete noblemen of the Pope , kath.net, March 11, 2010
  2. ^ Alfonso Giorgi - Archeologo e Amministratore ferentinate , giorgiroffiisabelli.it
  3. ^ Giorgio Aldrighetti: Gentiluomini di Sua Santità , Gli Ordini Cavallereschi
  4. ↑ German wording of the Pontificalis Domus , Post-Conciliar Documentation, Volume 10, Kurienreform I (1967), pp. 254–273, Paulinus-Verlag Trier 1968, Imprimatur N. 92/67, Treveris die 18 m. June 1968
  5. ↑ Ulrich Nersinger: The history of the "Päpstlichen Jahrbuch" , February 25, 2010, zenit.org
  6. ^ Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history, Volume 97, Verlag Herder, 2002
  7. ↑ The Prince and the Pope's nobles: "Their abolition is correct, but Paul VI made a mistake", entry in the Catholic magazine for church and culture [1] , accessed on April 29, 2019
  8. ↑ PAOLO VI LETTERA APOSTOLICA MOTU PROPRIO PONTIFICALIS DOMUS - VIENE CAMBIATO L'ORDINAMENTO DELLA CASA PONTIFICIA [2]