Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio OESA (also Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menochio ; born March 19, 1741 in Carmagnola , Piedmont , † March 25, 1823 in Rome ) was an Italian Curia Bishop of the Roman Church .

Life

He was the son of the pharmacist Michele Antonio Menochio and his wife Maria Maddalena Dondona de Pinerolo. Three of his six brothers also became priests . After attending school in his native town, he entered the Augustinian novitiate on April 2, 1760 in Fermo at the age of 19 . A year later, on April 3, 1761, he made his profession . He was ordained a priest on February 25, 1763. Appointed General Preacher of the Order on January 16, 1774, he settled in Foligno and went on preaching tours throughout Italy.

On December 18, 1795 he was appointed coadjutor bishop of the Bishop of Reggio Emilia Francesco Maria D'Este and named titular bishop of Hippo Diarrhytus . The episcopal ordination received his Bishop D'Este on May 22, 1796 while in Reggio already ruled the revolution; Co-consecrators were Bishop Paolo Giuseppe Castelli Piratini and Carlo Belloni , Bishop of Carpi .

Of Cardinal Albani , the dean of the College of Cardinals , he was after the death of his predecessor on January 2, 1800 Francesco Saverio Cristiani appointed His OESA for Pro-sacristan holiness. Pope Pius VII confirmed this appointment and on April 2, 1800 assigned him the titular bishopric of Porphyreon , and Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio became the Pope's confessor . He accompanied the Pope from November 2, 1804 to May 16, 1805 on his trip to Paris for Napoleon I's coronation as emperor.

Miollis forbade Menocchio, whom he referred to as "  confesseur fanatique et thaumaturge  " , from accompanying the captured Pius VII into exile, so Menocchio stayed behind alone in his apartment in the Quirinal Palace without taking an oath. At the beginning of the restoration, Menocchio was reinstated and accompanied Pius VII on his trip to Genoa in the spring of 1815. He made his contribution to the restoration of the Augustinian order.

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio died in Rome in 1823 and was buried in the Church of Sant'Agostino in Campo Marzio .

Aftermath

His beatification was carried out from 1845 to 1852 , but the process was broken off in 1905.

His notes and letters have been published in a source edition: D. Trapp, G. L. Masetti Zannini: Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menochio OSA, prefetto del Sacrario apostolico, confessore di Pio VII, 1741–1823. Diari e lettere. 6 volumes, Rome 1968.

literature

• Philippe Bountry: Prélats Référendaires et officers de curie en fonctions sous la restauration (1814–1846) . In: Souverain et pontife. Recherches prosopographiques sur la Curie Romaine à l'âge de la Restoration (1814–1846) . École française de Rome, Rome 2002, margin no. 409-411 (French, online edition [accessed March 17, 2018]).

Web links

• Entry on Giuseppe Bartolomeo Menocchio on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on March 17, 2018.