Ignazio Persico

Ignatius Camillus William Mary Peter Persico OFMCap ( Ignazio da Napoli ; born January 30, 1823 , Naples ; † December 7, 1896 in Rome ) was an Italian cardinal and prelate of the Catholic Church , who held a number of different offices in Italy during his career, India and the USA held. He has served as Vicar Apostolic , Bishop , Apostolic Delegate in Ireland and Vicar of the Roman Colleges , among others .

Life

Pietro Persico came from a noble Neapolitan family. His father Francesco Saverio was director of the armed forces, his mother Giuseppina Pennacchio belonged to an Italian branch of the Acton family. He received his education in the schools of the Jesuits in Naples, Sorrento and Rome and on April 25, 1839 he joined the order of the Capuchins and took the religious name Ignazio da Napoli . After his ordination in November 1846, he was sent to Patna , India. The Apostolic Vicar Anastasius Hartmann made him his closest collaborator and confidante. In 1850 Persico accompanied Hartmann to Mumbai after he had been transferred there. He helped Hartmann found a seminary and launch the Bombay Catholic Examiner magazine . In 1853 there was a schism in Goa , which at that time still belonged to the Portuguese colonial empire . The bishop sent Persico to Rome and London to present the Church's position to the Pope and the British Government .

Persico was appointed titular bishop of Gratianopolis on March 8, 1854 , and Hartmann was assigned as auxiliary bishop ; the next year he was called as a visitor to the Apostolic Vicariate of Agra and later as Apostolic Vicar. During the Indian uprising of 1857 he was lucky enough to get away with his life and had to return to Italy in 1860. In 1866 he was sent on a mission to the United States and participated in the Plenary Councils of Baltimore .

On March 20, 1870, Persico was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Savannah , Georgia . When he became seriously ill again, he resigned in 1873. In 1874 he was sent to Canada as an Apostolic Delegate and in 1877 commissioned to put the affairs of the Malabar Schism in order.

On March 26, 1879, he was appointed coadjutor of Aquino in Italy. In March 1887 he was named titular archbishop of Tamiathis and sent to Ireland as an apostolic delegate to report on the relationship of the clergy to the political movements. He quickly realized that the questions had to be viewed not only against the current political background, but also against the historical background. So he delayed his report. On April 23, 1888, he was surprised by a statement by the Office that it was illegal to follow the Plan of Campaign and participate in the boycott . In June 1888, Leo XIII. the encyclical Saepe nos . Persico returned to Rome disappointed. There he was appointed vicar of the Pontifical College . On January 16, 1893, he was elevated to cardinal with the titular church of San Pietro in Vincoli and appointed cardinal prefect of the Congregation for Indulgences and Holy Relics .

He died on December 7, 1895 in Rome and was buried in the chapel of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Campo Verano .

literature

Lawrence Hess: Ignatius Persico . In: Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 11, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1911.

Web links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Savanna
Persico, OFMCap., Ignazio. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed February 4, 2017.
Entry on Ignatius Camillus William Mary Peter Persico on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on February 4, 2017.
Text of the encyclical Saepe nos

Individual evidence

↑ Biography in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
↑ “ The promulgation of the Papal Rescript, condemning boycotting and the Plan of Campaign as grave Offences against the moral law, took Mgr. Persico as much by surprise as it did Cardinal Manning; for both he and the Papal Delegate confidently expected that, in accordance with their joint suggestions, the condemnation of the immoral methods of the League would have been pronounced not directly by the Holy See, but by the Irish Episcopate. ”(Purcell: Life of Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. MacMillan, London 1896, vol. II, p. 624).

predecessor	Office	successor
Paolo de Niquesa	Bishop of Sora 1879–1887	Raffaele Sirolli
Augustin Verot	Bishop of Savannah 1870–1874	William Hickley Gross

personal data
SURNAME	Persico, Ignazio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Persico, Ignatius Camillus William Mary Peter; Da Napoli, Ignazio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian cardinal and prelate of the Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1896
Place of death	Rome

[1] Biography in the Catholic Encyclopedia.

[2] “ The promulgation of the Papal Rescript, condemning boycotting and the Plan of Campaign as grave Offences against the moral law, took Mgr. Persico as much by surprise as it did Cardinal Manning; for both he and the Papal Delegate confidently expected that, in accordance with their joint suggestions, the condemnation of the immoral methods of the League would have been pronounced not directly by the Holy See, but by the Irish Episcopate. ”(Purcell: Life of Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. MacMillan, London 1896, vol. II, p. 624).