Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte

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Lucien Bonaparte as a priest (photo 1860)
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Epitaph in Rome, Santa Pudenziana: "Here rests in the peace of Christ Lucianus Bonaparte"

Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte, 4th Prince of Canino and Musignano (born November 15, 1828 in Rome , † November 19, 1895 ibid) was a French cardinal from the House of Bonaparte .

Life

He was born in Rome as the son of Charles Lucien Bonaparte and his wife Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte (1801-1854).

His paternal grandparents were Lucien Bonaparte and his second wife Alexandrine de Bleschamp. His maternal grandparents were Joseph Bonaparte and Julie Clary . He was baptized by his great uncle Joseph Cardinal Fesch , his godfather was the future Emperor of the French Napoléon III. , a cousin of his parents.

The prince received on December 13, 1856 through Pope Pius IX. the ordination . He held numerous offices in France and Italy . From 1868 to 1879 he was cardinal priest of Santa Pudenziana . From 1879 he was cardinal priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina . Cardinal Bonaparte attended the First Vatican Council . He was also one of the voting cardinals who made Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Cardinal Luigi Pecci Pope Leo XIII in 1878 . chose.

After his sudden death in 1895 he was buried on the Campo Verano in Rome.

literature

Berlin of Cardinal Luciano Luigi Bonaparte
  • Martin Bräuer: Handbook of the Cardinals - 1846–2012 . Berlin / Boston 2014, pp. 79–80

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