Luigi Maglione

Luigi Maglione as Apostolic Nuncio in France (1927)

Luigi Cardinal Maglione (born March 2, 1877 in Casoria , Province of Naples , Italy ; † August 22, 1944 ibid) was a Vatican diplomat and later a Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church .

Life

Coat of arms of Luigi Cardinal Maglione

Luigi Maglione was a seminarian at the Almo Collegio Capranica , he studied at various universities in Rome and received his doctorate in both Catholic theology and philosophy .

He received on 25 July 1901, the sacrament of the priesthood and worked until 1908 as a vicar in the diocese of Naples . In addition, he pursued further studies and in 1908 joined the diplomatic service of the Vatican, where he worked in the Vatican State Secretariat until 1918 . From 1915 to 1918 he also taught at the Pontifical Diplomatic Academy . In 1918 Pope Benedict XV appointed him . provisional papal representative to the League of Nations and envoy in Switzerland .

In 1920 Luigi Maglione was appointed titular archbishop of Caesarea in Palestine and apostolic nuncio for Switzerland. He received his episcopal ordination from Pietro Cardinal Gasparri ; Co- consecrators were Bonaventura Cerretti , Secretary in the State Secretariat, and Lorenzo Schioppa , Nuncio in Hungary. From 1926 to 1935 he was Apostolic Nuncio in France . In 1935 Pope Pius XI took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Pudenziana in the college of cardinals and entrusted him in 1938 with the office of prefect of the Council Congregation (today Congregation for the Clergy ).

A few days after the election of Pope Pius XII. Luigi Maglione was appointed cardinal secretary of state by this in March 1939 . From 1939, Luigi Maglione also headed the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archeology as Magnus Cancellarius .

Luigi Maglione died on August 22, 1944 in Casoria, where he was also buried.

literature

Niccolò del Re: I cardinali prefetti della Sacra Congregazione des Concilio dalle origini ad oggi (1564–1964). Apollinaris XXXVII 1964.
Urban Fink: Luigi Maglione. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 11, 2008 , accessed March 15, 2020 .
Many references to the activities of Maglione during the Second World War in: Giovanni Miccoli: I dilemmi ei silenzi di Pio XII. Rizzoli, Milano 2000.

Web links

Maglione, Luigi. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 21, 2016.
Entry on Luigi Maglione on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 21, 2016.
Newspaper article about Luigi Maglione in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Footnotes

^ Claude Altermatt: Relations between Switzerland and the Vatican after the re-establishment of the nunciature in 1920 . In: Urs Altermatt (ed.): Swiss Catholicism between the world wars, 1920–1940 . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland 1994, ISBN 3-7278-0827-6 , pp. 331–342, here p. 333.
^ Claude Altermatt: Relations between Switzerland and the Vatican after the re-establishment of the nunciature in 1920 . In: Urs Altermatt (ed.): Swiss Catholicism between the world wars, 1920–1940 . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland 1994, pp. 331–342, here p. 336.

predecessor	Office	successor
Eugenio Pacelli	Cardinal Secretary of State 1939–1944	Domenico Tardini Pro-State Secretary from 1952

personal data
SURNAME	Maglione, Luigi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maglione, Cardinal Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Casoria
DATE OF DEATH	August 22, 1944
Place of death	Casoria

[1] Claude Altermatt: Relations between Switzerland and the Vatican after the re-establishment of the nunciature in 1920 . In: Urs Altermatt (ed.): Swiss Catholicism between the world wars, 1920–1940 . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland 1994, ISBN 3-7278-0827-6 , pp. 331–342, here p. 333.

[2] Claude Altermatt: Relations between Switzerland and the Vatican after the re-establishment of the nunciature in 1920 . In: Urs Altermatt (ed.): Swiss Catholicism between the world wars, 1920–1940 . Universitätsverlag, Freiburg im Üechtland 1994, pp. 331–342, here p. 336.