Luigi Natoli

Luigi Natoli (born June 15, 1799 in Patti , † February 25, 1875 in Messina ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Caltagirone and Archbishop of Messina ( Italy ).

Life

Luigi Natoli was ordained a priest on March 2, 1822 . On March 15, 1858, he was called to be Bishop of Caltagirone, and on March 21 of the same year he received episcopal ordination from the Prefect of the Congregation for the Index , Girolamo d'Andrea . Natoli was appointed Archbishop of Messina on February 22nd, 1867.

He took part in the First Vatican Council . About his address to the council on May 15, 1870, Lord Acton reported in a letter to Ignaz von Döllinger on the same day with sardonic humor that the archbishop had put forward "a completely new argument for the Sicilians' belief in the infallibility of the Pope". Even Saint Peter preached in Sicily during his lifetime and announced to some Sicilians who had become Christian that he was infallible. They then asked Maria whether that was true. The mother of Jesus would have confirmed this and would have remembered that she would have been there when her son had said this to Peter. According to Lord Acton, this folk legend was enough for Archbishop Natoli to show that in Sicily the belief in papal infallibility had been attested from the beginning of Christianity.

Archbishop Natoli died on February 25, 1875 and was buried in Messina Cathedral.

literature

Scritti vari di Monsignor Natoli . Del Progresso, Messina 1877.
F. Pisciotta, Natoli Luigi . In F. Armetta (ed.): Dizionario Enciclopedico dei Pensatori e Teologi di Sicilia. Secc. XIX-XX . Palermo 2010.

Web links

Entry on Luigi Natoli on catholic-hierarchy.org

Individual evidence

^ Roland Hill: Lord Acton . Yale University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-30-012980-9 , p. 221, with further references, note 33, p. 461. Archbishop Natoli's speech can be found in: Mansi (ed.): Sacrorum Conciliorum . Vol. 52, Col. 45-46.

personal data
SURNAME	Natoli, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH	Patti
DATE OF DEATH	February 25, 1875
Place of death	Messina

[1] Roland Hill: Lord Acton . Yale University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-30-012980-9 , p. 221, with further references, note 33, p. 461. Archbishop Natoli's speech can be found in: Mansi (ed.): Sacrorum Conciliorum . Vol. 52, Col. 45-46.