Mariano Falcinelli Antoniacci

Mariano Falcinelli Antoniacci OSBCas (born November 16, 1806 in Assisi , † May 29, 1874 in Rome ) was an Italian Roman Catholic religious , bishop and cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Family coat of arms of the House of Falcinelli Antoniacci

Mariano Falcinelli Antoniacci was born as Lorenzo Baldassare Luigi Falcinelli Antoniacci in Assisi. He was the son of Giovanni Battista Falcinelli Antoniacci and Aloisia Alessi, members of an Italian noble family. At the age of 18 he entered the Benedictine Abbey of San Pietro in his hometown in 1824 and was given the religious name Mariano .

After moving to Rome, on December 18, 1825, he took his religious vows in the Abbey of Saint Paul Outside the Walls . He then began to study theology at the University of Florence , which he completed on June 26, 1846 with a doctorate in theology and philosophy .

Falcinelli Antoniaccis ordination took place on June 13, 1829 in Rome. In 1831 he became professor of theology at the Abbey of St. Paul Outside the Walls before taking over the training of novices in 1834 . In 1840 he took over the Benedictine Abbey in Castelnuovo di Farfa as prior , before he was elected Vice Chancellor of his order in 1844. In 1846 he became abbot of the monastery of San Pietro in Assisi, and then in 1850 abbot- ordinary of the exemte abbey of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

On March 7, 1853, he was appointed Bishop of Forlì . He was ordained bishop on April 17, 1853 by Cardinal Gabriele della Genga Sermattei ; Co-consecrators were Archbishop Antonio Ligi Bussi OFMConv and Giuseppe Maria Castellani , the papal sacristan . On December 21, 1857, Falcinelli Antoniaccis was appointed titular Archbishop of Athenae , a title he retained until the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Athens was founded in 1874.

On March 30, 1858, Bishop Falcinelli Antoniacci was sent to Brazil as Internuntius and envoy of the Holy See . He stayed in South America until 1863 before he was sent to Austria-Hungary as a nuncio on August 14, 1863 . He stayed here for eleven years, until 1874. Shortly before he left Vienna , he was awarded the ku St. Stephen's Order .

On December 22, 1873, Pope Pius IX took Mariano Falcinelli Antoniacci as Cardinal Priest of the titular church of San Marcello in the College of Cardinals on. Whether he received the cardinal's ring and the biretta on May 4, 1874, as is reported, is a matter of fact in the records. In any case, Falcinelli Antoniacci died that same month at the age of 67.

After he was buried for a short time in the Campo Verano cemetery in the Roman district of Nomentano - San Lorenzo , his remains were transferred to the cemetery there in Assisi.

literature

• Giuseppe Monsagrati:  Falcinelli Antoniacci, Mariano. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 44:  Fabron-Farina. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1994.
• Philippe Bountry: Officiers subalternes de la curie et consulteurs des congrégations romaines en fonctions sous la restauration (1814-1846) (notes brèves) . 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. 228–229 (French, online edition [accessed July 9, 2019]).

Web links

• Falcinelli Antoniacci, Mariano. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed September 20, 2016.
• Entry on Mariano Falcinelli Antoniacci on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on September 20, 2016.