Nicola Canali

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Coat of arms of Nicola Cardinal Canali
Nicola Canali (3rd from left) as an employee of the Cardinal Secretary of State Merry del Val (seated left) with Eugenio Pacelli (far left) at the signing of the Concordat with Serbia (1914)
Grave slab of Nicola Cardinal Canali in Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo

Nicola Cardinal Canali (born June 6, 1874 in Rieti , Italy , † August 3, 1961 in the Vatican ) was a Curia Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church . He was Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .

Life

Nicola Canali studied in Rome trays Catholic theology and philosophy , he was a seminarian at the Capranica College and received on 31 March 1900, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then belonged to the staff of the Vatican State Secretariat, where, among other things, he was the personal secretary of Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta from September 1903 to 1908 . On March 21, 1908, he became a substitute for the State Secretariat. From June 1926 he was consultor to the Holy Office .

On December 16, 1935, Pope Pius XI appointed him . the cardinal deacon with the titular church of San Nicola in Carcere . In 1939 Pope Pius XII assigned him . Head of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican State , from 1941 until his death he was a major cardinal penitentiary .

In addition to his work as a Curia Cardinal, Canali held a number of functions, such as the first Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher , as well as Honor and Devotion Grand Cross Bailli of the Order of Malta and from 1938 to 1961 Grand Prior of the Grand Priory of Rome of the Order of Malta. In the latter function, he tried (ultimately unsuccessfully), taking advantage of the Grand Master's vacancy , to bring the Order of Malta under his control in order to possibly merge it with the Order of the Grave Knights. The related actions aroused in the ending pontificate of Pius XII. Great sensation and found a literary monument in Roger Peyrefitte's meticulously worked out novel "Maltese Knights" in 1953 , in which Cardinal Canali was characterized as paranoid and vain.

In his function as cardinal protodeacon (since 1946), Nicola Canali crowned Pope John XXIII on November 4, 1958, as the last cardinal to be ordained priest but not episcopal ordination . (In 1962 the latter issued the Motu Proprio Cum Gravissima , which stipulated that all cardinals were to receive episcopal ordination; this was intended to prevent non-bishops, if they are cardinals, from having protocol-based priority over bishops).

Nicola Canali died of a heart attack on August 3, 1961 in the Vatican . He was buried in the Roman church of Sant'Onofrio al Gianicolo at the administrative seat of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20130929014643/http://www.ordinedimaltaitalia.org/gran-priorato-di-roma-storia?start=1
  2. ↑ Vatican: Did the cardinals chat? In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1955 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
Camillo Cardinal Caccia Dominioni Cardinal Protodiacon
1946–1961 		Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani
Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri Major cardinal
penalties 1941–1961 		Arcadio María Cardinal Larraona Saralegui CMF
--- President of the Governorate of Vatican City
1939–1961 		Cardinal Alberto di Jorio
--- Croix de l Ordre du Saint-Sepulcre.svg Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
1949-1960 		Cardinal Eugène Tisserant
Massimo Cardinal Massimi Chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals
1950–1951 		Giovanni Cardinal Mercati
personal data
SURNAME Canali, Nicola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canali, Nicola Cardinal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Rieti , Italy
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1961
Place of death Vatican