Pasquale Macchi

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Pasquale Macchi (born November 9, 1923 in Varese , Italy , † April 5, 2006 in Milan ) was a Roman Catholic bishop and private secretary of Pope Paul VI.

Life

Pasquale Macchi studied philosophy and theology and received the sacrament of ordination on June 15, 1946 . After completing a postgraduate course in literature , he met the new Archbishop of Milan , Giovanni Battista Montini, in 1954 and became his private secretary.

After Cardinal Montini's election as Pope Paul VI. In 1963 he followed him to the Vatican . There he became the closest confidante of Paul VI. and got to know the Curia Bishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus , among others . He also established relationships between the Vatican and the banker Michele Sindona . Marcinkus and Sindona involved the Vatican through their business activities in a number of affairs, such as the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano . During Paul VI's trip to Asia. In November 1970 he saved the Pope's life in the Philippine capital Manila by knocking the knife out of the hand of the apparently mentally disturbed assassin Benjamin Mendoza y Amor Flores . Macchi also worked as an art collector for the Vatican. After the death of Paul VI. he returned to his hometown as archpriest of Sacro Monte di Varese .

On 10 December 1988 it appointed Pope John Paul II. To the prelates of Loreto . He donated his episcopal ordination on January 6, 1989 in the Vatican Basilica . Co-consecrators were the Curia Archbishops and later Cardinals Edward Idris Cassidy and Jose Sánchez . On October 7, 1996 he resigned his office for reasons of age and retired to a monastery in Perego ( province of Lecco ), where he, through his previous collaboration with Paul VI. was known. Ten years later, after a long illness, he died at the age of 82 in a clinic in Milan.

literature

  • Christa Langen-Peduto: In the shadow of the popes. The everyday life of the Pope's secretaries from Pius XII. until Francis . Benno, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-7462-4676-5 ; therein the chapter Don Pasquale Macchi: Secretary of Pope Paul VI. , Pp. 41-55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Yallop : In the Name of God? The mysterious death of the 33-day Pope John Paul I , Knaur-Verlag 1984, ISBN 3-426-03812-9 , p. 147.
  2. ↑ Yallop, pp. 190-191.
  3. ↑ Art at no cost. Der Spiegel , January 24, 1972, accessed May 7, 2013 .
  4. ↑ see Spiegel article from January 24, 1972
predecessor Office successor
Loris Francesco Capovilla Prelate of Loreto
1988–1996 		Angelo Comastri
personal data
SURNAME Macchi, Pasquale
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian clergyman, private secretary of Pope Paul VI.
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Varese
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2006
Place of death Milan