Word: gasparri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...predecessor and patron, Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, Vatican Secretary of State under two popes for 15 years, framer of the Lateran Treaty between the Italian state and the Vatican, gave the young Cardinal his blessing, then retired to his stately villa (a present from Pope Pius) where he can sit in the sun, busy himself for the rest of his life with canonical law. By order of Il Duce, every public building in Italy was flag-draped to celebrate two simultaneous Catholic milestones; the first anniversary of the Lateran Treaty, the eighth anniversary of Pius XI's Pontificate...
Next a series of reciprocal feasts was tendered to Marquis Macdonald by Cardinal Gasparri (then Papal Secretary of State), Cardinal Sincero, Cardinal Cerretti and other Princes of the Church...
Scion of well-to-do sheep-owners in the Umbrian hills, Pietro Gasparri (not to be confused with his nephew, Enrico Cardinal Gasparri) studied for the priesthood at Nepi, then at the Pontifical Seminary in Rome. There he attracted the favorable attention of potent Cardinal Mertel, Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, became his secretary. Soon he was professor of Canon Law at the famed Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (TIME, Nov. 18). In 1898 he was elected archbishop, went to Lima as apostolic delegate for Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador. In 1901 he was called to be secretary of the Congregation...
Learned indeed is Cardinal Gasparri. Greatest living authority on canon law, in 13 years he codified its chaos. Once he might have been Pope. When Benedict XV died (1922), it was said that Gasparri received 28 votes on the first ballot, withdrew in favor of Achille Cardinal Ratti who had become through Gasparri's influence first papal librarian, then cardinal. Climax of the Gasparrian career was the Lateran Treaty with the Italian State, restoring in part the temporal sovereignty and possessions of the Pope, ending the 59-year-long papal "imprisonment." His resignation will probably not take effect before...
Brusque, blunt, subtle in spite of his manner is Pietro Gasparri. Swarthy, stout of frame, broad of shoulder, his head is Ciceronian. His apartment in the Vatican, directly beneath the Pope's and connected with it by a private elevator, is of two rooms. His retinue includes a butler, a cook, a valet, a green parrot. In the little cemetery at Ussita, his home village, where the peasants call him "Don Pietro," his tomb is ready, inscription...