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Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, Luigi

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AMAT di SAN FILIPPO, LUIGI - Portrait, drawing by A. Frulli. Rome, Museo del Risorgimento.

AMAT di SAN FILIPPO e SORSO, LUIGI. - Cardinal, b. in Cagliari on 20 June 1796 to a family of Catalan origin, d. in Rome on 30 March 1878. He was protected by Card. Consalvi, governed several legations of the Papal State, and held the nunciatures of Naples (1826) and Madrid (1833-35). Made cardinal in 1837, he accompanied Pius IX to Gaeta (1849). Bishop of Palestrina (1852), he restored discipline, promoted studies and founded hospitals. In 1870 he became bishop of Porto and S. Rufina, in 1877 of Ostia and Velletri and dean of the Sacred College.

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BIBL.: J. Franklin, s. v. in DHG, II, coll. 980-81. Giovanni Meseguer

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By Giovanni Meseguer

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 977.

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Meseguer, Giovanni. “Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, luigi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 977. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/amat-di-san-filippo-e-sorso-luigi.

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Meseguer, Giovanni. “Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, luigi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 977. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/amat-di-san-filippo-e-sorso-luigi.

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  author    = {Meseguer, Giovanni},
  title     = {Amat di San Filippo e Sorso, luigi},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {I},
  pages     = {977},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1948},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/amat-di-san-filippo-e-sorso-luigi}
}

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