BILIO, LUIGI. - Cardinal, b. 25 March 1826 in Alessandria (Piedmont), d. 30 Jan. 1884 in Rome. Of a very poor family (his father was a shoemaker, his mother a vegetable seller), he entered the Barnabites of Genoa. After a period of teaching in Parma and Rome, he was created cardinal on 24 June 1866, bishop of Sabina in 1873, perpetual abbot of S. Maria di Farfa, prefect of the Congregation of the Index and major penitentiary. Card. B. is commonly regarded as the draftsman of the Syllabus. During the Vatican Council he presided over the commission on dogmatic theology and was one of the presidents of the council itself. Pius IX entrusted him with high supervision over the printing of the records of the eighty-nine General Congregations of the council. From 1875 to 1884 five folio volumes appeared under the title Acta Congregationum generalium, and of each volume ten copies were printed.

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BIBL.: L. Pica, Le card. B. barnabite un des présidenti du Concile du Vatican, Paris n.d.; G. Boffito, Bibl. barnab. illustr., Florence 1933, p. 220 ff. On card. B. during the Vatican Council cf. P. Granderath, Geschichte des satilistischen Konzils, Freiburg im Br. 1903-1906, passim. On the Conclave of 1878 see R. De Cesare, Il Conclave di Leone XIII, Rome 1888, passim.

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