Enciclopedia Cattolica

GALAMINI, AGOSTINO

Volume V · p. 1106 · 1950

English translation · Testo originale italiano

GALAMINI, AGOSTINO. - Maestro generale dell'Ordine dei Frati predicatori e cardinale, n. a Brisighella (Ravenna) nel 1552, m. a Osimo il 4 (6 6 7) sett. 1639.
GALAMINI, AGOSTINO. - Maestro generale dell'Ordine dei Frati predicatori e cardinale, n. a Brisighella (Ravenna) nel 1552, m. a Osimo il 4 (6 6 7) sett. 1639.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

GALAMINI, AGOSTINO. – Master General of the Order of Preachers and cardinal, b. at Brisighella (Ravenna) in 1552, d. at Osimo on 4 (6–7) Sept. 1639.

He had already served as inquisitor at Brescia, Piacenza, Genoa and Milan when, on 28 Oct. 1604, he was elected Commissary General of the Holy Office and three years later became Master of the Sacred Palace. During the four-year period 1608–12 he was at the head of the Order, which he governed with vigour, travelling tirelessly. Meanwhile (7 Aug. 1611) he was raised to the purple and took the title of S. Maria in Aracoeli. On 19 Feb. 1613 he was appointed to the episcopal see of Recanati and Loreto, and on 29 Apr. 1620 transferred to that of Osimo.

BIBL.: Bullarium Ord. Praed., V, Rome 1733, pp. 662, 717, 724; A. Touron, Histoire des hommes illustres de l'Ordre de St. Dominique, V, Paris 1749, pp. 198–221; G. Catalano, De magistro S. Palatii ap., Rome 1751, pp. 144–147; A. Mortier, Histoire des maîtres généraux des Frères Prêcheurs, VI, Paris 1913, pp. 122–89; I. Turrisano, Hierarchia Ord. Praed., 2nd ed., Rome 1916, pp. 12, 35, 73; P. Gauchat, Hierarchia cath. medii et rec. aevi, IV, Münster 1935, pp. 54, 104.