GIUSTINIANI, ORAZIO. - Oratorian cardinal, Genoese patrician, b. on the island of Chios on 28 February 1580, d. in Rome on 25 July 1649. Having gone to Rome, at the age of 25 he entered the Congregation of the Oratory, where he distinguished himself by the exemplary quality of his life and his oratorical gifts.

He concerned himself with the cause of canonization of St. Philip Neri and erected the first church in his honor at Carbognano (Lazio). He was placed in charge of the monastery of Farfa 6, and in 1632 he was appointed custodian of the Vatican Library. He published the Storia del Concilio fiorentino, edited by J. Hardouin, in Acta Concilium IX, Paris 1715, p. 669 ff. A consultor of the Holy Office, in 1640 he was elected bishop of Montalto, where he labored very well. Transferred in 1645 to Nocera, he founded a Congregation of the Oratory there and attended to the liturgical instruction of the clergy. The same year the Pope created him cardinal and in 1646 librarian of the Holy Roman Church. Having resigned the bishopric, he devoted himself to the protectorate of the monks of St. Basil, presiding over their Chapter of Grottaferrata in '49.

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BIBL.: L. Cardella, Memorie istoriche dei cardinali, VI, Rome 1793, p. 63 f.; G. Moroni, Dizionario di erudiz. storico-ecl., XXXI, p. 220-21.

Carlo Gasbarri

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