KALBERMATTEN, WILHELM. – Papal general, born in Brig in Valais (Switzerland) on 15 November 1793, died in Rome on 15 December 1875. Called by Pius IX in 1850 to reorganize the two foreign infantry regiments, he entered the service of the Holy See on 17 June with the rank of brigadier general.
Beginning in 1854, he commanded the territorial division of Bologna, and in June 1859 succeeded in preventing the revolutionary uprisings that had broken out in the Legations from spreading to the Marches and Umbria. Distinguished during the campaign of 1860 as commander of the military subdivisions, he was placed by Gen. Kanzler in charge of the general inspectorate of all the troops in 1865 and also served as an adviser to the Ministry of Arms. After 20 September 1870 he retired to private life, devoting himself to charitable works on behalf of former papal soldiers.
(courtesy of the Superiata delle Suore della Resurrezione, Rome) KAKOWSKI, ALEXANDER – RITATTO.
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