MARCO Y CATALAN, JUAN-FRANCISCO.—Cardinal, born in Bello (Saragozza) on 24 October 1771, died in Rome on 15 March 1841. Appointed archpriest of the Chapter of Saragozza (1814), in 1816 he was summoned to Rome as auditor of the Rota for Spain.
In 1826 Leo XII appointed him governor of Rome. Created a cardinal deacon by the same Pontiff in the Consistory of 15 December 1828, his name gained wide resonance in the Conclave of 1831 when, as the election of Cardinal Giacomo Giustiniani to the papacy was considered imminent,
he, in the name of the king of Spain, pronounced the formula of exclusion against the prelate.
The Decisioni rotali emanate dal 1817 al 1828 by M. were published in Rome (1829), in two substantial volumes, edited by the lawyer Nicola Salvadori.
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