- Luigi Lambruschini
Luigi Lambruschini (
6 March 1776 –12 May 1854 ) was an Italian cardinal of theRoman Catholic Church in the mid nineteenth century.Biography
Luigi Lambruschini was born at
Sestri Levante , then part of the independentRepublic of Genoa . He joined areligious order called theOrder of the Barnabites in his youth. He attended theCongress of Vienna in 1815 as secretary toErcole Cardinal Consalvi .Lambruschini was appointed
Archbishop of Genoa in 1819. He was later named as Apostolic Nuncio to the Kingdom of France in 1827 byPope Pius VII , but was forced to flee following the 1830 revolution that toppled the Bourbon monarchy and brought House of Orleans pretender Louis-Phillippe to the French throne.Lambruschini was made a cardinal in 1831. He served as Secretary of State under
Pope Gregory XVI . He was the leading conservative candidate in the 1846 papal conclave. Though he received a majority of the votes initially it was clear that he could not achieve the required two-thirds majority. He was eventually defeated by the liberal candidate, Giovanni Maria Mastai Cardinal Ferretti, the Archbishop of Imola, who becamePope Pius IX .Lambruschini was a particularly hated figure among the masonic republicans during the
1848 Revolutions that temporarily deposedPope Pius IX . His house was ransacked and he was forced to flee for his life, disguised as a stablehand. He returned following the Pope's restoration. He died inRome in 1854.ee also
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Our Lady of La Salette
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