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GREGORY XVI

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 576 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GREGORY XVI . (Bartolommeo Alberto Cappellari), See also:pope from 1831 to 1846, was See also:born at See also:Belluno on the 18th of See also:September 1765, and at an See also:early See also:age entered the See also:order of the Camaldoli, among whom he rapidly gained distinction for his theological and linguistic acquirements. His first See also:appearance before a wider public was in 1799, when he published against the See also:Italian Jansenists a controversial See also:work entitled Il Trionfo See also:delta See also:Santa Sede, which, besides passing through several See also:editions in See also:Italy, has been translated into several See also:European See also:languages. In 1800 he became a member of the See also:Academy of the See also:Catholic See also:Religion, founded by See also:Pius VII., to which he contributed a number of See also:memoirs on theological and philosophical questions and in 1805 was made See also:abbot of See also:San Gregorio on the Caelian See also:Hill. When Pius VII. was carried off from See also:Rome in 1809, Cappellati withdrew to See also:Murano, near See also:Venice, and in 1814, with some other members of his order, he removed to See also:Padua; but soon after the restoration of the pope he was recalled to Rome, where he received successive appointments as See also:vicar-See also:general of the Camaldoli, councillor of the See also:Inquisition, See also:prefect of the Propaganda, and examiner of bishops. In See also:March 1825 he was created See also:cardinal by See also:Leo XII., and shortly afterwards was entrusted with an important See also:mission to adjust a See also:concordat regarding the interests of the Catholics of See also:Belgium and the Protestants of See also:Holland. On the and of See also:February 1831 he was, after sixty-four days' See also:conclave, unexpectedly chosen to succeed Pius VIII. in the papal See also:chair. The revolution of 183o had just inflicted a severe See also:blow on the ecclesiastical party in See also:France, and almost the first See also:act of the new See also:government there was to seize See also:Ancona, thus throwing all Italy, and particularly the Papal States, into an excited See also:condition which seemed to demand strongly repressive See also:measures. In the course of the struggle which ensued it was more than once necessary to See also:call in the See also:Austrian bayonets. The reactionaries in See also:power put off their promised reforms So persistently as to anger even Metternich; nor did the replacement of Bernetti by Lambruschini in 1836 mend matters; for the new cardinal secretary of See also:state objected even to See also:railways and See also:illuminating See also:gas, and was liberal chiefly in his employment of spies and of prisons. The embarrassed See also:financial condition in which Gregory See also:left the States of the See also:Church makes it doubtful how far his lavish See also:expenditure in architectural and See also:engineering See also:works, and his magnificent See also:patron-age of learning in the hands of See also:Mai, See also:Mezzofanti,Gaetano, See also:Moroni and others, were for the real benefit of his subjects. The years of his pontificate were marked by the steady development and See also:diffusion of those ultramontane ideas which were ultimately formulated, under the See also:presidency of his successor Pius IX., by the See also:council of the Vatican.

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June 1846. See A. M. Bernasconi, Acta Gregorii Papae X VI. scilicet constitutiones, bullae, litterae apostolicae, epistolae, vols. i-4 (Rome, 1901 ff.) ; Cardinal See also:Wiseman, Recollections of the Last Four Popes (See also:London, 1858) ; See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, vol. vii. (See also:Leipzig, 1899), 127 If. (gives literature) ; Frederik Nielsen, See also:History of the Papacy in the 19th See also:Century, ii. (London, 1906). (W. W.

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