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RAMPOLLA, COUNT MARIANO DEL TINDARO (1843– )

RAMPOLLA, See also:
COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
COUNT MARIANO DEL TINDARO (1843– ) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 17th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1843, at Polizzi, in the Sicilian See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of See also:

CEFALU (anc. Cephaloedium)

Cefalu. Having completed his studies in the Capranica See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College at See also:

Rome, and having taken See also:

HOLY

holy orders, he studied See also:

DIPLOMACY (Fr. diplomatic)

diplomacy at the College of Ecclesiastical Nobles, and in 1875 was appointed councillor to the papal nunciature at See also:

MADRID

Madrid. Two years later he was recalled to Rome and appointed secretary of the Propaganda for Eastern Affairs, and for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. Consecrated titular See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

HERACLEA

Heraclea in 1885, he returned to Madrid as See also:

NUNCIO

nuncio, but was shortly afterwards created cardinal and appointed to the papal secretaryship of See also:

state. New to the Sacred College and See also:

FREE

free from traditional preconceptions, he was admirably fitted to carry out the papal policy under See also:

Leo XIII. (see PAPACY). Rightly or wrongly, he was held personally responsible for the rapprochement with See also:

France and See also:

Russia and the opposition to the See also:

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

Powers of the Triple See also:

ALLIANCE

Alliance; and this attitude had its effect on his career when Leo XIII. died. Rampolla was undoubtedly the favourite among the papabili cardinals; but the See also:

VETO (Lat. for " I forbid ")

veto of See also:

Austria was interposed (see See also:

CONCLAVE (Lat. conclave, from cum, together, and clavis, a key)

CONCLAVE), and the votes of the Sacred College See also:

fell to Cardinal Sarto, who on the 4th of August 1903 became See also:

pope as See also:

PIUS

Pius X. Cardinal Rampolla at once resigned his See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office as secretary of state, being succeeded by Cardinal Merry del Val, and ceased to See also:

PLAY

play any conspicuous See also:

PART

part in the See also:

CURIA

Curia.

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