Antonio Bacci

Antonio Cardinal Bacci ( born September 4, 1885 in Giugnola at Florence; † January 20, 1971 in Vatican City ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

After studying Catholic theology in Florence he received on 9 August 1909, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked from 1910 to 1922 as the spiritual director of the seminary Florence. From 1922 to 1931 he was a staff member in the Vatican Secretariat of State, and in 1923 appointed Pontifical honorary chaplain. Since 1931 he worked as secretary of the (1967 abolished ) Department for the briefs to the princes (in charge of the Latin texts of the Vatican) and became the house Prelate of His Holiness appointed. 1960 Pope John XXIII elevated him. cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia Sant'Eugenio. On April 5, 1962, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Colonia in Cappadocia. He received his episcopal consecration by Pope John XXIII. on April 19, 1962 Co-consecrators were the prefect of the Congregation for Seminaries and Universities, Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo, and the prefect of the Congregation for the order of the Sacraments, Cardinal Aloisi Masella Benedetto

Bacci was among other participants in the conclave in 1963 and the Second Vatican Council. Became known Bacci at supporters of traditionalism for its verlautbarte shortly before his death criticism of the liturgical reform. Bacci had come to the great astonishment of the Vatican in 1967 for a book of reform critic Tito Casini La tunica stracciata a preface. Bacci was able to accept the devaluation of the Latin Church language hardly for which he, inter alia, had developed a lexicon that includes many new expressions. Uncompromising in his trenchant stance against communism, he died in 1971 at the Vatican and was buried in his hometown of Giugnola.

Publications

• Alfredo Ottaviani and Antonio Bacci (ed.): Short -critical examination of the new " Ordo Missae ". Immaculata -Verlag, Reussbuehl / Lucerne 1969

(Supported by the old cardinals, but not written ) Although this criticism by the Congregation on November 12, 1969 as superficial and was incorrectly assessed in many details, she took Pope Paul VI. the occasion, the General Instruction of the Roman Missal of 1970, an explanatory Prooemium ( preface) to have to start by saying that emphasizes the integrity of the tradition.