Antonio Caggiano
Antonio Cardinal Caggiano ( born January 30, 1889 in Coronda, Argentina, † October 23, 1979 in Buenos Aires ) was Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
Life
Antonio Caggiano received his philosophical and theological education in the seminary of Santa Fe. He received 23 March 1912, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked for several months as a church pastor. From 1913 to 1931 he was a lecturer in the formation of priests of the diocese of Santa Fe as well as pastors of Catholic Action.
In the years 1933 and 1934, Antonio Caggiano performed the duties of the Vicar General at the Military Ordinariate. 1934 Pope Pius XI appointed him. Bishop of Rosario. The bishop He was ordained on March 17, 1935, Filippo Cortesi, the Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina. On February 18, 1946 it took Pope Pius XII. as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Lorenzo in Panisperna in the College of Cardinals. 1955 took part in the first General Conference of Latin American Bishops in Rio de Janeiro. After the death of Pius XII. Cardinal Caggiano took part in the conclave in 1958. Pope John XXIII. appointed Cardinal Antonio Caggiano 1959 Archbishop of Buenos Aires.
Antonio Cardinal Caggiano took in the years 1962-1965 in the Second Vatican Council and the conclave in 1963. He represented the Pope at several celebrations as Papal Legate. The management of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires he laid in 1975 for reasons of age. Since by the motu proprio Romano Pontifici Eligendo Paul VI. all lost over 80 -year-old cardinals to vote in a conclave, he not also participated in the two conclaves of 1978. On 17 December 1978, he was serving as the senior Cardinal Priest Cardinal Proto priest. Antonio Cardinal Caggiano died on 23 October 1979 in Buenos Aires and was buried in the local cathedral.
Work
Adolf Eichmann had several years to live unmolested in Argentina under a false identity, to the Mossad came on his trail. After years of searching Israeli agents had spotted him near Buenos Aires. They arrested the organizers of the Final Solution on 11 May 1960 and took him to Israel where he was tried in Jerusalem. On May 31, 1962 Eichmann died on the gallows. Shortly before Christmas Eve, on December 23, 1960 expressed Antonio Caggiano in a newspaper about what happened: " He came into our country to seek forgiveness and forgetting. It does not matter what his name is Ricardo Klement [ code name Eichmann ] or Adolf Eichmann, our Christian duty is to forgive him for what he has done. "