Pasquale Macchi

Pasquale Macchi ( born November 9, 1923 in Varese, Province of Varese, Italy, † April 5, 2006 in Milan ) was a Roman Catholic bishop and private secretary of Pope Paul VI.

Life

Macchi received after his studies on 15 June 1946, the sacrament of Holy Orders. After studying literature he learned in 1954 the new Archbishop of Milan, Giovanni Battista Montini, and became his private secretary.

According to Cardinal Montini's election to Pope Paul VI. In 1963, he followed him to the Vatican. There he was the closest confidant of Pope Paul VI. and learned among other things, the Curia Bishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus know. In addition, he established the relations between the Vatican and the banker Michele Sindona. Marcinkus and Sindona entangling the Vatican through their business activities in some affairs, such as in the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano. In the Asia trip of Pope Paul VI. he saved the Pope 's life by beating an apparently mentally disturbed assassin the knife from his hand. For the Vatican itself Macchi operated as an art collector. After the death of Paul VI. he returned as archpriest of Sacro Monte di Varese back to his hometown.

On December 10, 1988, Pope John Paul II named Prelate of Loreto. The episcopal ordination, he donated him on 6 January 1989 in the Vatican Basilica. Co-consecrators were the Curia archbishops and cardinals later Edward Idris Cassidy and Jose Sanchez. On October 7, 1996, he resigned for reasons of age and retired to a monastery in Perego ( Lecco province ), where he. Due to his previous collaboration with Paul VI was known. Ten years later, he died after a long illness at 82 years in a hospital in Milan.

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