Pietro Carnesecchi

Pietro Carnesecchi ( born December 24, 1508 Florence, † October 1, 1567 in Rome ) was an Italian martyrs of the Reformation.

Life

Carnesecchi was a son of Florentine merchant Andrea Carnesecchi. He was educated in the house of his uncle, Cardinal Bernardo Bibbiena Dovizi as in Rome and received a humanistic education. He was only notary, then prothonotary at the Curia and in 1533 he became secretary to Pope Clement VII Here Carnesecchi first met Juan de Valdés, whom he succeeded in 1536 to Naples, and from which he took the idea of ​​the Doctrine of Justification Martin Luther. After Valdés ' death left Carnesecchi Naples. 1537 he went to Paris and remained at the court of the French queen Catherine de Medici. There he could live safely, as Pope Paul III. protected him. In 1542, he went to Venice. Under the suspicion of spreading Protestant teachings, he was summoned to Rome, condemned for heresy, but then pardoned. His process was crushed. 1566 however, he was arrested again at the instigation of Cosimo I de 'Medici and delivered the Roman Inquisition. This time Carnesecchi was sentenced after a long process to death and beheaded; his body was burned.

Remembrance

2 October at Evangelical calendar name.