Tommaso Martinelli
Tommaso Maria Martinelli OESA ( born February 4, 1827 in Borgo Sant'Anna, † March 30, 1888 in Rome) was Italian Cardinal.
Life
The son of Cosma Martinelli Pardini and Maddalena joined with 15 years in the Order of Augustinian Hermits in Lucca and put on 19 April 1844, the first profession from.
Martinelli was consecrated in Rome on December 22, 1849 priests. In Collegio Sant'Agostino in Rome, he worked as a lecturer. He served as rector of the student and the school. From 1856 until his appointment as a full professor in 1862 worked as an associate professor Holy Scripture at the University La Sapienza, where he taught until 1870. With the Superior General of the Order in 1862, he visited Belgium, Holland, Ireland, Bavaria and Bohemia. The brother of Sebastiano Martinelli advised the Congregation of the Index in 1864. He participated as a theologian at the First Vatican Council from 1869 to 1870 in part.
On December 22, 1873 Pius IX took. Tommaso Maria Martinelli as cardinal deacon with the titular church of San Giorgio in Velabro in the College of Cardinals. On March 12, 1874, Pope Pius appointed Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. On September 17, 1875, he was appointed Cardinal Priest of Santa Prisca. On October 18, 1877 Martinelli was appointed Prefect of the Congregation of Rites. As a cardinal, he also participated in the conclave of 1878, which Leo XIII. chose. Martinelli led the Congregation of Rites until the appointment of Prefect of the Congregation of the Index on 15 July 1878. As treasurer of the Holy College of Cardinals, he managed 15 March 1883 to 24 March 1884, the income which tion states the College of Cardinals as a whole.
On 24 March 1884 he was nominated for the Cardinal Bishop of Sabina. He received his episcopal consecration of the Secretary of the Congregation for the Holy Roman and universi elle Inquisition, Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valetta, on March 30 in the church of Sant'Agostino.
On March 30, 1888, died after a short illness Cardinal Martinelli in Rome at the age of only 59 years. His body was laid in the church of Sant'Agostino, where on April 4, held the church's funeral. Cardinal Martinelli was buried in the chapel of the Augustinian in the cemetery Campo di Verano.