Giovanni Battista Casali del Drago (30 January 1838 – 17 March 1908) was an Italian cardinal and member of the Italian noble Del Drago [it] family. He was a second cousin of the Prince del Drago.
He came from a aristocratic family[1] and was related to several cardinals including Antonio Casali, Savo Millini and Mario Millini.[2] He graduated from the Roman seminary, where he completed a doctorate in utroque iuris (civil and canon law).[3]
He was ordained a priest in 1860 and went on to become a canon of the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica and private chamberlain de numero participantium of Pope Blessed Pius IX. He later became a canon of the Patriarchal Vatican Basilica and a prelate.
On November 29, 1895, he was appointed titular Latin Patriarch of Constantinople[4] with residence in the Roman Curia. He was consecrated by Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro, the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See. In June 1899 he was created cardinal-priest.[5] From 1901 to 1902 he was a Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals. He took part in the conclave of 1903.[6]
He was buried in Campo Verano.[3]
References
- ^ House of Names website, Casali Family Crest
- ^ Florida International University website, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church section, Biographical Dictionary, Pope Clement XIV, Consistory of December 12, 1770
- ^ a b Florida International University website, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church section, Biographical Dictionary, Pope Leo XIII, Consistory of June 19, 1899
- ^ Friesian website, Popes
- ^ Google Books website, Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary, by Harris M Lentz III, page 36
- ^ California State University Northridge website, Sede Vacante 1903
Bibliography
Martin Bräuer, Handbuch der Kardinäle: 1846-2012 (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014).
