200px, Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi Domenico Ginnasi (19 June 1550 in

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– 12 March 1639, in Rome) was a

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of the Roman Catholic church created by

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Biography

Ginnasi was born the third of seven children to Francesco Ginnasi, a Papal archivist, and his wife, Caterina Pallantieri. One of his younger brothers, Achille Ginnasi (1553-1594), served as Apostolic Protonotary, nominated in 1593, as governor of the County of

by Clement VIII. In 1585–86, Domenico was nominated to be governor of the territory of Campagna, which now is mostly the province of

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. Domenico was elected bishop of

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(1587-1600) in the consistory of 14 June 1587 held by

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. In Manfredonia, he founded in 1592 the Monastery of St Clair and institutes a Seminary. He next served as

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to Spain. Pope Clement elevated him to Cardinal on 9 June 1604. It is said that Domenico ministered the

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to a dying

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on 2 July 1614. Camillus was beatified in 1742. In 1630, Domenico reconstructed the medieval church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure that stood near his family's Palace in Central Rome. The church was decorated with canvases by his niece,

Caterina Ginnasi Caterina Ginnasi (1590 – 30 November 1660) was an Italian noblewoman and painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. Ginnasi was orphaned under a young age, and placed in the care of her uncle, Cardinal Domenico Ginnasi, who was the ...

. He died age of 88 from an attack of gout, and was buried in this church.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ginnasi, Domenico 1550 births 1639 deaths 17th-century Italian cardinals People from Castel Bolognese Apostolic nuncios to Spain Apostolic nuncios to the Republic of Florence