Aloysius "Luigi" Macchi (3 March 1832, in

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– 29 March 1907, in

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) was an Italian

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nobleman and a

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. He was a nephew of Cardinal Vincenzo Macchi. In 1859, he was ordained a priest. In 1860, he was referendary of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature of Grace.

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created him a cardinal in the consistory of 11 February 1889. As

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since 1899, Cardinal Macchi announced the election of cardinal Giuseppe Sarto as Pope Pius X at the end of the 1903 conclave and crowned him on 9 August 1903. Four years later, Cardinal Macchi died after an illness at the age of 75.

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