Pietro Marini (5 October 1794 - 19 August 1863) was a Catholic

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Biography

Pietro Marini was born in 1794 in Rome, in what was then the

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. He was the son of

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architect Francesco Saverio Marini and Irene De Dominicis. Marini was baptised in the patriarchal Vatican basilica in 1794; his godfather was Cardinal Gregorio Barnaba Chiaramonti, O.S.B.Cas., the future Pope Pius VII. Marini is an ancestor of Cardinal Niccolò Marini. Marini studied

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s and

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at the

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from 1804 to 1810; then, at ''

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'', Rome, obtaining a doctorate ad honorem in utroque iure (both canon and civil law) on 24 July 1816. He also obtained the title of advocate at the Roman Curia. Marini served as a civil assessor of the province of the

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from 1817 to 1820; before being named patrician of Ravenna by the city in 1820. He received the ecclesiastical

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in 1821. After this he became referendary of the Tribunals of the

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of Justice and of Grace on 9 September 1821. He was created

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. From March 1822 he served as a relator of the

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. He was also a member of the Congregation of the

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. He served as auditor of Cardinal Camerlengo

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from 1823 to 1824. He was an honorary member of the literary Academy of San Luca from 1824, a voting member of the Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature of Justice, 1824-1825, an Auditor of the

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, and Auditor of the

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(8 October 1826). He was appointed governor of Rome, vice-

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and director general of police on 22 April 1845, serving until 21 December 1846. He was

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to the priesthood on 27 May 1844.Pietro Cardinal Marini
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, receiving the

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on 23 December 1846 and being given the deaconary of

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on 12 April 1847. His cardinalitial motto was ''

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''. Cardinal Marini served as apostolic legate in the province of Forlì (29 October 1847), Prefect of the economy of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide and president of the Camera degli Spoglie (18 March 1852), Protector of the city of Urbino (5 June 1852), Protector of the city of Forlimpopoli (9 June 1856), Prefect of the Tribunal of the Signature of Justice (3 February 1858), Protector of the city of Fabriano (4 December 1858). He resided in the Collegio San Carlo ai Catinari. He died on 19 August 1863 in Rome. After lying in state in the church of San Carlo ai Catinari, the funeral took place on 24 August 1863, with Pope Pius IX participating. He is buried in his deaconry of San Nicola in Carcere.

References

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