1. Alfonso Capecelatro was an Italian Archbishop of Capua, ecclesiastical writer, Vatican librarian, and Cardinal.
11 Facts About Alfonso Capecelatro
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Alfonso Capecelatro was descended from the family of the dukes of Castelpagano.
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Alfonso Capecelatro's father served under Joachim Murat, adopted the political principles of the Napoleonic period, and voluntarily exiled himself to Malta and Marseilles, when Ferdinand I of Naples, after his restoration by the Congress of Laibach, set about the repression of political Liberalism.
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At sixteen Alfonso entered the Oratory of St Philip Neri at Naples.
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Alfonso Capecelatro was particularly drawn to Peter Damian, Catherine of Siena, Philip Neri, and Alphonsus Liguori, whose biographies he wrote.
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Alfonso Capecelatro attacked Ernest Renan's "Life of Christ", then widely circulated in Italy, and afterwards himself published a "Life of Jesus Christ".
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Alfonso Capecelatro devoted three volumes to an exposition of Catholic doctrine and two to the Christian virtues, and published several volumes of sermons.
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Alfonso Capecelatro corresponded with other Liberal Catholics, among them Manzoni, Cesare Cantu, Dupanloup, and Montalembert.
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Alfonso Capecelatro was made a cardinal by Leo XIII in 1885.
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Alfonso Capecelatro received some votes in the papal conclave of 1903.
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Alfonso Capecelatro had little influence in ecclesiastical politics, and in the end was overwhelmed by the course of events in the modernist crisis in the Catholic Church.