1. Annibale Bugnini was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as secretary of the commission that worked on the reform of the Roman Rite following the Second Vatican Council.
12 Facts About Annibale Bugnini
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Annibale Bugnini was born in Civitella del Lago in Umbria.
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Annibale Bugnini completed his doctorate in sacred theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in 1938 with a dissertation entitled De liturgia eiusque momento in Concilio Tridentino.
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Annibale Bugnini spent ten years in parish work in a suburb of Rome.
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Annibale Bugnini later became a professor at the Pontifical Lateran University.
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Annibale Bugnini was named secretary of the Pontifical Preparatory Commission on the Liturgy.
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Annibale Bugnini was appointed the secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship by Pope Paul in May 1969.
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In 1979, Annibale Bugnini tried unsuccessfully to obtain, in the name of the Pope, the release of the American hostages being held at the United States embassy by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Annibale Bugnini met with Khomeini to deliver Pope John Paul II's appeal for the release of the hostages.
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Annibale Bugnini died of natural causes at the Pope Pius XI Clinic in Rome on 3 July 1982.
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The oft-repeated allegation of Annibale Bugnini being a Freemason was first made in print by Italian essayist Tito Casini in his book Nel Fumo di Satana.
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Casini claimed that according to an anonymous source, Annibale Bugnini left a briefcase in a conference room.