14 Facts About Luigi Lambruschini

Luigi Lambruschini was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church in the mid nineteenth century.

Luigi Lambruschini was a member of the Clerics Regular of St Paul and served in the diplomatic corps of the Holy See.

Luigi Lambruschini attended a Jesuit school in Santa Margherita Ligure, and then the Oratorio di San Bartolomeo in Bordighera, run by the Order of the Barnabites.

Luigi Lambruschini then taught Barnabite seminarians rhetoric, philosophy and mathematics, first in Bologna, then in San Severino Marche and, from May 1801, in Macerata.

Luigi Lambruschini attended the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as secretary to Cardinal Ercole Consalvi.

Luigi Lambruschini was made a cardinal in 1831, given the titular church of San Callisto on 24 February 1832.

Luigi Lambruschini's appointment was seen as a compromise between those who hoped for reform and the zealanti who wished to see dissent more forcefully suppressed; although it was said that the Cardinal was "liberal chiefly in his employment of spies and prisons".

Luigi Lambruschini was the leading conservative candidate in the 1846 papal conclave.

Luigi Lambruschini was eventually defeated by the liberal candidate, Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, the Archbishop of Imola, who became Pope Pius IX.

Luigi Lambruschini was a particularly hated figure among the masonic republicans during the 1848 Revolutions that temporarily deposed Pope Pius IX.

Luigi Lambruschini's house was ransacked and he was forced to flee for his life, disguised as a stablehand.

Luigi Lambruschini died in Rome on 12 May 1854 and was buried in the Barnabite church of San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome.

Raffaello Luigi Lambruschini was an Italian politician, religious, agronomist, and educator.

Bartolomeo Luigi Lambruschini married Bianca Nicolini.