10 Facts About Prospero Caterini

Prospero Caterini was born in Onano, diocese of Acquapendente in the region of Lazio in what was then the Papal States.

Prospero Caterini's parents were Francesco Caterini and Maria Domenica Pacelli both from noble families.

The name "Prospero Caterini" was taken due to the family's devotion to St Catherine of Alexandria.

Those with the surname Prospero Caterini later became part of the nobility of Nocera Umbra, Acquapendente and Onano.

Near Grotte di Castro in the vicinity of Lake Bolsena, the Prospero Caterini family had a castle, the Castle of Santa Cristina where the young seminarian Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII would spend his holidays in the company of the Pacelli-Prospero Caterini families.

Prospero Caterini served as the substitute secretary of the Sacred Congregation Consistorial and was later the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Studies.

Prospero Caterini was a canon of Saint Peter's Basilica and became an Assessor of the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition.

Prospero Caterini became Cardinal-Protodeacon on 6 November 1876 upon the death of the incumbent protodeacon Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli.

Prospero Caterini participated as a cardinal-elector in the conclave of 1878.

Prospero Caterini died on 28 October 1881 and after the wake held at his deaconry, was buried at the chapel of the confraternity of the Most Precious Blood in Campo Verano cemetery in Rome.