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Antonino Zecchini
Antonino Zecchini (7 December 1864 – 17 March 1935) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the Baltic nations from 1921 to 1935 as a diplomat and Church administrator; he became an archbishop in 1922. He devoted the first half of his career from 1892 to 1920 to pastoral work, preaching and education in the Italian and Slovenian regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Training and ministry in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Antonino Zecchini was born on 7 December 1864 in Visco, a town now in the Province of Udine, Italy, then part of the Austrian Empire. He studied in Gorizia. He entered the Jesuits and studied at their novitiates in France and Spain. He wrote that he hoped to work in mission countries, especially "the Austrian coast because I like the Friulian, Italian, German and Slovenian languages". From 1883 to 1886 he studied philosophy in Portorè; from 1887 to 1890 he taught Latin and Greek at the Jesuit high school in Zadar. He was ordained a priest in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visco, Italy
Visco ( fur, Visc) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about southeast of Udine. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 723 and an area of .All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat. Visco borders the following municipalities: Aiello del Friuli, Bagnaria Arsa, Palmanova, San Vito al Torre. Notable people *Ferruccio Tassin ''(historic, writer, cultural operator)''; *Giordano Pazzut ''(holy music composer )''; *Rodolfo Del Mestri ''(painter)''; *Pierre Bosco ''(painter)''; *Giovanni Minut ''(poet)''; *Eduard Michael Avian ''(born in Visco 6 August 1877; construction company in Klagenfurt Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16. Jänner 2008, Stück 1, Nr. 1: ''Gesetz vom 25. Oktober 2007, mit dem die Kärntner Landesverfassung und das Klagenfurter Stadtrecht 1998 geändert werden.'/ref> (; ; sl, Celovec), usually .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolic Nunciature To Lithuania
The Apostolic Nunciature to Lithuania is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador. Representatives of the Holy See ;Apostolic delegates to the Baltic States *Edward O'Rourke (8 December 1920 – December 1921) * Antonino Zecchini (20 October 1922 – 7 December 1925) ;Apostolic internuncios *Lorenzo Schioppa (10 March 1927 – 30 April 1928) * Riccardo Bartoloni (30 April 1928 – 9 April 1933) **He supported the local clergy's struggle to protect the independence of the lay Catholic organization Catholic Action from government control. For this he was declared ''persona non grata'' and expelled from the country in the summer of 1931. ;Apostolic nuncios * Luigi Centoz (19 February 1940 – 24 August 1940) *Justo Mullor García (30 November 1991 – 2 April 1997) *Erwin Josef Ender (9 July 1997 – 19 May 2001) *Peter Stephan Zurbriggen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolic Nuncios To Estonia
Apostolic may refer to: The Apostles An Apostle meaning one sent on a mission: *The Twelve Apostles of Jesus, or something related to them, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles *Apostolic succession, the doctrine connecting the Christian Church to the original Twelve Apostles *The Apostolic Fathers, the earliest generation of post-Biblical Christian writers *The Apostolic Age, the period of Christian history when Jesus' apostles were living *The '' Apostolic Constitutions'', part of the Ante-Nicene Fathers collection Specific to the Roman Catholic Church *Apostolic Administrator, appointed by the Pope to an apostolic administration or a diocese without a bishop *Apostolic Camera, or "Apostolic Chamber", former department of finance for Papal administration * Apostolic constitution, a public decree issued by the Pope *Apostolic Palace, the residence of the Pope in Vatican City *Apostolic prefect, the head of a mission of the Roman Catholic Church *The Apostolic See, sometimes us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From The Province Of Udine
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Deaths
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 Births
Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. * February – John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. * February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine ''H. L. Hunl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2021 IIHF World Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). In 2017, it was named the European Region of Gastronomy. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard Profittlich
Eduard Gottlieb Profittlich, Society of Jesus, SJ (11 September 1890, in Grafschaft, Rhineland, Birresdorf, village near Koblenz, German Empire – 22 February 1942, in Kirov, Kirov Oblast, Kirov, Soviet Union) was a Jesuit Germany, German Catholic Church, Catholic archbishop, Apostolic Administrator, apostolic administrator of Estonia, victim of Soviet persecution, martyr and servant of God. Biography Early years Profittlich was born on 11 September 1890 in Birresdorf, German Empire. He was the eighth of ten children born to peasant farmers, Markus Profittlich (1846-1920) and Dorothea Seiwert (1850-1913). After finishing elementary school in Grafschaft, Rhineland, Leimersdorf, in 1904 he was prepared by a local parish priest to take up further education in Ahrweiler. In 1909, he moved to the school in Linz am Rhein, graduating from high school in 1912 and receiving a Matura, secondary school certificate and entered the seminary of Trier, but did not graduate. His parents wanted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolic Administration Of Estonia
The Apostolic Administration of Estonia is a Latin, territorial Catholic ''circonscription'' (ecclesiastical jurisdiction) that covers the entire country of Estonia. It is an apostolic administration (quasi-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Latin Roman Catholic church in Estonia, hence is exempt (i.e. directly subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province) and has its cathedral episcopal see, the St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral, in the national capital Tallinn. The post of apostolic administrator has often been held by titular archbishops, combining it with papal diplomatic posts in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. History In 1918, when Estonia gained independence, its citizens had complete freedom of religion. The Holy See recognized Estonia on 10 October 1921. The Apostolic Administration of Estonia was established on November 1, 1924, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Schioppa
Lorenzo Schioppa (10 November 1871 – 23 April 1935) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He became an archbishop in 1920 and served as Apostolic Nuncio in Hungary, the Netherlands, and Lithuania. Biography Lorenzo Schioppa was born on 10 November 1871 in Naples, Italy. He was ordained on 18 April 1891. His early assignments in the diplomatic service took him to the nunciature in Bavaria beginning in November 1912, where he worked for Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, during the Bolshevik takeover in Munich in 1918–1919. On 10 August 1920, Pope Benedict XV appointed him titular archbishop of Mocissus and Apostolic Nuncio to Hungary. He received his episcopal consecration on 22 August 1920 from Cardinal Andreas Frühwirth. On 3 May 1925, Pope Pius XI named him Apostolic Internuncio to the Netherlands. On 10 March 1927, Pope Pius gave him the additional responsibility of the first Apostolic Internuncio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. During the interwar period, it served as the temporary capital of Lithuania, when Vilnius was seized and controlled by Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas was celebrated for its rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco and Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural-style buildings as well as popular furniture, the interior design of the time, and a widespread café culture. The city interwar architecture is regarded as among the finest examples of European Art Deco and has received the European Heritage Label. It contributed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Frühwirth
Andreas Frühwirth, (21 August 1845 – 9 February 1933) was an Austrian friar of the Dominican Order. He was promoted to the rank of cardinal of the Catholic Church and served as the Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiary. Life He was born Franz Frühwirth in the village of St. Anna am Aigen, located in the Province of Styria, Austria. His last name is also listed as Frühwirt. Education Frühwirth joined the Dominican Order on 13 September 1863 in Graz and received the religious name of Andreas. He was professed on 14 September 1864. He studied at the Dominican houses of studies where he studied philosophy and theology. Later he studied at the College of St Thomas in Rome, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'' in Rome from 1869 to 1870. He completed the exam for Lectorate at the College in 1870.http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl_1/375.pdf; http://www.biographien.ac.at/oebl_1/376.pdf 22 June 2014 Priesthood Frühwirth was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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