Agostino Richelmy (29 November 1850 – 10 August 1923) was an Italian

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of the

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who served as

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, Agostino Richelmy received his

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on 13 August 1857 and later joined the Garibaldian Volunteers in the

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, wearing his red shirt under his

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for years afterwards."Milestones"
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''. 20 August 1923. He attended

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and studied at the

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in Turin, from where he obtained his doctorate in theology on 18 May 1876. He was

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to the priesthood on 25 April 1873 and finished his studies three years later. Within the

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al examiner, and was a

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of the

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chapter.

Episcopate

On 7 June 1886 he was appointed

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. Richelmy received his

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on the following 28 October from Cardinal

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, with Bishops Davide Riccardi and Giovanni Bertagna serving as

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. He was later named

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in the

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of 18 June 1899. After participating in the 1903 papal conclave, Richelmy's cardinalatial church was transferred to

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on 27 November 1911. He was one of the

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in the conclave of 1914, and

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in that of 1922, which selected

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and

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respectively. In 1915, when

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entered

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, Richelmy organized priests for duty as

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s in the mountains of

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, where they carved altars out of snow and said

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in below-zero temperatures. The Cardinal died in Turin, at age 72. He was initially buried at the chapel for the clergy in the Turin cemetery, but his remains were transferred in 1927 to the

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, where they lie in a pink marble sarcophagus. Richelmy succeeded Davide Riccardi, who assisted in the former's episcopal consecration, as both Bishop of Ivrea and Archbishop of Turin.

References

Sources

* * Vaudagnotti, Attilio (1926). ''Il cardinale Agostino Richelmy''. Torino, Roma: Marietti, 1926.

External links

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