Evaristo Lucidi (4 October 1866 – 31 March 1929) was an Italian cardinal of the

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. He served as

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of the Apostolic Signatura from 1916 to 1923, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1923.

Biography

Lucidi was born in

Montefranco Montefranco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 70 km southeast of Perugia and about 10 km northeast of Terni. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,329 and an are ...

, and studied at the

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, Pontifical Roman Athenaeum S. Apollinare, and University of Rome. Following his

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to the priesthood, he did pastoral work in

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, and served as

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of the Institute of S. Girolamo degli Schiavoni for twenty years. Lucidi was raised to the rank of

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adjunct for Provincial Councils on 19 September 1902, and

of the Commission for the Revision of Provincial Councils on 15 April 1904. Before becoming a papal

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on 20 March 1926, Lucidi was made assessor of the Sacred Congregation of the Council in 1905. He was named

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-secretary of the financial section of the

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on 20 October 1908. On 8 December 1916, Lucidi was appointed secretary of the Apostolic Signatura, as well as papal

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and

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, by

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. He was later named a protonotary apostolic on 13 December 1917. Pope Pius XI created him

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of S. Adriano al Foro in the

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of 20 December 1923. In 1924, Cardinal Lucidi acted as papal legate to the Emilian Eucharistic Congress in

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. Lucidi died from heart disease and influenza"Milestones"
''Time''. 8 April 1929. in Rome, at the age of 62. He was initially buried in the

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of Propaganda Fide at the

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cemetery, but his remains were later transferred to the

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of his native Montefranco, which he had helped to restore, on 21 June 1929.

Trivia

*The only other cleric elevated to the

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in the same consistory as Lucidi was

Aurelio Galli Aurelio Galli (26 February 1866 – 26 March 1929) was an Italian prelate and Cardinal-Deacon A cardinal ( la, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally 'cardinal of the Holy Roman Church') is a senior member of the clergy of the Cat ...

, who died five days before him.

References

External links

Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lucidi, Evaristo 1866 births 1929 deaths 20th-century Italian cardinals Pontifical Roman Seminary alumni People from the Province of Terni