Marcantonio Bragadin (1591 – 28 March 1658) was a Venetian

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who served as

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Life

Marcantonio Bragadin was born in

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in 1591 (other sources indicate 1590 or 1594). His grandfather was

Marco Antonio Bragadin Marco Antonio Bragadin, also Marcantonio Bragadin (21 April 1523 – 17 August 1571), was a Venetian lawyer and military officer of the Republic of Venice. Bragadin joined the ''Fanti da Mar'' Corps or marines of the Republic of Venice. In 1569, ...

, famous for having been

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after the Ottoman conquest of

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in 1571. His father, Antonio, had been one of the leaders of the

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in 1607. Marcantonio completed his studies earning a

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. He initially took the political career in the

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, but already in 1624 moved to

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and became an ecclesiastic: on 28 September 1626 he was ordained

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. He took up a career in the administration of the

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: on 17 March 1627 he became

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of the Tribunals of the

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, in April to December 1627 he was governor of

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, then in 1628 governor of

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and later of

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. On 3 December 1630 Bragadin was appointed

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followed on 21 December in the

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by the hands of

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. Already on 12 January 1633 Bragadin was moved to the

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, nearer to Venice. In Ceneda he succeeded to keep exempt the town from the taxation over the near

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, and in 1634 he issued a ban prohibiting the insults to the Jews during the processions. On 3 October 1639 he was promoted

bishop of Vicenza The Diocese of Vicenza ( la, Dioecesis Vicentina) is a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Italy.

. On 16 December 1641 he was created

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with the title of

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, which was later, on 19 November 1646, modified in the title of

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, the usual title of the most prominent Venetian Cardinal in Rome. He participated to the

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. As bishop of Vicenza, he held two

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in May 1647 and April 1642. According to a contemporary, his life was exemplar and pure. A few months after the

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, he resigned as bishop of Vicenza in order to stay in Rome to support the politic of the

, of which he always remained a loyal servant. In particular during the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War he persuaded the Pope to exhort various Western European nations to send men, ships and supplies to defend

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. In exchange to this effort the Pope requested and obtained, due to mediation of Bragadin, the re-admission in 1657 of the

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s in Venice from where they had been expelled in 1606 for effect of the

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. Marcantonio Bragadin died in Rome on 28 March 1658 and was buried in the Basilica di San Marco.

Episcopal succession

References

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Life

Episcopal succession

See also

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