Arcadio María Larraona Saralegui, C.M.F. (13 November 1887 – 7 May 1973) was a Spanish cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as

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of the Sacred Congregation of Rites from 1962 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1959.

Biography

Larraona Saralegui was born in Oteiza de la Solana,

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, to Patricio Larraona and his wife Bartolina Saralegui. He was the second of five children, his siblings being named Luis, Digna, Amparito (who died in infancy), and Amparo. Entering the

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in 1899, Larraona Saralegui received his

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on 28 July 1902, and professed his final

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on 8 December 1903. After attending the

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, he was

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to the priesthood by Archbishop Juan Soldevilla y Romero on 10 June 1911. Larraona Saralegui left for Rome on the following 24 October to study at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apollinare'' (from where he obtained his doctorate in canon and civil law) and the University of Rome. At his alma mater of the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apoillinare'', he was made professor of institutions and history of civil law in 1919, and later served as professor of

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for forty years. Within the Claretians, he held the posts of

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of the Italian province, visitor to Germany, and general assistant to Italy, Central Europe, and China. He was appointed consultor, in the Roman Curia, of the Sacred Congregation of the Oriental Churches on 8 October 1929, and of the Sacred Congregation of Religious on 3 December of that same year. He was made undersecretary (27 November 1943) and later secretary (11 December 1949) of the Congregation of Religious. Before naming him as

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on 13 August 1961,

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created him

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of '' Ss. Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari'' in the

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of 14 December 1959. He thus became the first Claretian member of the

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; he required the permission of his order to change his brown habit for scarlet robes, provided they were made of

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. On 12 February 1962, Cardinal Larraona Saralegui was advanced to

of the Sacred Congregation of Rites and, in preparation of the

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, president of the Pontifical Commission of the Sacred Liturgy. Cardinal Larraona Saralegui was appointed

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of ''Diocaesarea in Isauria'' on 5 April 1962, and received his

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on the following 19 April from Pope John, with Cardinals Giuseppe Pizzardo and

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serving as

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, in the

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. He resigned as titular archbishop, on 20 April of that same year. Attending all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, he served as a cardinal elector in the

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that selected

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. Larraona Saralegui, who had acquired the reputation of being sternly conservative,''Time''
"Changing the Old Guard"
19 January 1968. was

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, or the most senior cardinal-deacon, from 26 June 1967 to 28 April 1969. He resigned as prefect of rites on 9 January 1968, and later exercised his right as a cardinal-deacon of ten years' standing to become a

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(receiving the title of '' S. Cuore di Maria'' in the

of 28 April 1969). Cardinal Larraona Saralegui died on 7 May 1973 at 10:10 am after a six-day broncho

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infection in the Roman headquarters of the Claretians, at age 85. He is buried in the chapel of S. Giuseppe in the

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of Sacro Cuore di Maria, according to his will.

Trivia

*He participated in the preparation of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. *While a priest, he also taught at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and the "Scuola Pratica" of the Sacred Congregation of Religious. *Larraona Saralegui prepared the particular law of his congregation at its

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in 1922. *He collaborated in the preparation of the apostolic constitutions "Provida Mater Ecclesia" of 2 February 1947; "Sponsa Christi" of 21 November 1950; and "Sedes Sapientiæ of 31 May 1956. *Before dying he received a papal blessing. *During his body's exposition in the chapel of ''Collegio Claretianum'' on

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, visitors included the Pope, numerous cardinals and Curial officials, diplomats to the

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, and many Spanish priests and

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. *A street in

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, the capital city of

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, is named after him.

References

* O'Malley, John, ''What Happened at Vatican II'', Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2008.

External links

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