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'Carlo Cardinal Salotti' (July 25, 1870—October 24, 1947) was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation of Rites from 1938 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate ''in pectore'' in 1933.

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Biography

Trivia

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Biography

Born in Grotte di Castro, Carlo Salotti attended the seminary in Orvieto before going to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apollinare'' and the Royal University. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 22, 1894, and then finished his studies in 1897. While performing his pastoral ministry in Rome until 1912, Salotti became a professor at his ''alma mater'' of the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum ''S. Apollinare'' in 1902. On July 20, 1915, he was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness. He entered the Roman Curia on July 10, 1915 as assessor of the Congregation of Rites and subpromoter of the Faith, later becoming full Promoter of the Faith in 1925.
On June 30, 1930, Salotti was appointed Titular Archbishop of ''Philippopolis in Thracia'' by Pope Pius XI, and Secretary of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and rector of the Pontifical Urbaniana University four days later, on July 3. He received his episcopal consecration on the following July 6 from Willem Cardinal van Rossum, CSSR, with Bishops Luigi Olivarès, SDB, and Giovanni Rosi serving as co-consecrators, in the basilica of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio. As Secretary of Propagation of the Faith, Salotti served as the second-highest official of that dicastery, successively under Cardinals van Rossum and Fumasoni Biondi.
Salotti, heavily occupied with his Curial duties, was secretly, or ''in pectore'', elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pius XI, who wanted the former to complete his work, on March 13, 1933^[1]. He was eventually published as Cardinal Priest of ''San Bartolomeo all'Isola'' in the consistory of December 16, 1935. On September 14, 1938, Salotti was named Prefect of the Congregation of Rites, and participated in the 1939 papal conclave that selected Pope Pius XII, who advanced him to Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina on December 11, 1939.
Salotti died from a liver ailment^[2] in Rome, at age 77. He is buried in his native Grotte di Castro.

Trivia

★ During his tenure as rector of the Urbaniana University, Archbishop Salotti founded the Scientifical Missionary Institute of the same university.

★ He once praised Pope Pius XI for his dedication to missionary activity on Vatican Radio in October 1931^[3].

References

1. TIME Magazine. Three in Pectore April 11, 1960
2. TIME Magazine. Milestones November 3, 1947
3. TIME Magazine. Bathed Pages October 26, 1930

External links

★ Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church

★ Catholic-Hierarchy