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    Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) was born March 2, 1876, to Filippo Pacelli and Virginia (Graziosi) Pacelli, in Rome, where he spent...
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    July 1860. His father Filippo Pacelli, was a solicitor (lawyer) in the Congregation of the Sacred Rota. His brother, Eugenio Pacelli, was ordained a priest...
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    His parents were Filippo Pacelli [it] (1837–1916) and Virginia (née Graziosi) Pacelli (1844–1920). His grandfather Marcantonio Pacelli [it] had been Under-Secretary...
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    Camerlengo were held concurrently by Pietro Gasparri (1916–1930), Eugenio Pacelli (1935–1939), Jean-Marie Villot (1970–1979), and by Tarcisio Bertone (2007–2013)...
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    court, private patrons and churches. His pupils, Aniello Rossi and Matteo Pacelli, assisted him in Spain. Giordano was popular at the Spanish court, and...
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    sculpted by Giacomo Manzù) Pope Pius XII's parents (Filippo (d. 1916) & Virginia (née Graziosi) Pacelli (d. 1920)); their remains were blasted off during...
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    was his eventual successor, Eugenio Pacelli, who would become Pope Pius XII. Pius XI, in fact, believed that Pacelli would be his successor and dropped...
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  • madrigals for five voices (Naples: Giovanni Battista Sottile) Asprilio Pacelli – Motets and psalms for eight voices (Frankfurt) Salustio Palmiero – First...
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    knighthood, from 1949 until 1960. Canali was born in Rieti to Marquis Filippo Canali and his wife, the Countess Leonetta Vincentini. After studying at...
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  • (1933–1935) Luigi Capotosti (1935–1936) Lorenzo Lauri (1936–1937) Eugenio Pacelli (1937–1939) (elected Pope Pius XII on March 2, 1939) 1939–1947 (No information...
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