Merry Del Val

Rafael Merry del Val
Biography
Birth	10 October 1865 in London ( Great Britain )
Deaths	26 February 1930
Priestly Ordination	30 October 1888
Bishop of the Catholic Church
Episcopal	6 May 1900 by card. Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
Episcopal functions	President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy Secretary of the Secretariat of State Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office
Cardinal of the Catholic Church
Created cardinal	9 November 1903 by Pope Pius X
Title	Cardinal-priest of S. Prassede
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Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta Wilcox, born 10 October 1865 and died on 26 February 1930 , was a cardinal of the Catholic Church.

Biography

Son of the Marquis Rafael Merry del Val, Spanish diplomat, and Josefina de Zulueta Rafael Merry del Val was born in London October 10, 1865. He was educated in London and Belgium, and felt very early desire to become a priest. In 1885, by order of Pope Leo XIII, he entered the Academy of noble church , institution that trains future leaders in Rome for Vatican diplomacy and not the Scots College where he was enrolled. He obtained two doctorates (philosophy and theology) at the Pontifical Gregorian University , and a bachelor of canon law.

Leo XIII , who had quickly distinguished, appointed him chamberlain supernumerary secret from the age of 22 years even though he was not ordained seminarian and priest, which gave right to the title of "Monsignor" and decorate his cassock with purple. The pope gave the new ^Monsignor Merry del Val, multilingual European accomplished various missions of representation, including that of the papal delegation sent to London to mark the jubilee of Queen Victoria when he accompanied Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli who spoke not English.

On 30 December 1888 he was ordained priest by Cardinal Lucido Parocchi , vicar of Rome and began managing a career in papal diplomacy. He was secretary of nuncio in Germany and Austria-Hungary (1888-1889) but returned to Rome to join the papal administration in 1891 in the entourage of the Pope's closest aides.

Part, as secretary of the commission to study the validity of Anglican orders (1896), his personal position was, like the English Catholic hierarchy, hostile to their recognition, the commission concluded in the negative, a single vote, on the ground (still hotly debated) the termination of the apostolic succession by changing the rite of consecration of bishops.

Because of its excellent language skills, he was appointed apostolic visitor to Canada (1897-1898) where he met French bishops to Montreal and the English bishops in Toronto. Domestic Prelate of His Holiness , in 1898 he was appointed consultor of the Congregation Index and the following year became president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy , a position he held until 1903.

At age 34, he was elected titular archbishop of Nicea and 6 May 1900 consecrated by Cardinal Rampolla , Secretary of State of Leo XIII. The new pope chose to represent him at the coronation of King Edward VII in 1901. On the death of Leo XIII, he was appointed secretary of the conclave (to replace at short notice ^Bishop Volpini, as secretary died suddenly a few days earlier), a function that he changed his ecclesiastical career. Indeed, the new Pope Pius X who spoke only Italian, had never been out of Italy, had no international experience and knew nothing of the Curia or the workings of the Holy See , insisted on keeping with him since the night of his election and was appointed pro-secretary of State.

A few months later, in November 1903 he was created cardinal priest under St. Praxde and appointed secretary of state title, combining this function with those of prefect of the Congregation of Loreto and the Apostolic Palace. At age 38, he was the youngest Secretary of State Cardinal of the Church today. He held that position until the death of Pope Pius X, whom he served throughout his pontificate with a fervor and zeal exceptional.

Formidable diplomat and conservative anti-modernist intransigence (as the Cardinals Louis Billot and Gaetano de Lai and all the entourage of Pope Pius X), Merry del Val tracked modernists with a relentless fury, while distancing himself from the "Sodalitium Pianum "(better known as the Pine Forest ), a secret society of informers and spies led by cleric ^MonsignorUmberto Benigni .

In 1914, the death of Pius X , he was immediately dismissed by the new Pope Benedict XV , who did not remained as secretary of state and took to replace Cardinal Domenico Ferrata , open man and skillful negotiator. Cardinal Merry del Val was jointly appointed archpriest of the Vatican Basilica (succeeding his rival, Cardinal Rampolla died at the same time), prefect of the Fabric of St Peter and prefect of the Congregation of the Holy Office , October 14, 1914 , great doctrinal dicastery surveillance he conducted until his death. Merry del Val, and saw himself relegated to honorary positions and doctrinal or administrative, with no possibility of real influence on policy of the Holy See. He continued to perform representative tasks - such as papal legate for the seventh centenary of Francis of Assisi (1920) - roles he filled with distinction.

On the death of Pope Benedict XV in 1922, he collected the votes of conservative conclave that elected Pope Pius XI , Pope confirmed his duties entrusted to him but not others.

Merry del Val died in Rome, February 26, 1930, following a transaction related to an attack of appendicitis and, according to his wishes, was buried in the Vatican Grottoes "closest possible Pius X". His trial for beatification was opened on February 26th 1953 by Pope Pius XII , at the instigation of Cardinal Nicola Canali , former private secretary and close friend of Merry del Val. He was declared " Servant of God ", the first of three steps leading to the canonization , but the process is currently suspended.

Bibliography

Works and Works

• The Truth of Papal claims. A reply to The validity of papal claims by F. Nutcombe Oxenham, London, 1902
• Memories of Pope Pius X, Westminster, 1931
• Pio X. Impressioni e ricordi, Padua 1949
• Pensieri asceticism, Rome, 1953

Music

Musician and pianist, pupil of the composer and pianist Isaac Albeniz when his father was ambassador in Brussels , Raffaele Merry Del Val wrote including motets.

• Raffaele Merry Del Val and Lorenzo Perosi, Inni, Mottet e Canzoni, ed. Audiovisivi San Paolo Srl, 1994

Biographies

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

• Emile Poulat, Rafael Merry del Val, in Encyclopdia Universalis
• Johannes Grohe, Rafael Merry del Val, in-Biographisch bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, vol. 5, Herzberg, 1993, col. 1331-1333, online article

Hagiography

Biographies devoted to R. Merry del Val are essentially hagiographic, like those devoted to Pius XI , the most acceptable are those of P. Censi and JM Javierre

• (It) Censi Pio, Il Cardinale Merry del Val Raffaele ed. Roberto Berrutti, 1933 (900 pages, many pictures)
• (It) Vigilio Dalpiaz, attraverso una porpora. He Cardinal Merry del Val, ed. R. Berruti, 1935
• (It) Girolamo Dal Gal, The Cardinal Merry del Val, segretario di Stato del Beato Pio X, ed. Paoline, 1953
• Hary Mitchel, Cardinal Merry del Val, ed. Paris-Books, 1956
• (In) Maria Cecilia Buehrle, Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, ed. Sands and Co., 1957
• (In) Sr. Mary Bernetta Quinn, Give me souls, a life of Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val, ed. Newman Press, 1958;
• (Es) Javierre Jose M., Mr Merry del Val, ed. Juan Flores, 1963

Structures historians

• Emile Poulat, Catholicism and Fundamentalism in full. A secret network antimodernist International: "The Pine Forest" (1909-1921), ed. Casterman, Paris, 1969

Articles

• Gary Lease, Merry del Val and Tyrrell: Modernist Struggle has, in Downside Review, No. 102, 1984, pp. 133-156
• Dick JA, Cardinal Merry del Val & the Malines Conversations in Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses 62:44, eds. Peeters, 1986, pp. 333-355

Texts

• Jean de Bonnefon, Lyrics French and Roman journal published between 1904 and 1907

Fiction

• Jules Romains , Mission to Rome Series Men of Good Will , Volume XIII, ed. GF Flammarion, 1937

This "fiction" is based on concrete facts are known in Rome as the Romans says Jules in a letter written to an unidentified correspondent (see Cahiers Romains, Flammarion 1985 Page 345)

• Gerard Bavoux, bearer of light - The mysteries of black Vatican, Paris, Pygmalion, 1996

See also

Related articles

• Cardinal Secretary of State

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References

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