Raffaele Farina

Raffaele Farina

male, 76 years old
Roman Catholic, Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican Secret Archives, episcopal consecration, Curial, Consecrator…VaticanLibrary
Raffaele Farina, SDB (born September 24, 1933) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the current Pro-Archivist and...
Angelo Mai

Angelo Mai

male, deceased (1854)
Ambrosian library, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, De republica, VaticanLibrary, Jesuit, from Lombardy
Angelo Mai (March 7, 1782-September 8, 1854) was an Italian Cardinal and philologist. He won a European reputation for publishing for the first...
Leonard Boyle

Leonard Boyle

male, deceased (1999)
Officer of the Order of Canada, university of toronto, Canadian clergy, Canadian, Irish, gaelic…VaticanLibrary
Father Leonard Eugene Boyle (November 13, 1923 - October 25, 1999) was an Irish and Canadian scholar in medieval studies and palaeography and was...
Leo Allatius

Leo Allatius

male, deceased (1669)
College of St. Athanasius, Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, Orthodox converts to Catholicism, Greek Renaissance humanist, Eastern Catholicism, calabria…VaticanLibrary
Leo Allatius (Leone Allacci), (circa 1586 - January 19, 1669) was an energetic Greek Catholic scholar and theologian. Allatius was born in Chios...
Vespasiano da Bisticci

Vespasiano da Bisticci

male, deceased (1498)
Biographer, Italian, urbino, theology, machiavelli, VaticanLibrary…Visconti Library
Vespasiano da Bisticci (Fiorentino) (1421-1498) was a Florentine humanist and librarian. He was chiefly a dealer in books, and had a share in the...

Antonio Samoré

male, deceased (1983)
librarian, from the Province of Parma, Italian, cardinalate, roman catholic church, Prelate…Second Vatican Council, VaticanLibrary, Vatican Secret Archives
Antonio Cardinal Samoré was an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and Librarian o...
Alfons Maria Stickler

Alfons Maria Stickler

male, 99 years old
clerical celibacy, Salesian of Don Bosco, cardinalate, Vatican Secret Archives, JCD, Doctor of Canon Law…VaticanLibrary
Cardinal Alfons Maria Stickler, SDB, JCD (born August 23, 1910) is an Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archivist of the...
Fra Mauro

Fra Mauro

male
astronaut, Codice Borgiano V, portolan chart, Venetian Lagoon, Heraklion, VaticanLibrary
Fra Mauro was a 15th century Italian Camaldolese monk who kept his cartography workshop in the monastery of San Michel in Isola Murano, in the...
Giovanni Battista de Rossi

Giovanni Battista de Rossi

male, deceased (1894)
Archaeologist, Italian, From Rome, Via Appia, VaticanLibrary, epigrapher
Giovanni Battista de Rossi (February 23, 1822 - 20 September 1894) was an Italian archaeologist, famous outside his field for his rediscovery of...

Jorge María Mejía

male, 86 years old
Roman Catholic bishop, Roman Catholic, Cardinal Deacon, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Titular Bishop, His eminence…VaticanLibrary, Vatican Secret Archives, Second Vatican Council
"His Eminence" Jorge María Cardinal Mejía is an Argentinian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the the Archivist Emeritus of the Vatican Se...