Thursday, June 2, 2011
An Eminent De Girolami!
Not this one, of course, but I've recently discovered that there is a Cardinal in my genealogical past.
Raffaele Cosimo de'Girolami was a Cardinal (1743-48) during the papacy of Benedict XIV (1740-58). De Girolami (or de Girolami, or the older de'Girolami -- all meaning roughly 'of the house of, or of the family of, Jerome') is, as you may perhaps have guessed, not an especially common name around here. Interestingly enough, it is only a little more common in Italy. After making some familial inquiries with some Tuscan relatives and doing some leg-work, I think I've managed to trace him as an ancestor.
This site says that Cardinal de'Girolami was Prefect of the R.C. of Indulgences (hmmm...not so good...) and Sacred Relics (better!!) and that he founded an academy of theology in a gymnasium in Rome. It also says that he was "a famous theologian" but I suspect fame is being assessed generously.
At all events, if anybody knows about or has heard of anything that Cardinal de'Girolami ever wrote, I'd be most grateful for a comment or note.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/06/an-eminent-de-girolami.html