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unusual facts about Propaganda Fide



CICM Missionaries

On seeking ecclesiastical permission, however, they were commissioned by Cardinal Alessandro Barnabò, Prefect of the Propaganda Fide, to begin their work by founding a seminary in Belgium to supply priests for the beginning mission, and laid the foundations of the Scheutveld College, 28 April 1863, in the Field of Scheut, a short distance from Brussels, so the C.I.C.M. missionaries were also known as Scheutists or Scheut missionaries.

Matteo Ripa

Matteo Ripa (29 March 1682, Eboli – 29 March 1746, Naples) was an Italian priest who was sent as a missionary to China by Propaganda Fide, and between 1711 to 1723 worked as a painter and copper-engraver at the Manchu court of the well-known Kangxi Emperor.


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Cardinals created by Gregory XVI

# Angelo Mai, secretary of S. C. Propaganda Fide (in pectore, published on 12 February 1838) – cardinal priest of S. Anastasia (received the title on 15 February 1838), died 9 September 1854

Filippo Camassei

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 10 April from Cardinal Girolamo Maria Gotti, OCD, with Archbishops Pietro Gasparri and Edmund Stonor serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Urbanian Athenaeum De Propaganda Fide.

Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh

This project dated back to 1670, when it was instigated by the secretary of Propaganda Fide, Monsignor Baldeschi, who, along with Cardinal Altieri, were among his most influential friends and contacts in the city.

Giovanni Simeoni

Simeoni received his episcopal consecration on the following April 4 from Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, with Archbishops Edward Henry Howard and Pietro Villanova Castellacci serving as co-consecrators, in the chapel of the Pontifical Urban Athenaeum of Propaganda Fide.

Malachia Ormanian

He joined the Armenian Uniate Catholic Church, then studied in Rome, serving as an Armenian teacher to The Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide and was present at First Vatican Council.