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RARE \"Italian Cardinal\" Giuseppe Ferretto Signed 4X6 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Italian Cardinal" Giuseppe Ferretto Hand Signed 4X6 Card. 

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Giuseppe Antonio Ferretto (9

March 1899 – 17 March 1973) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who

served as Major Penitentiary in

the Roman Curia from 1967 to 1973, and was elevated to the

rank of cardinal in 1961. Ferretto

was born in Rome to Tommaso and Adele (née Stazi) Ferretto. He

studied at the Pontifical Roman Seminary (minor

and major branches), the Pontifical Lateran University (where

he obtained and civil law),

and the Pontifical Institute of Christian the priesthood on

24 February 1923, Ferretto finished his studies in 1926 and then taught at the

Pontifical Lateran University and the Pontifical Urbaniana University until

1958. He served as an official in the Vicariate of Rome from 1929 to 1939, when he was made

a referendary of the Apostolic Signatura on

23 April. Before becoming a canon of St. Peter's Basilica on

1 May 1953, he was named substitute (7 June 1943) and later assessor (27 June

1950) of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation.

He was also a noted archaeologist. On 14 December 1958,

Ferretto was appointed Titular Archbishop of Serdica by Pope John XXIII. He received his episcopal consecration in St. Peter's Basilica on

the following 27 December from Pope John, with Bishops Girolamo Bortignon, OFM Cap and

Gioacchino Muccin serving as co-consecrators. Ferretto was named Secretary of the College of Cardinals on

20 January 1959. He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme by

Pope John in the consistory of 16

January 1961. There had been speculation that he had been one of the cardinals

appointed in pectore on 28 March 1960, but

he would have gotten seniority dating back to that 1960 consistory if the in pectore appointment was true. Ferretto was named

Cardinal Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto on 26 March 1961. Pope John had

recently changed the way cardinals were raised to the rank of cardinal bishop.

Previously, only the senior cardinal dean and the senior cardinal priest had

the right to the title of cardinal bishop when one of the sees assigned to a

cardinal bishop became vacant. Pope John made the appointment the prerogative

of the pope without reference to seniority within the College of Cardinals.

While the older method had ensured that only senior clerics of advanced age

held the title of cardinal bishop, Pope John's first appointment under the new

rule was Ferretto, who had just turned 62. He attended the Second Vatican Council from

1962 to 1965. He participated in the 1963 papal

conclave, where he was also thought to be a possible candidate for

election to the papacy. He was appointed Major Penitentiary on

7 April 1967. Pope Paul named him a participant in the first post-Vatican

II Synod of Bishops in

1967. On 1 March 1973, he resigned as Major Penitentiary. Ferretto died on

17 March 1973 in Rome, at age 74. He had been suffering from a heart condition.

He is buried in the church of Immacolata e S. Benedetto Giuseppe Labre a via

Taranto. 

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