Donato Maria Dell'Olio

His Eminence
Donato Maria Dell'Olio
Other posts Cardinal Priest of Santa Balbina
Orders
Created Cardinal 15 April 1901
by Pope Leo XIII
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1847-12-27)27 December 1847
Bisceglie
Died 18 January 1902(1902-01-18) (aged 54)
Benevento
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Donato Maria Dell'Olio (Bisceglie, 27 December 1847 – Benevento, 18 January 1902) was an Italian cardinal and Catholic archbishop.

Biography

He studied at the seminary in Bisceglie and then at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome where his professors included the future cardinal Tommaso Maria Zigliara. In 1873 he received the rank of Doctor of Theology.

He was ordained as a priest on 23 December 1871. In 1876 he became professor of philosophy and theology at the seminary in Bisceglie. In 1882 he founded the institute "Giovanni Bosco".

On 14 December 1891, he was elected archbishop of Rossano and on 20 December of the same year he was consecrated as bishop in Rome by cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta.

On 5 February 1898 he was promoted to Archbishop of Benevento. The diocese welcomed him on 29 May 1898. In that city he founded the Ateneo Pontificio in 1899.

In his speech at the inauguration of the institution, the cardinal said:

I have sought from the beginning, an idea, almost a dream, a dream of those who love good and cannot reach it: But now, gentlemen, that which in the beginning seemed a dream, thanks to the beneficence of Leo XIII, whom the people of Benevento hold in the utmost esteem with every thought... is a solemn reality, and is before our eyes (and you are such a great part of it), that is, the Theological-Juridicial Institute in the augmented form of a Pontifical University.

The day has come, in which you gentlemen chosen to hold the professorial chairs and you dear young boys embarking on noble studies will enter the palaistra prepared for you, the one group to spread the doctrines of the science of divinity, the other to attain them

Pope Leo XIII raised him to the rank of cardinal in the Papal consistory of 15 April 1901 and he received the titular church of Santa Balbina.

On 16 June 1901 he was in Benevento to consecrate the Basilica della Madonna delle Grazie and its altar which was "a splendid gift from the munificence of Leo XIII."

He died at Benevento at the age of 54 and his body was buried in the city of Benevento in the old cemetery of Santa Clementina.

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Preceded by
Salvatore Palmieri
Archbishop of Rossano
14 December 1891 - 5 February 1898
Succeeded by
Orazio Mazzella
Preceded by
Camillo Siciliano di Rende
Archbishop of Benevento
5 February 1898 - 18 January 1902
Succeeded by
Benedetto Bonazzi
Preceded by
Amilcare Malagola
Cardinal priest of Santa Balbina
18 April 1901 - 18 January 1902
Succeeded by
Auguste-René-Marie Dubourg
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