{{Short description|Italian prelate}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |image = Augusto Theodoli.png |caption = Theodoli in 1885. |honorific_prefix = His Eminence |name = Augusto Theodoli |title = Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Scala |church = Roman Catholic Church |appointed = 10 June 1886 |term_end = 22 January 1897 |predecessor = Pietro Lasagni |successor = Girolamo Maria Gotti |cardinal = 7 June 1886 |created_cardinal_by = Pope Leo XIII |rank = Cardinal-Deacon |birth_name = Augusto Theodoli |birth_date = 18 September 1819 |birth_place = Rome, Papal States |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1892|06|26|1819|09|18}} |death_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy |buried = Campo Verano |parents = Giacomo Theodoli<br>Maria Camassei |motto = ''Vicissim incumbimus victoriæ'' }}
'''Augusto Theodoli''' (18 September 1819 – 26 June 1892) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who, as the son of a noble family, filled assignments that associated him closely with the papal household, ceremonies, and basilicas. He became a cardinal in 1889.
==Biography== Augustine Theobaldi was born in Rome on 18 September 1819, into a noble family. He was related to Cardinal Mario Theodoli (1601–1650). Though his behavior when young would not have suggested it, he chose a clerical career.
During the reign of Pope Gregory XVI, he became a canon of Santa Maria Maggiore. Under Pope Pius IX, in 1847, he became a canon of the Lateran Basilica.<ref name=calen>{{cite book |language= fr, it | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PTypalK8kLcC&pg=PA114 | page = 114 | access-date = 31 January 2021 | chapter = Augusto Teodoldi [sic] |title = Calendario ecclesiastico | date = 1890 }}</ref> In 1850, he was charged with delivering the red biretta to the new Cardinal {{ill|Maximilian Sommerau-Beeckh|de|Maximilian Joseph Gottfried von Sommerau Beeckh}}, archbishop of Olmutz, in Vienna.<ref name=tablet/>
He was relator of the Sacred Consulta from 1856 to 1866 and became auditor of the Apostolic Signatura on 26 January 1866.
On 9 June 1866, he became financial secretary of the Congregation of the Reverend Fabric of St. Peter, the curial department responsible for the maintenance and decoration of St. Peter's Basilica. In that position, he played a role in organizing the celebration of the 18th centennial of the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul, the First Vatican Council, the restoration of the colonnade, the replating with lead of the dome, and the renovation of the chapel of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the choir.<ref name=calen/>
In 1874, while he was on holiday outside Rome at Certosa di Trisulti, he was captured by bandits and had to pay a large ransom to secure his release.<ref name=tablet>{{cite news | access-date = 2 February 2021 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wtupPYyFAyAC&pg=PA57 | page= 57 | work = The Tablet | date= 9 July 1892 | title = Correspondence: Rome }}</ref>
On 30 March 1882, he was appointed majordomo and prefect of the Pontifical Palaces.<ref name=calen/> Pope Leo XIII created him a cardinal deacon in the consistory of 7 June 1886;<ref>{{cite book | access-date = 2 February 2021 | title = Acta Sanctae Sedis | url =http://www.vatican.va/archive/ass/documents/ASS-18-1885-ocr.pdf | volume = XVIII | date= 1885 | page = 515 }}</ref> and Theodoli received his red biretta and was assigned the deaconry of Santa Maria della Scala on 10 June 1886.<ref>{{cite book | access-date = 2 February 2021 | title = Acta Sanctae Sedis | url =http://www.vatican.va/archive/ass/documents/ASS-18-1885-ocr.pdf | volume = XVIII | date= 1885 | pages=570–1 }}</ref> On 18 March 1889, he was named a member of the Council for the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
He died in Rome on 26 June 1892 after a brief illness.<ref name=tablet/> He was buried in his family's tomb in Campo Verano cemetery.
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==External links== *{{cite web | website = Catholic Hierarchy | url = http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btheo.html| title =Augusto Cardinal Theodoli }} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]] *{{cite web | website = The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church | url =http://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1886.htm#Theodoli | title = Theodoli, Augusto }} [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]
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