{{Short description|Italian cardinal}} {{For|the football player|Tommaso Martinelli (footballer)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | image = Troja T. (1884), Ritratto del cardinale Tommaso Maria Martinelli.jpg | caption = Painting - Tito Troja (1884) | honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] | name = Tommaso Maria Martinelli | honorific_suffix = [[Order of Saint Augustine|O.E.S.A.]] | title = [[Camerlengo of the sacred college of cardinals|Camerlengo Emeritus of the College of Cardinals]] | appointed = 15 March 1883 | term_end = 24 March 1884 | predecessor = [[Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano]] | successor = [[Mieczysław Halka-Ledóchowski]] | other_post = [[Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina]] (1884–1888) | ordination = 22 December 1849 | ordained_by = [[Costantino Patrizi Naro]] | consecration = 30 March 1884 | consecrated_by = [[Raffaele Monaco La Valletta]] | cardinal = 22 December 1873 | created_cardinal_by = [[Pope Pius IX]] | rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] (1874–1875)<br>[[Cardinal-Priest]] (1875–1884)<br>[[Cardinal-Bishop]] (1884–1888) | birth_name = Tommaso Maria Martinelli | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1827|02|04}} | birth_place = Sant'Anna, [[Lucca]], [[Duchy of Lucca]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1888|03|30|1827|02|04}} | death_place = [[Rome]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] | buried = [[Campo Verano]] | parents = Cosma Martinelli<br>Maddalena Partini | previous_post = {{unbulleted list|[[San Giorgio in Velabro|Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio in Velabro]] (1874–1875)|[[Congregation of Studies|Pro-Prefect of the Congregation of Studies]] (1874–1877)|[[Santa Prisca, Rome|Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca]] (1875–1884)|[[Congregation for Rites|Prefect of the Congregation for Rites]] (1877–1878)|[[Prefect of the Congregation of the Index]] (1878–1883)}} }}
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'''Tommaso Maria Martinelli''' (4 February 1827{{Snd}} 30 March 1888)<ref>[https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmartm.html Catholic Hierarchy website]</ref> was a [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] who served as [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints|Prefect of the Congregation of Rites]].
Tommaso Martinelli was born in the parish of Sant'Anna, [[Lucca]] as the son of Cosma Martinelli and Maddalena Pardini. He was the brother of Cardinal [[Sebastiano Martinelli]].
== Education == He entered the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine ([[Augustinians]])<ref>[https://cardinals.fiu.edu/relig-xix.htm Florida International University Libraries website, list of cardinals]</ref> in Lucca in 1842 and was professed on 19 April 1844.
== Priesthood == He was ordained on 22 December 1849 in [[Rome]]. He was lecturer in the monastery and college of St Augustine, Rome and served as regent of studies of the school in September 1855. He became assistant [[professor]] of [[Scripture]] at [[La Sapienza University]] in [[Rome]] in 1856. He was full professor from 1862 to 1870. He visited [[Belgium]], the [[Netherlands]], [[Ireland]], [[Bavaria]] and [[Bohemia]] with the superior general of the order in 1862. He was consultor of the [[Congregation of the Index]] in 1864. He was a theologian at the [[First Vatican Council]] from 1869 to 1870.
== Cardinalate == He was created Cardinal-Deacon of ''[[S. Giorgio in Velabro]]'' by [[Pope Pius IX]] in the consistory of 22 December 1873. He was appointed as Prefect of the [[Congregation for Catholic Education|Congregation of Studies]] on 12 March 1874. He opted for the order of cardinal priests and the title of ''[[Santa Prisca]]''<ref>[http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/SV1878.html California State University Northridge website]</ref> on 17 September 1875. He was appointed as [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints|Prefect of the Congregation of Rites]] on 18 October 1877. He participated in the [[Papal conclave, 1878|conclave of 1878]] that elected [[Pope Leo XIII]]. He remained at the Congregation for Rites until he was appointed as Prefect of the [[Congregation of the Index]] on 15 July 1878. He served as [[Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals|Camerlengo]] of the Sacred [[College of Cardinals]] from 15 March 1883 until 24 March 1884.
== Episcopate == He opted for the order of cardinal bishops, taking the [[suburbicarian see]] of Sabina on 24 March 1884.
== Death == He died in 1888, at 6:45 a.m. in [[Rome]], after a brief illness;<ref>[https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1873.htm#Martinelli Florida International University Libraries website, Tommaso Martinelli page]</ref> his body was exposed in the church of S. Agostino, Rome, where the funeral took place on 4 April at 10 a.m. The final absolution was imparted by Cardinal [[Carlo Sacconi]], [[Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals]]; eighteen cardinals were also in attendance; the remains were buried in the chapel of his order in the [[Campo Verano]] cemetery.
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-rel|ca}} {{succession box | before=[[Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano]] | title=[[Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals]]| after=[[Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski]] | years=15 March 1883–24 March 1884}} {{succession box | before=[[Luigi Bilio]] | title=[[Bishop of Sabina|Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina]]| after=[[Luigi Serafini (bishop)|Luigi Serafini]] | years=24 March 1884–30 March 1888}} {{s-end}}
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