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Giuseppe Pecci

Italian cardinal

Died when: 82 years 57 days (985 months)
Star Sign: Sagittarius

 

Giuseppe Pecci

Giuseppe Pecci S.J. (13 December 1807 – 8 February 1890) was a Jesuit Thomist theologian whose younger brother, Vincenzo, became Pope Leo XIII and appointed him a cardinal.

The Neo-Thomist revival, which Leo XIII and his brother Giuseppe, Cardinal Pecci originated in 1879, remained the leading papal philosophy until Vatican II.


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