Letter signed by: > Lodovico ALTIERI (1805-1867) 🇮🇹 nuncio in Vienna 🇦🇹. Cardinal 🔴 in pectore 1840, published in 1845. > SAINT Giovanni Antonio FARINA (1803-1888) 🇮🇹 Bishop of Treviso & Vicenza. Ordained St. Pope Pius X. to the priesthood. Città di Treviso Città di Vicenza

Paolo Cazar COSTA (*1967) 🇧🇷 Priest in 1992 ⚫️. Auxilliary Bishop of Rio de Janeiro (2011-2016), Bishop of Saõ Carlos (2016-2020), Archbishop of Brasilia (since 2020) 🟣. Cardinal in 2022 🔴.

Virgílio DO CARMO DA SILVA (*1967) 🇹🇱 Priest in 1998 ⚫️. Bishop of Díli, Timor Este in 2016, Archbishop when the diocese was elevated in 2019 🟣. Cardinal in 2022 🔴.

William GOH (*1957) 🇸🇬 Priest in 1985 ⚫️. Archbishop of Singapore 2013 🟣. Cardinal in 2022 🔴. Goh is the 4th Archbishop of Singapore and the 1st cardinal of his country. Catholic Church SG Singapore Government

Back from the consistory 2023. Photo with signatures of 18 of the 20 new cardinals present in Rome.

Was able to add signatures of cardinals Clemente, Bo and Blazquez to my 2015 consistory photo during my visit of the 2023 consistory.

Photo of the 2017 consistory signed by cardinals Rosa Chavez, Arborelius and Zerbo.

Photo of the 2020 consistory signed by 8 of the 13 cardinals. Lojudice, Gregory, Advincula, Arizmendi and Sim (+) are missing.

Signatures of 6 bishops from Chad 🇹🇩 collected during their ad limina visit in Rome last week.

Signatures of 14 cardinals collected during their creation at the 2022 consistory.

His eminence ⁦Cardinal Dolan⁩ generously signed my photo (upper left) and is now the 42nd cardinal signature on this item.

Mariano PIERBENEDETTI (1538-1611) 🇮🇹 Relative of Paul III. Bishop of Martirano 1577 🟣. Cardinal in 1589 🔴. Participated in six conclaves. His titular church was S. Maria in Trastevere. Cardinal Bishop in 1608. DM me, if you are interested in a letter of this cardinal.

Decreto del Dicastero delle Cause dei Santi: l’offerta della vita del Servo di Dio Ludovico Altieri, Vescovo di Albano, Cardinale di Santa Romana Chiesa, nato il 17 luglio 1805 a Roma (Italia) e morto l’11 agosto 1867 ad Albano Laziale (Italia). #Vaticano #vatican

Pope Leo XIV. granted Lodovico Altieri today the title „Venerable Servant of God“, the next step toward Sainthood.