Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet
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His Eminence Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet, O.S.B. (1846–1929) was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar.
He was Prior of Downside Abbey, 1878-1885. He was a member of the Pontifical Commission to study the validity of the Anglican ordinations (1896) leading to Apostolicae Curae, to which his historical contribution was major. He was President of the Pontifical Commission for Revision of the Vulgate, 1907. He also authored the major history of the Venerable English College at Rome.
He was created Cardinal in 1914. He was also Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives, and Librarian of the Vatican Library.
[edit] References
- Shane Leslie, (1953) Cardinal Gasquet : a memoir
- David Knowles (1957) Cardinal Gasquet as an historian (Creighton lecture in history, 1956)
