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1863 - RARE VATICAN CITY TELEGRAM FROM CARDINAL BORROMEO
Item Ref: BSL - Vatican Telegram
CARDINAL AND ARCHBISHOP EDOARDO BORROMEO
(1822-1881)
to
Count Turrini
Pontifical Telegram with Papal Insignia from Cardinal Borromeo (then
Prefect of the Pontifical House), in Rome, to Count Turrini, in
Civitavecchia, April 10, 1863. Dispatched at 10:30 AM and received
the same day at 11 AM. The Telegraph System was a part of the
Postal System under Governmental Administration. Rare.
Historical Note
Born on August 3,
1822 in Milan, Borromeo was baptized on that same day in the parish of
S. Alessandro and received the names Edoardo Lodovico Carlo Renato
Giovanni Benedeto; his uncle, Count Renato Borromeo, was his godfather.
He was the great-grand-nephew of Cardinal Vitaliano Borromeo (1766) and
the namesake of Saint Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584).
Along with his brother Emmanuele he served as a page during the stay of
the emperor of Austria in Milan. He was the Privy chamberlain
participant of His Holiness 1845 to 1850. He was ordained in Rome on
December 1846 by Pope Pius IX and remained at the side of the pope
during the revolution of 1848, accompanying him to Gaeta. During the
cholera epidemic in Rome, 1855-1856, he zealously assisted the victims,
especially their orphan children and became the Prefect of the
Pontifical House in 1856. Borromeo was elevated to cardinal and received
his red hat in and the deaconry of Ss. Vito e Modesto in 1868. He
participated in the First Vatican Council, 1869-1870. He was elected
titular archbishop of Adana in 1878. Cardinal Borromeo died in Rome in
1881 and is buried in the new chapel of the Vatican chapter in Campo
Verano cemetery.
Document Specifications:
Measuring 8¾" wide and 12" tall
(225mm x 310mm). This
is the
receipt form for the Telegrafi Pontiifici or Papal Telegraph as it was
recorded in the Civitavecchia Telegraph Station. A rare example of
a Pontifical Telegram from 1863 sent by a Cardinal to a Count. The
cardinal is expressing his condolences to the Count for his "painful
loss" and urges him to find strength and courage within and to follow up
the next day by telegraphing the sisters.
Offered
by Berryhill & Sturgeon, Ltd. .................................
$ SOLD