NBorn in Sorbano del Vescovo (Lucca) on 1 January 1836.
Died in Rome on September 7, 1905.
After completing his studies in the seminary of San Michele di Lucca, he was admitted to the Order of Preachers in 1853 and made his solemn profession in 1857. He continued his studies in the Dominican colleges of Rome and Perugia, he taught theology in Viterbo and in the Minerva convent. On 25 June 1887 he was appointed Master of the Apostolic Palace. Created cardinal by Leo XIII in the consistory of 30 November 1896, he became a member of various Roman dicasteries, including the Congregation of Bishops and Regulars.
Cardinal Pierotti presided over the meeting of the Commission for the examination of new institutes which on July 25, 1901 discussed the first request for approval presented by Don Guanella for his congregations. The commission, while praising and encouraging the charitable activity of the institutes, made the notes of the bishop of Como, Monsignor *Teodoro Valfrè di Bonzo, its own, asking the Founder to provide for the effective separation of the two congregations, restrict the too vast scope of charity and dispersive, to review the constitutions, defined as "true chaos, without order and without structure", and to exercise greater caution in vocational selection.
Sources
- Hierarchia catholica medii et modernioris aevi, vol. VIII: 1846-1903, edited by Remigium Ritzler and Pirminum Sefrin, Padua, Editrice «Il Messaggero di S. Antonio», 1978, p. 39.
- «L'Osservatore Romano», 10 September 1905, p. 1.
- Charles Daniel - Paul-Marie Baumgarten - Antoine De Waal, Rome; le chef suprême l'organisation et l'administration centrale de l'Église, Paris, Plon, 1900, pp. 165-166.
Guanellian sources
-Bruno Capparoni The papal approval of the Guanellian congregations: difficulties and positive outcomes (1898-1935), no The Constitutions and Regulations of Don Luigi Guanella. Historical and thematic approaches, edited by Alejandro M. Dieguez, Rome, Nuove Frontiere, 1998, p. 123.
Photography
«The Italian Illustration», 1903, II, p. 50.
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