cardinal Bernardino Giraud

Bernardino Giraud (born 14 July 1721 in Rome, died 5 May 1782) was a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Apostolic Nuncio to France from 1767 to 1773, and as Archbishop of Ferrara from 1773 until his resignation in 1777. He was elevated to Cardinal in pectore on 17 June 1771, and installed as Cardinal-Priest of SS. Trinità al Monte Pincio in 1773. He participated in the Papal conclave, 1774–1775.

Notes

Biography by Guido Gregorio Fagioli Vercellone, in Italian, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 56 (2001), Treccani

(1) His biography in Italian by Fagioli Vercellone, linked above, says that: Persistent rumors said that the cardinal was not dead, but had fled to France, where he enjoyed powerful protection, and that the corpse which had been buried with great ceremony in the family chapel in S. Maria in Vallicella was that of a dead man which had been taken from the nearby hospital of S. Spirito in Sassia, to whom a wax mask with the likeness of the cardinal had been set. A proof of the falseness of these rumors was the cardinal's will: besides the considerable legacy in favor of the family and household, he named his universal heirs the poor in the person of Pope Pius VI, who accepted the inheritance assigning it to the Conservatorio Pio for the erection of a school in S. Salvatore in Lauro. For others, however, that fact was considered a further ruse of Cardinal Giraud. But it is a fact that the pope remained on good terms with the cardinal's brothers, Alessio and Ferdinando, who in 1796, when the pontiff asked his subjects for military aid, they volunteered and from their own expense they provided thirty armed men on horseback.

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