Joseph Mary Tomasi
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His Eminence Saint Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, C.R. |
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| Cardinal-Priest of Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti | |
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| Native name | Giuseppe Maria Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| Appointed | 11 July 1712 |
| Installed | 11 July 1712 |
| Term ended | 1 January 1713 |
| Predecessor | Marcello d'Aste |
| Successor | Niccolò Caracciolo |
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| Ordination | 23 December 1673 by Giacomo de Angelis |
| Created Cardinal | 18 May 1712 by Pope Clement XI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Giuseppe Maria Tomasi |
| Born |
12 September 1649 Licata, Kingdom of Sicily, Crown of Aragon |
| Died | 1 January 1713 (aged 63) Rome, Lazio, Papal States |
| Buried | Basilica of Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome, Papal States |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Giulio Tomasi di Lampedusa & Rosalia Traina |
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| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | 29 September 1803 by Pope Pius VII |
| Canonized | 12 October 1986 by Pope John Paul II |
| Attributes | Cardinal's attire |
| Patronage | Catholic liturgy |
| Shrines | Basilica of Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome, Italy |
Saint Joseph Mary Tomasi, C.R. (Italian: Giuseppe Maria Tomasi di Lampedusa)(1649–1713), was an Italian Theatine Catholic priest, scholar, reformer and cardinal. His scholarship was a significant source of the reforms in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church during the 20th century. He was beatified by Pope Pius VII in 1803, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1986.
Tomasi was born at Licata, in the Kingdom of Sicily, part of the Crown of Aragon, to Giulio Tomasi, the first Prince of Lampedusa and his wife, Rosalia Traina. His life was oriented toward God from his first years. Formed and educated in the family home, where they did not lack riches or moral training, he gave proofs of a spirit very open to study and to piety. His parents cared greatly for this and for his own Christian formation and his instruction in the classical and modern languages, above all in the Spanish language, because he was destined by the family for the royal court of Madrid, as he was bound to inherit from his own father, as his title of nobility, that of Grandee of Spain.
But Tomasi's own spirit aspired, even from youth, to be small in the Kingdom of God, and to serve not the kings of the earth but the King of heaven. He cultivated his pious desire in his heart until he obtained the consent of his father to follow his vocation to the religious life.
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