Rafael Merry del Val
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Servant of God Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val |
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| Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office | |
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| Appointed | 14 October 1914 |
| Term ended | 26 February 1930 |
| Predecessor | Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani |
| Successor | Raffaele Monaco La Valletta |
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| Ordination | 30 December 1888 |
| Consecration | 6 May 1900 by Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro |
| Created Cardinal | 9 November 1903 by Pope Pius X |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Birth name | Rafael María José Pedro Francisco Borja Domingo Gerardo de la Santíssima Trinidad Merry del Val y Zulueta |
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10 October 1865 London, England, U.K. |
| Died | 26 February 1930 (aged 64) Vatican City |
| Denomination | Catholic (Roman Rite) |
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| Motto | Da mihi animas caetera tolle ("Give me souls, take rest") |
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| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Servant of God |
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Styles of Rafael Merry del Val |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Rafael Merry del Val y de Zulueta (10 October 1865 – 26 February 1930), was a British-born Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal.
Before becoming a cardinal, he served as the secretary of the papal conclave of 1903 that elected Saint Pius X, who is said to have accepted his election through Merry del Val's encouragement. Pius X later appointed him as the Cardinal Secretary of State. Merry del Val's writings inspired the Litany of Humility.
A cause for his canonization was opened in 1953 at the behest of Pope Pius XII. He now has the title Servant of God.
He was born as Rafael María José Pedro Francisco Borja Domingo Gerardo de la Santíssima Trinidad Merry del Val y Zulueta at the Spanish Embassy in London, England,son of Rafael Carlos Merry del Val as the second of four sons. His mother was Sofia Josefa de Zulueta (died 1925), elder daughter of Pedro José de Zulueta, count of Torre Díaz, of the London bank of Zulueta & Co., and his wife, Sophia Ann Wilcox, who was of Scottish and Dutch ancestry. The Zuluetas were an old Basque family ennobled as counts de Torre Díaz in the nineteenth century. His father was Rafael Carlos Merry del Val (1831–1917), Marquess of Merry del Val, secretary to the Spanish legation in London, a monarchist supporter of Alfonso XII and nobleman. The del Vals were an Aragonese family originally from Zaragoza, claiming descent from a twelfth-century Breton crusader; the surname Merry came from a line of Irish merchants from County Waterford, Ireland, who settled in the late eighteenth century in Seville, Spain. His elder brother Alfonso, marquess of Merry del Val (b. 1864), was Spanish ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1913 and 1931.
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