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- Charles Januarius Edward Acton was an English cardinal born at Naples, 6 March 1803; died at Naples, 23 June 1847. He was the second son of Sir John Francis Acton, Bart. The family, a cadet branch of the Actons of Aldenham Hall, near Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, had settled in Naples some time before his birth. His father was engaged in the Neapolitan trade when he succeeded to the family estate and title through the death of his cousin, Sir Richard Acton, Bart. The Cardinal's education was English, as he and his elder brother were sent to England on their father's death in 1811 to a school near London kept by the Abbé Auéqué. They were then sent to Westminster School, with the understanding that their religion was not to be interfered with. Yet, they not only were sent to this Protestant school, but they had a Protestant clergyman as tutor. In 1819 they went on to Magdalene College, Cambridge. After this strange schooling for a future cardinal, Charles went to Rome when he was twenty and entered the Academia Ecclesiastica, where ecclesiastics intending to be candidates for public offices receive a special training. An essay of his attracted the attention of the Secretary of State, della Somaglia, and Pope Leo XII made him a chamberlain and attaché to the Paris Nunciature, where he had the best opportunity to become acquainted with diplomacy. Pope Pius VIII recalled him and named him vice-legate, granting him choice of any of the four legations over which cardinals presided. He chose Bologna as affording most opportunity for improvement. He left there at the close of Pius VIII's brief pontificate, and went to England, in 1829, to marry his sister to Sir Richard Throckmorton. Pope Gregory XVI made him assistant judge in the Civil Court of Rome. In 1837 he was made Auditor to the Apostolic Chamber, the highest Roman dignity after the cardinalate. Probably this was the first time it was even offered to a foreigner. Acton declined it, but was commanded to retain it. He was proclaimed Cardinal-Priest, with the title of Santa Maria della Pace, in 1842; having been created nearly three years previously. His strength, never very great, began to decline, and a severe attack of ague made him seek rest and recuperation, first at Palermo and then at Naples, but without avail, for he died in the latter city. His sterling worth was little known through his modesty and humility. In his youth his musical talent and genial with supplied much innocent gaiety, but the pressure of serious responsibilities and the adoption of a spiritual life somewhat subdued its exercise. His judgment and legal ability were such that advocates of the first rank said that could they know his view of a case they could tell how it would be decided. When he communicated anything in writing, Pope Gregory used to say he never had occasion to read it more than once. He was selected as interpreter in the interview which the Pope had with the Czar of Russia. The Cardinal never said anything about this except that when he had interpreted the Pope's first sentence the Czar said: "It will be agreeable to me, if your Eminence will act as my interpreter, also. " After the conference Cardinal Acton, by request of the Pope, wrote out a minute account of it; but he never permitted it to be seen. The King of Naples urged him earnestly to become Archbishop of Naples, but he inexorably refused. His charities were unbounded. He once wrote from Naples that he actually tasted the distress which he sought to solace. He may be said to have died in the 'wealth' of willing poverty.
- Charles Januarius Acton var en av den katolske kirkes kardinaler. Han var sønn av Sir John Francis Acton, som med sin familie hadde flyttet fra England til Napoli kort før Charles' fødsel og der blitt statsminister og øverstkommanderende for Kongedømmet Napoli. Etter studier i England og Roma ble han prest, og ble engasjert i Den romerske kurie og det pavelige diplomati. Han var også guvernør av Bologna en kort periode. Han medvirket til at England ble inndelt i åtte apostolske vikariater i 1840. Han ble prefekt for Kongregasjonen for avlater og relikvier 1846. Han ble kreert in pectore til kardinal i desember 1839 av pave Gregor XVI, publisert i januar 1842. Han deltok ved konklavet 1846 som valgte pave Pius IX. Kongen av Napoli ville ha ham til å godta en utnevnele til erkebiskop av Napoli, men han avslo.
- Charles Januarius Edward Acton, angielski duchowny katolicki, wysoki urzędnik Kurii Rzymskiej, kardynał. Był synem sir Johna Francisa Actona, szefa rządu i dowódcy wojsk Neapolu. Kształcił się w Anglii (przez pewien czas w szkole anglikańskiej w Westminster), następnie studiował w Papieskiej Akademii Duchowieństwa Szlacheckiego w Rzymie. Po przyjęciu święceń kapłańskich pracował w dyplomacji Watykanu, m. in. jako sekretarz nuncjatury we Francji. Otrzymał tytuł prałata domowego papieża Leona XII. Był również gubernatorem Bolonii, sekretarzem Kongregacji Dyscypliny Zakonnej, a od lutego 1837 audytorem generalnym Komnaty Apostolskiej. Papież Grzegorz XVI wyniósł go do godności kardynalskiej, początkowo zachowując nominację in pectore (luty 1839); po ogłoszeniu nominacji Acton otrzymał tytuł prezbitera S. Maria della Pace. W 1840 przyczynił się do podziału Anglii na osiem wikariatów apostolskich. W 1845 służył jako tłumacz w czasie rozmowy Grzegorza XVI z carem Mikołajem I. Brał udział w konklawe po śmierci Grzegorza XVI w 1846; nowy papież Pius IX mianował go prefektem watykańskiej Kongregacji Odpustów i Relikwii oraz nadał inny kardynalski tytuł prezbiterski - S. Marco (grudzień 1846). Wkrótce jednak kardynał złożył urzędy w Kurii i udał się do Palermo, a następnie do Neapolu dla poratowania zdrowia. Nie przyjął propozycji objęcia arcybiskupstwa Neapolu. Zmarł w czerwcu 1847 w Neapolu, został pochowany w tamtejszej katedrze metropolitalnej. Jego bratankiem był znany angielski historyk John Acton. Źródła: sylwetka w słowniku biograficznym kardynałów Salvadora Mirandy
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- Charles Januarius Edward Acton was an English cardinal born at Naples, 6 March 1803; died at Naples, 23 June 1847. He was the second son of Sir John Francis Acton, Bart. The family, a cadet branch of the Actons of Aldenham Hall, near Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, had settled in Naples some time before his birth. His father was engaged in the Neapolitan trade when he succeeded to the family estate and title through the death of his cousin, Sir Richard Acton, Bart.
- Charles Januarius Acton var en av den katolske kirkes kardinaler. Han var sønn av Sir John Francis Acton, som med sin familie hadde flyttet fra England til Napoli kort før Charles' fødsel og der blitt statsminister og øverstkommanderende for Kongedømmet Napoli. Etter studier i England og Roma ble han prest, og ble engasjert i Den romerske kurie og det pavelige diplomati. Han var også guvernør av Bologna en kort periode.
- Charles Januarius Edward Acton, angielski duchowny katolicki, wysoki urzędnik Kurii Rzymskiej, kardynał. Był synem sir Johna Francisa Actona, szefa rządu i dowódcy wojsk Neapolu. Kształcił się w Anglii (przez pewien czas w szkole anglikańskiej w Westminster), następnie studiował w Papieskiej Akademii Duchowieństwa Szlacheckiego w Rzymie. Po przyjęciu święceń kapłańskich pracował w dyplomacji Watykanu, m. in. jako sekretarz nuncjatury we Francji.
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