Nicolò Maria Antonelli was an Italian Cardinal

Cardinal (Catholicism)

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 in the Roman Catholic Church

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, a learned canonist

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, ecclesiastical

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 historian, and Orientalist

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Antonelli was born in Senigallia

Senigallia

Senigallia is a comune and port town on Italy's Adriatic coast, 25 km by rail north of Ancona, in the Marche region, province of Ancona....

. He wrote De Titulis Quos S. Evaristus Presbyteris Romanis Distribuit (Rome, 1725), in defense of the parochial character of the primitive Roman churches. He also edited (and defended) the commentary of St. Athanasius

Athanasius of Alexandria

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 on the Psalms, sermons of St. James of Nisibis

Jacob of Nisibis

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, and under the name of Emman. S.J. de Azovedo, Vetus Missale Romanum Monasticum Lateranense (1752).

Antonelli was the uncle of Cardinal Leonardo Antonelli

Leonardo Antonelli

Leonardo Antonelli was an Italian Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.A native of Senigallia, Antonelli was the nephew of Cardinal Nicolò Maria Antonelli...

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Source

• Nicolò Maria Antonelli at Catholic Encyclopedia