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Gaetano de Lai (July 30, 1853 – October 24, 1928) was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (now the Dicastery for Bishops) from 1908 until his death in 1928. He was named a cardinal by Pope Pius X in 1907.
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Gaetano de Lai (July 30, 1853 – October 24, 1928) was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (now the Dicastery for Bishops) from 1908 until his death in 1928. He was named a cardinal by Pope Pius X in 1907.
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Biography Gaetano de Lai was born on July 30, 1853, in Malo, then part of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. He was the son of Antonio and Maria (née Silvagni) de Lai; he had two sisters, Adelaide and Antonia Pietra. He studied at the seminary of Vicenza from 1867 to 1870, and then at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum Saint Apollinare from 1870 to 1876. On April 16, 1876, de Lai was ordained to the priesthood by the Cardinal Vicar, Costantino Patrizi Naro. He then served as a staff member of the Congregation of the Council (now the Dicastery for the Clergy) in the Roman Curia. In 1887, he was charged with the visitation of several dioceses; through this role, he met and formed a lasting friendship with Giuseppe Sarto, then Bishop of Mantua. Following Sarto's election as Pope Pius X in August 1903, de Lai was promoted to secretary of the Congregation of the Council on November 11, 1903. De Lai was created Cardinal-Deacon of San Nicola in Carcere by Pius X in the consistory of December 16, 1907. The following year, on October 20, 1908, he was named secretary of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation (now the Dicastery for Bishops)—a position…