He was created and proclaimed Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria del Popolo by Pope Pius in the consistory of 27 September 1861.[4] He was commissioned with the erection and organisation of the Latin American Seminary, Rome. He was appointed as Prefect of the economy of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide and of the Reverend Chamber of Despoilments on 29 August 1863. He participated in the First Vatican Council from 1869-1870. He opted for the order of bishops and the suburbicarian see of Palestrina on 8 October 1870. He participated in the conclave of 1878 that elected Pope Leo XIII. He opted for the suburbicarian see of Porto e Santa Rufina on 15 July 1878 and again changed his see to the suburbicarian see of Ostia and Velletri, on becoming Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on 24 March 1884. He served as Prefect of the Congregation of Ceremonies from 1884 until his death.[1]
Death and funeral
He died of pneumonitis on 25 February 1889 at 4:15 p.m. in the palace of the Apostolic Datary, Rome. The body was transferred to the basilica of Ss. XII Apostoli on 27 February at 11 a.m. The funeral took place in the same basilica on 4 March 1889 at 10 a.m.; the Mass, with twenty-three cardinals in attendance, was celebrated by Félix-Marie de Nekere, titular archbishop of Melitene; the final absolution was imparted by Cardinal Raffaele Monaco La Valletta, Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. The body was taken first to Campo Verano cemetery, Rome, and later to Montalto and buried in his family's tomb.
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