Francis augustus macnutt biography
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Francis Augustus MacNutt
American diplomat and Catholic writer
Papal MarquisFrancis Augustus MacNutt (February 15, 1863 – December 30, 1927) was an Indiana-born Catholic writer, and American diplomat, who later became a high ranking Vatican official.
Biography
[edit]Francis Augustus MacNutt was also for some time an American diplomat and a prolific writer of plays and histories. MacNutt married Margaret Ogden, grand-daughter of Clement Clarke Moore who wrote the famous Christmas poem The Night Before Christmas, and they established themselves in Rome at the Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona. Their home was the center of social life for the Roman nobility and senior Catholic Church officials. Today, it is the Embassy of Brazil.
MacNutt was highly influential in Vatican circles and was a close friend to three popes, Leo XIII, Pius X, and Benedict XV, and also to Cardinals Rafael Merry del Val and Mariano Rampolla, both Cardinal Secretaries of State. His influence was al
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Macnutt, Francis Augustus
Papal courtier, author; b. Richmond, Ind., February 15, 1863; d. Bressanone, Italy, December 30, 1927. He was the son of Joseph and Laetitia Jane (Scott) MacNutt, well-to-do Episcopalians. MacNutt attended Philips Academy, Exeter, N.H. (1878–80), and Harvard University Law School (1880–81), spending also many months in foreign travel and the study of languages. He was received into the Catholic Church in Rome on March 22, 1883, and first began ecclesiastical training as an associate of the "Priests of Expiation," an abortive religious society projected by Rev. Kenelm Vaughan of England. While a student (1887–89) of the Pontifical Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics, Rome, he concluded that he was not called to the priesthood and secured appointments as first secretary of the U.S. legations at Constantinople (1890–92) and Madrid (1892–93). In 1898 he married Margaret van Cortlandt Ogden of New York and took up residence in Rom
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Francis Augustus McNutt
Francis Augustus MacNutt
| Grand Parents | John Murray Upham McNutt + Jane C Hawkins | Andrew Findley Scott + Martha McGlathery | Thomas Ludlow Ogden + Martha Hammond | Clement Clarke Moore + Catherine Elizabeth Taylor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Death | 30 DEC 1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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