Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Gennaro (1851-1948) 

Birth: April 10, 1851, Naples, Italy, of a noble family.

Education 
Collegio Mondragone, Naples; private tutoring, Naples (doctorate in theology). 

Priesthood 
Ordained, June 5 (or 7), 1879, Naples. 

Secretary to cardinal archbishop of Naples, 1879-1886. Domestic prelate, April 4, 1884. 

Editor of La Libertá Cattolica, Naples, 18861891. 

Canon and archdiocesan official of Naples, 1891-1892. 

Staff member of S.C. for Extroordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1892. 

Attaché in nunciature in France, 1893-1896. 

Member of papal mission to coronotion of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, 1896; 

Member of papal mission to 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria of England, 1897. 

Counselor of nunciature in France, 1897-1899; chargé d'affaires, 1899.

Episcopate 
Elected titular archbishop of Edessa di Osrhoëne and appointed nuncio in Belgium, November 10, 1899. 

Consecrated, November 26, 1899, Rome, by Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro, Secretary of State. 

Special papal envoy to funeral of Queen Victoria of England, 1901. Nuncio in Austria-Hungary, January 4, 1904. 

Resigned nunciature, January 6, 1911. 

Special papal envoy to coronation of King Georye V of England, June 1911.

Cardinalate 
Created cardinal priest, November 27, 1911; 

received red hat and title of S. Maria degli Angeli, November 30, 1911. 

Papal legate to International Eucharistic Congress of Lourdes, France, July 22, 1914. 

Participated in conclave of 1914. 

Opted for order of cardinal bishops and suburbicarian see of Albano, December 6, 1915. 

Papal legate to celebration in honor of Sainte-Jeanne d'Arc, Orleans, France, May 8, 1921. 

Participated in conclave of 1922. 

Papal legate to National Eucharistic Congress, Palermo, Italy, August 6, 1924. 

Vice-dean of Sacred College of Cardinals, February 25, 1929; 

Dean, and bishop of suburbicarian see of Ostia, July 9, 1930. 

Prefect of S.C. Ceremonial, July 14, 1930. 

Papal legate to opening of Holy Door at San Paolo fuori le mura, Rome, April 1, 1933. 

Participated in conclave of 1939. 

Death
February 16, 1948, Vatican City. Buried, Campo Verano cemetery, Rome. Last surviving cardinal of St. Pius X.

(Salvador Miranda) http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/cardinals.htm