Mistrangelo, Sch. P. , Alfonso Maria  

(1852-1930)

Birth
April 26, 1852, Savona, Italy. 

Education
Seminary of Savona, Savona. Joined the Congregation of the Clerics Poor Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools, province of Liguria, October 23, 1870; simple profession, 1871; solemn profession, 1874. Piarist houses of study, 1870-1877. 

Priesthood
Ordained, March 17, 1877, Aquis. Faculty member in Piarist schhools of Finalborgo, Carcare and Ovada; rector of Piarist house in Ovada.

Episcopate
Elected bishop of Pontremoli, January 16, 1893. Consecrated, January 22, 1893, Rome, by Cardinal Lucido Maria Parocchi, bishop of Albano, vicar general of His Holiness for the City of Rome. Promoted to metropolitan see of Florence, June 19, 1899. Superior general of his congregation, 1900-1904. 

Cardinalate 
Created cardinal priest, December 6, 1915; received red hat ana title of S. Maria degli Angeli, December 9, 1915. Participated in conclave of 1922. 

Death
November 7, 1930, Florence. Buried, cemetery of Soffiano, Florence.

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