Giovan Luigi Pascale
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Gian Luigi Pascali and Giovanni Luigi Pasquali
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Cuneo, Duchy of Savoy
- Date of birth
- 1520-1525
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 40
- Marital status
- Married
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Church Minister and Preacher
- Previous occupations
Minister and preacher of the Italian Church of Geneva
Soldier- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 02 May 1559
- End date
- 15 September 1560
- Courts involved
- Archbishop Court of Naples, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- Yes
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 15 September 1560
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva
- Crime category
- Formal heresy
- List of crimes
Lutheran (Waldesian Church)
- Reason for conviction
- Pertinacious / impenitent
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 16 September 1560
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Ponte Sant'Angelo square
- Execution type
- burned alive
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Yes
- Name of the comforters
- Arciconfraternita di San Giovanni Decollato
- Presence of rebels / riots
- No
- Sacraments imparted
- No
- Notes for execution
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 2, v. 4, Libro del proveditore, c. 147r.
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
Jean Crespin, Actes des martyres deduits en sept livres, depuis le temps de Vviclef et de Hus, iusques à present, Genève 1564, pp. 970-987; Scipione Lentolo, Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni fatte ai tempi nostri in Provenza, Calabria e Piemonte (1559-1566), a cura di T. Gay, Torre Pellice 1906, pp. 250-314; Pierre Gilles, Histoire ecclesiastique des eglises reformees, Genève 1644, pp. 21, 177-181.
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, cod. Urbinate 1039, ff. 205v. (in: Paschini, Episodi, pp. 292-293)
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Marble epigraph, Metodist Church of Ponte Sant’Angelo, Rome, 2011.
“In memoria di / GIOVAN LUIGI PASCALE / (1525-1560) / Pastore Valdese / Giustiziato in questo luogo dall’Inquisizione / a 450 anni dalla morte / le chiese valdesi e metodiste di Roma posero / ‘Quand’anche camminassi nella valle dell’ombra e / della morte io non temerei male alcun / perché tu sei con me’ / Salmo 23,4”
- Iconography
- Other