Paolo Antonio Galles
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Gerace, Kingdom of Naples
- Date of birth
- 1682
- Attributed date of birth
- Yes
- Age at the time of execution
- 26
- Marital status
- Unknown
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1708 before April 28th
- End date
- 28 April 1708
- Courts involved
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 28 April 1708
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, San Pietro
- Crime category
- Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
He stole a pyx containing consecrated hosts, the vessels with the holy oils, and the jewels of the Madonna from Santa Maria in Trastevere.
- Reason for conviction
- Abuser of hosts
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 29 April 1708
- Authority
- Governor of Rome
- Execution place
- Rome, Papal States, Fontana Secca di Trastevere
- Execution type
- Hanged and quartered
- In effigy
- No
- After death
- No
- Presence of doctors / surgeons
- Unknown
- Name of the doctors / surgeons
- Presence of comforters
- Unknown
- Name of the comforters
- 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
- Medical treatises
- Polemical histories and martyrologies
- Theological and legal texts
- Collections of sermons
- Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits Italien, ms. 169, cc. 249-281, Relazione della morte di Paolo Antonio Galles calabrese, reo di furto d’ostie sacre, commesso nel 1708 in S. Maria Trastevere.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10036804g/f276.item.zoom
- Chronicles
- Travel diaries
- Notarial acts and wills
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other