Angelico Policarpo

Basic information

Patronymic
Giulio Policarpo
Other names
Placido Policarpo
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Pedona, Republic of Lucca
Date of birth
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
Marital status
Not applicable
Last occupation / Qualification
friar minor of the conventual branch
Previous occupations
Religious status
Cleric
Religious order
Franciscans
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
30 January 1642
End date
19 May 1642
Courts involved
Congregation of the Holy Office
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Notes

Start date refers to the first mention of Angelico Policarpo in ADDF registers

End date refers to the execution

Sentence

Court
Congregation of the Holy Office
Local judge
Sentence date
30 January 1642
Sentence place
Rome, Papal States, Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
Crime category
Sacrilege & blasphemy
List of crimes

Celebratione missarum et audientiam confessionum sacramentalium non exendus sacerdos.

Celebration of Masses and hearing of sacramental confessions without being a priest.

 

Reason for conviction
Fake priest
Accessory penalties
Degradation from all ecclesiastical orders.

Execution

Execution date
19 May 1642
Authority
Governor of Rome
Execution place
Rome, Papal States, Campo de' Fiori
Execution type
Hanged and Burned
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
Yes
Notes for execution

Sacraments imparted: confession and communion

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents
Decrees and acdf sources

Vatican City, ADDF, S.O., Decreta, reg. 100 (1642), ff. 23r; 59r; 67r.

Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 9, v. 19, ff. 261v-263v.

Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies
Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons
Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles
Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 9, v. 19, ff. 261v-263v.

Expense registers and economic documents

Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 9, v. 19, f. 263v.

Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other