Giuseppe Morelli
Basic information
- Patronymic
- Other names
- Genre
- Male
- Place of origin
- Montemilone (Pollenza), Papal States
- Date of birth
- 1736
- Attributed date of birth
- No
- Age at the time of execution
- 25
- Marital status
- Unmarried
- Last occupation / Qualification
- Hermit
- Previous occupations
- Religious status
- Layperson
- Religious order
- Accusations
Proceedings
- Start date
- 1756
- End date
- 30 July 1761
- Courts involved
- Inquisition of Spoleto, Congregation of the Holy Office
- Extradition
- No
- Other judges involved
- Notes
Sentence
- Court
- Congregation of the Holy Office
- Local judge
- Sentence date
- 30 July 1761
- Sentence place
- Rome, Papal States, Palazzo Apostolico del Quirinale
- Crime category
- Sacrilege & blasphemy
- List of crimes
Celebration of Masses without beeing ordained priest.
- Reason for conviction
- Fake priest
- Accessory penalties
Execution
- Execution date
- 22 August 1761
- 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
- No
- 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
The body was burned in the nearby church of Santa Maria in Grotta Pinta.
Sources
- Letters
- Local inquisitorial trials and documents
- Decrees and acdf sources
Vatican City, ADDF, S.O., Decreta, reg. 219 (1761), f. 156r.
Vatican City, ADDF, S.O., St. St., A1f, 26 (Bandi 06).
- Legal opinions consultations
- Registers of the condemned
- Other magistracies
- Petitions
- Confraternities
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 10, v. 21, Libro del provveditore, cc. 278-283.
Rome, Archivio di Stato, Confraternita di S. Giovanni Decollato, b. 18, f. 100, Fascicoli Personali, Morelli Giuseppe, cc. 3.
- 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
- Expense registers and economic documents
- Memorial documents epitaphs etc
- Iconography
- Other
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, Distinta relazione della consegna fatta nella gran sala del S. Offizio di Roma al Tribunale del Governo dal Supremo Tribunale della S.U. Inquisizione di Giuseppe Morelli da Monte Milone, diocesi di Macerata, celebrante non promosso recidivo, e della sentenza di morte contro il medesimo eseguita, Roma, nella stamperia de’ Bernabò e Lazzarini, 1761.