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Filippo Caterini

He was born in Onano, Viterbo on 10 January 1881 by Count Matteo, nephew of Cardinal Caterni and close relative of Eugenio Pacelli (pope Pius XII), and by Clementina Felici.

in 1908, after an accurate preparation of the Dominican apostolic life, Fr. Caterini was sent to S. Maria Novello of Florence and immediately the esteem of the confreres and of the faithful was reconciled for the beautiful gifts that adorned it: nobility as a portrait, attachment to duty, exquisite goodness of mind, exceptional maturity of judgment….then on 6 February 1910, twenty-nine was elected Prior of that illustrious convent. I accept only because of the pressures of Fr Provincial: the superior inspired him - and would have inspired him also in sequence - profound repugnance: and he was happy at the end of the three years of returning modestly among the subjects.

By now, however, the good work done in S. Maria Novella had highlighted it in the context of the Roman Province, and in November 1914 the confreres of S. Maria Minerva of Rome entrusted him with the direction of their community.

Prior to his re-election in 1917, a rare case, he soon had to renounce his office because he was called to succeed the late Fr Enrico Desqueyrous in the delicate and important office of Attorney General at the Roman curia.

He would have remained there for twenty-eight years, highly esteemed by the Holy See, by the General Masters, by the confreres and by the countless ecclesiastical and lay personalities he approached in this long span of time.

The most beautiful eulogy of the activity carried out by P. Caterini and that of pious XII. On 17 January 1943, on the 25th anniversary of his appointment as General Prosecutor, the great Pope sent him, through the Cardinal Secretary of State, the following telegram: His 25 pious intelligent generous effort as a PG Dominican Order offers an opportune occasion to rejoice Paternita Your Reverend whom he wishes affectionate expression of his august complacency, especially his Apostolic Blessing, that paternal reprieve precious services and pious comfort to a fruitful new activity. Cardinale Magione

In October 1946 a physical exhaustion that had for some time forced him to limit his work pushed P. Caterini to ask to be replaced.

he dreamed of retiring as a simple chaplain to a cloistered monastery but he had to renounce it, begged by the provincial Fr Silli to direct the community of the Penitentiaries of S. Maria Maggiore.

Finding the house in really pitiful conditions, immediately promoted the restoration with the help of a distinguished benefactor. but what was most important to him was the regular course of religious life. Aggravated his physical deterioration, in 1949 he was relieved of responsibility that had become too much for him and moved to the Monastery of the Perpetual Rosary on the Gianicolo

He stayed there just over two years; in September 1951, in fact, the Master named him Sub-Principal of the great commencement of the SS Domenico.

The following year he directed for several months, the Roman Province acting as Vicar of the REP P Master General) since 1947 he was part of the Provincial Council for the concession of the Sacred Congregation of Religious).

On the evening of Tuesday, October 25th in the guesthouse of the Monestery of St. Rosario of Marino, Filippo Caterini died. it was the end a illustrious career.