Casali del Drago, Giovanni Baptista

CASALI DEL DRAGO, cɑ̄-sɑ̄´lî del drɑ̄´gō, GIOVANNI, jō-vɑ̄n´nî, BAPTISTA, bɑ̄p-tis´tɑ̄: Cardinal; b. at Rome Jan. 30, 1838. He was educated at the Roman Seminary, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1860. Six years later he was appointed chamberlain by Pope Pius IX., and was then canon successively of the Lateran (1867–71) and of St. Peter's (1871–78). In 1878 he became domestic prelate, and in 1895 Leo XIII. created him titular Latin patriarch of Constantinople. He received the cardinal's hat in 1899, being created cardinal priest with the title of Santa Maria della Victoria.