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Saint Agostino and of the Oratorio dclla Misericordia
are worthy of mention. Among the civic buildings
are notable the Tarugi palace, like the Mercato a
work of Pignola; the C'ontucci palace designed by San-
gallo, and the fourteenth-century Palazzo Municipalc,
which contains a small gallery of Sienese and of Um-
brian art. Tlie most famous men of Montopulciano
arc Cardinal Hcllarmiiie, Pope MarccUus II, Cervini,
Angelo Ambnigiui, better known as Poliziano (1454-
1494), and the humanist Bartolomeo of Montepul-
ciano. St. .\gnrs of Montepulciano died in 1137.
The city lK-li)ng(>(l originally to the Diocese of Arezzo, and had a ri)l!egiato church, whose archpriest became a mitred abbot in 1400; in 1480 it became a prwlatura nullius, and in 1561 was made the seat of a bishop. It.s first bishop was Spinello Benci (1562) ; among the others the follow- ing are well known: Talento de' Talenti (1640), a great sav- ant ; Antonio Cervini (1663),who did much for the cathedral and the episcopal palace; Pietro Francesi (1737) opposed the novelties of the Council of Florence in 1787; Pellegrino Maria Carletti (1802), author of several works and of eighteen letters on the National Coun- cil of Paris of 1810, at which he assisted. The diocese is im- mediately dependent
on the Holy See, and has 18 parishes, 15,879 inhabi- tants, two religious houses of men, and two of women.
Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'ltalia, XIII (Venice, 1857).
U. Benigni. Monterey and Los Angeles, Diocese of (Mon
Ifshed were retained, and thus it is that so many of the
towns, rivers, and mountains still bear the names of
various saints. The most noted among the early mis-
sionaries were the holy and energetic Fr. Junlpero
Serra, the founder of the missions; Fr. Francisco Par
16u, his biographer and the historian of the early mis-
sionary period; Fr. Fcrmin de Lasuen, the wi.se and
firm successor of Fr. Serra; Fr. Luis Jayme, the first
martyr; Fr. Ju.an Crespi, one of the discoverers of San
Francisco and Monterey Bays and author of a lengthy
description of the expedition; Fr. Buenaventura Sit-
jar, author of a dictionary of the Telame language
(New York, 1861); Fr. Geronimo Boscana, author of
"Chinigchinig", an account of the Indian character
and customs (New York, 1846) ; Fr. Felipe Arroyo de
la Cuesta, author of
a dictionary of 2884
words and expres-
sions in the Mutsun
language(Ncw York,
1862); Fr. Vincente
de Sarrid, first cotn-
isario-p>-efeclo and
eminent for learning
and piety; Fr. Mar-
iano Payeras, author
of an Indian cate-
chism; Fr. Narci.so
Duran; Fr. Magin
Catala; Fr. Francisco
Dumetz; Fr. Jos6
Senan; Fr. Est6van
Tapis; and Fr. Jos6
Maria Gonzalez
Rtibio, administrator
of the diocese after
Bishop Diego's
death. The first
bishop of both Cali-
fornias, Rt. Rev.
Francisco Garcia Diego y Moreno, O.F.M., was
consecrated 4 October, 1840, and died 30 April,
1S46, at Santa Barbara Mission, where his remains
were interred on the Epistle side of the altar. Dur-
ing his administration the first seminary for the edu-
_, ^ , ,_ _ cation of secular priests on the western coast was
TEREYENSis ET Angeloru.m), comprises that part of opened 4 May, 1844, at Mission Santa Inez; Fr. Jos6
Cathedral, Montepulciano
the State of California which lies south of 37° 5' N. lat
and covers an area of 80,000 square miles. It thus
embraces eighteen of the twenty-one Indian missions
which made California famous. Originally the whole
state with the penin.sula of LowerCalifomia formed the
Diocese of Both Califomias whose first bishop was the
Joaquin Jimeno, O.F.M., was the first rector. Very
Rev. Jos6 Maria Gonzalez Rubio, O.F.M., was ad-
ministrator from 1846 to 1851 when Bishop Alemany
arrived. Fr. Riibio was later proposed for a diocese
but declined the mitre. While in charge of the See of
Monterey, which included both Califomias, he en-
Rt. Rev. Francisco Garcia Diego y Moreno. On his joyed the privilege of administering the sacrament of
arrival in Upper California he established his residence
at Santa Barbara Mission. On 1 May, 1850, the pope
organized the Diocese of Monterey and named Rt.
Rev. Joseph Sadoc Alemany, O.P., its first bishop,
but Lower California was not withdrawn from his
jurisdiction until 21 Dec., 1851. In 1853 the penin-
sula was placed under the administration of the
Metropolitan of Mexico. When on 29 July, 1853,
the Archdioce.se of San Francisco was erected, the
boundaries of the Monterey Diocese were drawn as
they exist at present. Archbi.shop Alemany on 29
July, 1853, was promoted to the See of San Francisco,
and on the .same dale Rt. Rev. Thaddeus Aniat,
CM., was appointed Bishop of Monterey. The new
bi.shop resided at Santa Barbara, however, until 9
July, 18.59, on which date the pope permitted him to
Confirmation. Unable to procure priests to replace
the old missionaries who were fast dying away, Fr.
Riibio in 1849 invited the Jesuit Fathers to come to
California and found a college in the territory. They
consented and opened their college in 1851. He was
born at Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1804, and entered the
Franciscan Order at Zap6pan in 1824. In 1833 he ar-
rived in California and was given charge of Mission
San Jos(5. In 1842, at the request of the bishop, he re-
moved to Santa Barbara, and lived there continuously
until his death 2 November, 1875. His remains were
buried in the vaults of the mission church. '
Rt. Rev. Thaddeus Amat, CM. (q. v.), after his consecration at Rome, 12 March, 1854, reached Cali- fornia in 1S55. In 1856 he called the Sisters of Charity (Vincentlans) to the diocese. They founded and still
remove his residence to Los Angeles, Ijut with instruc- conduct the orphan asylums at Los Angeles, Santa
tions to retain the old title. Barbara, and Santa Cruz, and an academy at Hollis-
Around the former missions and the four military
garrisons in the course of time immigrants from al-
most every part of the world took up their abode and
founded cities, but the names of the saints under
whose invocation the Indian missions had been estab-
ter. He also brought the Lazarists or Vincentian
Fathers to Los Angeles where they erected St. Vincent's
College. At his request the Sisters of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary came from Spain to California, 30
August, 1871, and opened schools for girls at Los
