House of Carafa

The House of Carafa is a noble Neapolitan family of Italian nobles, clergy, and men of arts, known from the 12th century. Members included:

  • Cardinal Oliviero Carafa (1430 – 20 January 1511)
  • Giovanni Pietro Carafa (1476–1559), became Pope Paul IV from May 1555 until his death
  • Prince Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano, nephew of Pope Paul IV; under the next pope, Pius IV, he was placed on trial and beheaded in 1561 at Tor di Nona, two days after the execution of his brother, Cardinal Carlo Carafa on 6 March 1561
  • Cardinal Antonio Carafa (1538–1591), also nephew of Pope Paul IV
  • Cardinal Alfonso Carafa (1540 – 1565, aged 25), son of Antonio Carafa Marquis of Montebello, and grandnephew of Pope Paul IV
  • Fabrizio Carafa (died 1590), Duke of Andria; famously murdered by noted composer Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (1566–1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, for having an affair with Gesualdo's wife
  • Girolamo Caraffa (1564–1633), Marquis of Montenegro, a general in Spanish and Imperial service
  • Fabrizio

    Fabrizio is an Italian first name, from the latin word "Faber" meaning "smith" and may refer to:

  • Fabrizio Barbazza (born 1963), an Italian former Formula One driver
  • Fabrizio Barca (born 1954), Italian politician
  • Fabrizio Brienza (born 1969), an Italian model and actor
  • Fabrizio De André (1940–1999), an Italian singer-songwriter
  • Fabrizio Faniello (born 1981), a Maltese singer
  • Fabrizio Giovanardi (born 1966), an Italian racing driver
  • Fabrizio Moretti (born 1980), Brazilian-born drummer in American band the Strokes
  • Fabrizio Nieva (born 1964), an Argentine lightweight boxer
  • Fabrizio Ravanelli (born 1968), an Italian former football player
  • Fabrizio Ruffo (1744–1827), a Neapolitan cardinal and politician
  • Fabrizio Saccomanni (born 1942), Italian politician
  • Michel Fabrizio (born 1984), an Italian motorcycle racer
  • Fabrizio Raffa (born 1984), Italian hydrographic data processor
  • Fabrizio De Rossi, a character in the 1997 film Titanic
  • One of the male innamorati of the commedia
  • Fabrizio (bishop)

    Saint-Fabrizio or Fabriciano martyr, is revered as a saint by the Catholic Church. He was the first bishop of Porto, in Portugal. He is remembered with Saint Philibert and liturgical memorial on August 22. He died in the third century AD in Toldeo, Spain.

    Worship

    He is revered in the Archdiocese of Toledo (Spain), following the tradition upheld in the Mozarabic Missal and Breviary in the appendix to the same rite, Cardinal Francisco Jiménez from Cisneros in the years 1500 and 1506.

    His feast is celebrated on the eighth of the Ascension, and his name was not among those collected from Usuardo during his trip to Spain in AD 858.

    The Roman Martyrology edited by Cesare Baronius states that ancient manuscripts and documents relating to him exist in the Church of Toledo. But currently sources documenting the life of this saint are unknown.


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