Jean Baptiste François Pitra
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Jean Baptiste Francois Pitra (1812 - 1889) was a French Catholic cardinal, archaeologist and theologian.
He was born in Champforgeuil. Joining the Benedictine Order, he entered the Abbey of Solesmes in 1842, and was collaborator of Abbe Migne in the latter's Cursus patrologire. He was created cardinal in 1863, and appointed librarian of the Vatican in 1869. He is especially noteworthy for his great archaeological discoveries, including the Inscription of Autun, and is the author of numerous works on archaeological, theological, and historical subjects.
This article incorporates text from the entry Jean-Baptiste-François Pitra in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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