Roman Catholic Cardinal. Bordogna born Felice Cavagnis received his early education at the local school and later in Zogno and Bergamo, where he entered seminary in 1853. Moving to the Pontifical Roman Seminary, he underwent further studies at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum of S. Apollinare, from where he earned his doctorates in philosophy, theology and utroque iure in both civil and canon laws. Ordained priest on September 19, 1863 in Rome, he returned to his native Bergamo where he lectured philosophy at Collegio di Celana until the end of 1871, when he was called to Rome and assigned the same position at the named Athenaeum of S. Apollinare, a post which he occupied until 1879 when he became professor of Canonical Institutions. Becoming the first professor of Public Ecclesiastical Law in 1889, he was named to the chair of Canonical Texts that same year. During this period he wrote his renowned "Institutiones Juris Publici Ecclesiastici". Consultor of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, he was also a member of the Special Congregation for the Revision of the Provincial Councils in the Sacred Congregation of the Council. Appointed domestic prelate of His Holiness in 1884, he served as ecclesiastical assistant of the Superior Council of the Italian Catholic Youth from 1884 until 1901, was named prelate referendary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature on January 15, 1885, protonotary apostolic 'ad instar' on June 11, 1885, canon of the Patriarchal Liberian Basilica in 1885, rector of the Major Roman Seminary, pro-secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs on June 20, 1893 and its secretary on August 14, 1896. Holding a relevant role in the religious questions that affected Hungary, in the reorganization of the Catholic Church in Cuba and in the Philippines and in the preparation of the First Latin American Plenary Council, celebrated in Rome in 1899, Pope Leo XIII created him cardinal deacon in the consistory of April 15, 1901, with the deaconry of Santa Maria ad Martyres. Suffering a paralysis of the heart in his Roman residence, Palazzo Lante, the Cardinal died on December 29, 1906, suddenly in the evening. His body was found in his bed the next morning. Exposed in the church of Sant'Eustachio, he was later buried in the chapel of the cemetery of Serina, Bergamo. On the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, his remains were transferred from the said cemetery to the local prepositural church of Santa Maria Annunziata.