Roman Catholic Cardinal. L'Aquila born Corrado Bafile Italy was the youngest of twelve of a physician. Receiving his first education at the local elementary school and the lyceum Domenico Cotugno, he frequented the faculty of chemistry of the University of Münich, Germany, and after the death of his father, entered the faculty of law at the University of Rome, graduating in 1926. Exercising the profession of legal procurator, he was inscribed in the register of the court of appeals of L'Aquila in June 1927. The death of a brother in 1932 led him to enter the Major Roman Seminary, pursuing further studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Lateran Athenaeum and Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles, earning a doctorate in canon law. Ordained priest on Holy Saturday, April 11, 1936 in Rome, he entered the Vatican Secretariat of State serving in Budapest in 1956 during the Hungarian uprising and in Berlin in the early 1960's during the construction of the Berlin Wall. Chaplain to the Abruzzi community in Rome and national chaplain to the Legion of Mary in Italy, he was appointed Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on June 24, 1954. On February 13, 1960, Pope John XXIII elected him archbishop of the titular see of Antiochia di Psidia and appointed apostolic nuncio in Germany. Bafile received his episcopal consecration on the following March 19 at the Sistine Chapel from the named Pontiff. Appointed pro-prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints on July 11, 1975, in the consistory of May 24 of the following year, Pope Paul VI created him cardinal deacon with the deaconry of Santa Maria in Portico and appointed him prefect of Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints the following day. Resigning the prefecture on June 27, 1980, he opted for the order of cardinal priests on June 22, 1987 with his deaconry elevated 'pro illa vice' to title. Well enough to be received by Pope John Paul II on his one hundredth birthday in 2003, Cardinal Bafile passed away after a brief hospitalization at the Clinica Pio XI of Rome following complications related to influenza at the venerable age of one hundred and one and was buried inside the parish church of Santa Maria Paganica in L'Aquila where he was baptized.