Tommaso Badia was an Italian Dominican

Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

 cardinal

Cardinal (Catholicism)

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Badia was born in Modena

Modena

Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

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He contributed to the establishment of the Jesuits. He was theological advisor of cardinal Gasparo Contarini

Gasparo Contarini

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. He was disputant in Worms

Worms, Germany

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 1540 and Regensburg

Regensburg

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 1541. He was promoted cardinal by Pope Paul III on June 2, 1542, but did not accept the offer to be bishop of Urbino at the same time.

He died in Rome in 1547.

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