Pope Gregorio XVI propaganda congregations' Consultant named him and of the Index, professor of the University Of Rome, polyglot director of the typography of Propaganda Fide and, the December 8th, 1845, Bishop Of Aversa.  From 1853 to 1863 Pius IX entrusted him delicate tasks near the imperial Munich and Austria courts, where was named Apostolic Nuncio, and assigned to important missions in Hungary and Romania.
To Munich and Vienna the cardinal, able negotiator, drafted the pacts between the two kingdoms and the Santa Sede and received prestigious honors. Antonino Saverio De Luca was named Cardinal on March 16 of 1863. Benedetto Radice writes what "Pius IX wanted to reward the diplomatic industry, the doctrine of the nuncio De Luca and his faith in the destinies of the papacy, raising it to the cardinality". The red zucchetto was sent to him to Vienna, if the De Luca remained as Pronuncio until his successor's arrival. Was extremely dear to Metternich and to the emperor Francesco Giuseppe that in May 13, with solemn ceremony, wanted to put on the head of the Nuncio the Cardinal's biretta and conferred him the Big Cross of Saint Stefano of Hungary, usual honor given to sovereigns, royal princes and first ministers. He was considered a missed Pope in the next conclave to the Pius IX (1878) death.He died in Rome on December 29 of 1883, in his flat at the palace of the Vatican stationery. Is buried in Rome In The Church in San Lorenzo in Damaso, where, close to the tomb of Pellegrino Rossi, the Cardinal, still living, had raised a magnificent mausoleum (work of the sculptor Prinzi).
The funereal monument that, still living, the card. De Luca made raise in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso. In high relief, which occupies a whole wall of the church, the angel of the Resurrection, the cardinal genuflect and Christ, winner of the death are noticed, surrounded by the angels. A small angel in bass to the center, holds the inscription "ego sum resurrectio et vita". The De Luca was considered a "missed Pope".
Among his many works, the "Annals of religious sciences" (an international religious magazine dedicated to scholars of religious sciences) remained famous, which he founded in Rome in 1835 and which he directed, collaborating with, for over ten years. An eminent scholar, he published numerous works of religious and historical culture while he left his main work "Political and religious events in Ireland from 1536 to 1829" unpublished. The manuscript work is preserved by his nephew Cav. Placido De Luca; bears this title: "Religious and political history of Ireland from the first introduction of the Reformation 1536 to the civil emancipation of Catholics", written by Abbot De Luca, 15 August 1835”.
Today the precious manuscripts, accompanied by copies of the historical documents consulted by De Luca, are preserved in two voluminous folders in the Library of the Real Collegio Capizzi.
A few years ago, the former president of the European Parliament, the Irishman Pat Cox, came to Bronte to take a look at it. | 
Antonino Saverio De Luca, (Bronte 1805 -- Rome 1883), cardinal, brother of 
Among his works remained famous the "Annali delle scienze religiose" (Annals of religious sciences, an international religious magazine dedicated to the lovers of the religious sciences), that he had founded in Rome in 1835 and that he directed, and collaborated with, for ten years.
The monument that Cardinal De Luca had erected while still alive in Rome in the right nave of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Damaso (next to the tomb of Pellegrino Rossi) is the work of the Sicilian sculptor Giuseppe Prinzi (1831-1895).
