 When Pope Paul III contemplated assembling a general Council at Mantua, he sent (1536) the Cardinal of the Holy Cross to Emperor Ferdinand I, King of the Romans and of Hungary, to promote that cause.The cardinal, however, died in 1540 and did not live to see the opening of the Council of Trent in 1545.His body was brought from Veroli to Rome and buried in his titular church, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, in a tomb which he had prepared himself.