Asteroid 14953, Bevilacqua, was discovered February 13, 1996 by Maura Tombelli and Giuseppe Forti at Asiago, Vicenza, Italy. It has a period of 3 years, 187 days.
It was named for Italian space engineer Franco Bevilacqua (born 1937), who is largely a promoter of space missions and implementer of astrometric projects (like Giotto and Hipparcos).
Another man named Bevilacqua, the late former Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia Anthony Bevilacqua, became notorious for his reactionary attitudes as well as his failure to address child molestation scandals in his archdiocese.
Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, former Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia
Astrologically, asteroid Bevilacqua seems to indicate reactionary or backward attitudes, negligent or abusive attitude toward the vulnerable or disadvantaged, or (possibly) conversely, promotion of progress (technological or social).
Andrea Yates,a fundamentalist mother from Texas who drowned her five children in the bathtub as a result of severe postpartum depression, has Bevilacqua semisextile/quincunx the Nodes. The resulting publicity raised awareness of postpartum depression, fundamentalist religion and the ethics (or lack thereof) of imposing the death penalty on the mentally ill.
W.A. Criswell, who was instrumental in moving the Southern Baptist Convention to the right, had Bevilacqua conjunct Vesta.
Reactionary Mississippi senator Trent Lott has Bevilacqua trine Ixion and opposite Pluto.
Iconic actor John Wayne has Bevilacqua sextile Ceres and trine Lilith.
Pope Benedict XVI has Bevilacqua in the twelfth house, square Vesta, trine the Moon and quincunx Pluto.
Mel Gibson, notorious for his reactionary, even bigoted, beliefs, has Bevilacqua in the eighth house, conjunct Vesta.
Fundamentalist minister Michael Peter Woroniecki has Bevilacqua trine Nessus.
Infamous homophobe Fred Phelps has Bevilacqua sextile Saturn, square Lilith and quincunx Hylonome.
Prominent Christian Right leader James Dobson has Bevilacqua sextile the Sun, square Hidalgo and Ixion, and trine Elatus.
The glyph for Bevilacqua is mine.