feast day: November 4
patron of:
- catechists
- catechumens
- seminarians
- the arts
attributes:
- cord
- red cardinal robes
about:
- 1538–1584
- Italian name: Carlo Borromeo
- Latin name: Carolus Borromeus
- was the cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584
- Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century, Borromeo, with St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others, led the movement to combat the inroads of the Protestant Reformation.
- a leading figure during the Counter-Reformation
- was responsible for significant reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of seminaries for the education of priests
quote:
"Christ summons the Church, as she goes her pilgrim way, to that continual reformation of which she always has need, insofar as she is an institution of men here on earth. Consequently, if, in various times and circumstances, there have been deficiencies in moral conduct or in Church discipline, or even in the way that Church teaching has been formulated—to be carefully distinguished from the deposit of faith itself—these should be set right at the opportune moment and in the proper way" - (Vatican II, Decree on Ecumenism, 6, Austin Flannery translation).
links/ sources:
- "Charles Borromeo" (source: Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Borromeo
- "St. Charles Borromeo" (source: Catholic Online):
http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=212
- "St. Charles Borromeo" (source: Catholic Encyclopedia):
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03619a.htm
- "St. Charles Borromeo" (source: American Catholic):
http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1189
- "St. Charles Borromeo" (source:EWTN):
http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/BORROMEO.HTM
