Charles Borromeo
Charles Borromeo For the Indian sprinter, see Charles Borromeo (athlete). not be applied to secular use. The young man attended the University of Pavia, where he applied himself to the study of civil and canon law. Due to a slight impediment Charles Borromeo (Italian: Carlo Borromeo, Latin: of speech, he was regarded as slow; yet his thoroughness Carolus Borromeus, 1538–1584) was the cardinal and industry more than compensated for the handicap.[2] archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century, Borromeo, In 1554 his father died, and although he had an elder with St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others, brother, Count Federico, he was requested by the family led the movement to combat the inroads of the Protes- to take the management of their domestic affairs. After tant Reformation. He was a leading figure during the a time, he resumed his studies, and on December 6, 1559 Counter-Reformation and was responsible for significant he earned a doctorate in utroque iure (Canon and Civil reforms in the Catholic Church, including the founding of Law). seminaries for the education of priests. He is honoured as a saint in the Catholic Church and his feast day is 4 November. 3 Rome period 1 Sources On December 25, 1559, his uncle, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Medici, was raised to the pontificate as Pope Pius IV. The new elected pope required his nephew Charles Borromeo’s biography was originally written by three of Borromeo to come to Rome, and on January 13, 1560 ap- his contemporaries: Agostino Valerio (afterwards Cardi- pointed him protonotary apostolic.[3] Shortly thereafter, nal and Bishop of Verona) and Carlo Bascape (General on January 31, 1560, the Pope created him Cardinal, of the Barnabites, afterwards Bishop of Novara), who and thus Charles Borromeo as Cardinal-nephew was en- wrote their contributions in Latin, and Pietro Giussanno trusted with both the public and the privy seal of the ec- (a priest), who wrote his in Italian.
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