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Charles was the son of Count Gilbert Borromeo and Margaret Medici, sister of Pope Pius IV. He was born on the household citadel of Arona on Lake Maggiore, Italy, on October 2. He acquired the clerical tonsure when he was twelve and was despatched to the Benedictine abbey of Saints Gratian and Felinus at Arona for his schooling.
In 1559 his uncle was elected Pope Pius IV and the next 12 months, named Charles his secretary of state and created him a cardinal and administrator of the see of Milan. He served as Pius’s legate on quite a few diplomatic missions and in 1562, was instrumental in having Pius reconvene the Council of Trent, which had been suspended in 1552.
Charles performed a number one position in guiding and in fashioning the decrees of the third and final group of periods. He refused the headship of the Borromeo household on the demise of Count Frederick Borromeo, was ordained a priest in 1563, and was consecrated bishop of Milan the identical 12 months.
Before being allowed to take possession of his see, he oversaw the catechism, missal, and breviary known as for by the Council of Trent. When he lastly did arrive at Trent (which had been and not using a resident bishop for eighty years) in 1556, he instituted radical reforms regardless of nice opposition, with such effectiveness that it grew to become a mannequin see. He enforce measures to enhance the morals and manners of the clergy and laity, raised the effectiveness of the diocesan operation, established seminaries for the schooling of the clergy, based a Confraternity of Christian Doctrine for the non secular instruction of kids, and inspired the Jesuits in his see.
He elevated help to the poor and the needy, was most beneficiant in his assist to the English school at Douai, and through his bishopric held eleven diocesan synods and 6 provincial councils. He based a society of secular monks, Oblates of St. Ambrose (now Oblates of St. Charles) in 1578, and was lively in preaching, resisting the inroads of Protestantism, and bringing again lapsed Catholics to the Church. He encountered opposition from many sources in his efforts to reform folks and establishments.
My brothers, you will need to notice that for us churchmen nothing is extra vital than meditation. We should meditate earlier than, throughout, and after all the pieces we do. The prophet says: “I’ll pray, after which I’ll perceive.”
— From a homily of St. Charles Borromeo
Johnnette’s Meditation
What place in my prayer life does meditation on Sacred Scripture or on the truths of the Faith maintain? How has it helped to grasp God, myself, and others higher?
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- Saints Vitalis and Agricola (third Century), Martyrs
picture: H. Carolus Borromaeus Rijksmuseum, CC0, through Wikimedia Commons
