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8 unusual facts about Charles Borromeo


Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio

The palace was built quickly, between 1562 and 1563, by order of Saint Charles Borromeo, then pontifical legate in Bologna.

Ascona

After negotiations with Charles Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan and representatives of Pope Gregory XIII, it was decided to sell the originally planned Casa Papio and to build the Collegio Papio college next to the Church of S. Maria della Misericordia.

Biasca

After repeated searches, Charles Borromeo choose Biasca as the center to spread the reforms of the Council of Trent to the Tre Valli region.

Cardinal Borromeo

Saint Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584, important person in the church

Grafschaft Abbey

In 1947 the buildings were given to the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Charles Borromeo, who had been expelled from the order's former mother house Trebnitz Abbey, in Silesia.

Jean-Pierre Camus

His sermons occasionally took the form of moral exhortation - which foreshadowed the practice of later Neoclassical preachers - and drew on the lives of the saints as moral exemplars, of whom Charles Borromeo and Ignatius of Loyola were favorite of his.

Sunchales, Santa Fe

Sunchales is also the seat of the National Festival of Children's Soccer in October, and celebrates the feast of its patron saint, Charles Borromeo, on November 4.

Tudhoe

Tudhoe's own Anglican churches, Holy Innocents and St David's, were not built until 1866 and 1880, respectively, though there is a large Catholic church, dedicated to St. Charles Borromeo, which was founded in 1858.


Archiginnasio of Bologna

The construction of the Archiginnasio was commissioned by Pope Pius IV through the papal legates Charles Borromeo and Pier Donato Cesi during the years of the Council of Trent, who then entrusted the project to Antonio Morandi (known as il Terribilia), who finished the construction between 1562 and 1563.

Benedetto Erba Odescalchi

As Archbishop of Milan he focused on pastoral activities, taking as examples Saint Charles Borromeo and Pope Innocent XI.

Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo

The members placed themselves under the patronage of St. Charles Borromeo, called the "Apostle of Charity", and adopted the constitutions drawn up by Dom Epiphane Louys, Abbot of Estivals and Vicar General of the reformed Premonstratensians.

Votive statue of the Holy Trinity

The statue consists of a high pedestal with gigantic volutes, where is five statues of the patron saint of plague: Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Rosalia.


see also

Johann Jakob Frey the Elder

Charles Borromeo interceding for the Plague-stricken; after Pietro da Cortona.

Monsignor Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School

In 1908, he entered St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and began studying at the North American College in Rome.

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

She was buried at the Chapelle royale de Dreux, the Royal basilica of the House of Orléans, in 1979, having been transferred from the Chapel of Saint Charles Borromeo in Weybridge.

Saint Charles Borromeo Major Seminary of Nyakibanda

The Saint Charles Borromeo Major Seminary of Nyakibanda is a Roman Catholic seminary near to Butare, Rwanda.

St. Anthony, Minnesota

H. Timothy ("Tim") Vakoc – former associate pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, in St. Anthony, and the first U.S. military chaplain to die from wounds received in the Iraq War.

The Very Best of Andy Williams

# "Ave Maria" with the St. Charles Borromeo Choir (Franz Schubert) – 4:55