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St. Robert Bellarmine

Feast date: Sep 17

On Sept. 17, the Catholic Church celebrates the Italian cardinal and theologian St. Robert Bellarmine. One of the great saints of the Jesuit order, St. Robert has also been declared a Doctor of the Church and the patron of catechists.

Robert Bellarmine was born on October 4, 1542 in the Tuscan town of Montepulciano. His uncle was a cardinal who later became Pope Marcellus II. As a young man, Robert received his education from the Jesuit order, which had received written papal approval only two years before his birth.

In September of 1560, Robert entered the Jesuit order himself. He studied philosophy for three years in Rome, then taught humanities until 1567, when he began a study of theology that lasted until 1569. The final stage of his training emphasized the refutation of Protestant errors.

Robert received ordination to the priesthood in Belgium, where his sermons drew crowds of both Catholics and Protestants. In 1576, he returned to Italy and took up an academic position addressing theological controversies. The resulting work, his “Disputations,” became a classic of Catholic apologetics.

Near the end of the 1580s, the esteemed theologian became “Spiritual Father” to the Roman College. He served as a guide to St. Aloysius Gonzaga near the end of the young Jesuit’s life, and helped produce the authoritative Latin text of the Bible called for by the recent Council of Trent.

Around the century’s end Robert became an advisor to Pope Clement VIII. The Pope named him a cardinal in 1599, declaring him to be the most educated man in the Church. Robert played a part in a debate between Dominicans and Jesuits regarding grace, though the Pope later decided to appoint and consecrate him as the Archbishop of Capua.

The cardinal archbishop’s three years in Capua stood out as an example of fidelity to the reforming spirit and decrees of the Council of Trent. He was considered as a possible Pope in two successive elections, but the thought of becoming Pope disturbed him and in the end he was never chosen.

In the early years of the 17th century, the cardinal took a public stand for the Church’s freedom when it came under attack in Venice and England. He also attempted, though not successfully, to negotiate peace between the Vatican and his personal friend Galileo Galilei, over the scientist’s insistence that not only the earth, but the entire universe, revolved around the sun.

Cardinal Bellarmine retired due to health problems in the summer of 1621. Two years before, he had set out his thoughts on the end of earthly life in a book titled “The Art of Dying Well.” In that work, the cardinal explained that preparing for death was life’s most important business, since the state of one’s soul at death would determine the person’s eternal destiny.

St. Robert Bellarmine died on September 17, 1621. Pope Pius XI canonized him in 1931, and declared him to be a Doctor of the Church.


Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-robert-bellarmine-366


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    • Daughter of the Church

      Here is what the wiki has to say about St. Robert Bellarmine: “Bellarmine was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1930; the following year he was declared a Doctor of the Church.”

      The feast day of this saint and Doctor of the Church is May 13. It has been switched by the counter-church to ‘September 17′, thus pushing aside a declaration by the next to last authentic pope known to the world prior to the hijacking of the Church during the conclave of October 1958. The antipopes known to the world, have no authority to make suck changes onto the calendar of saints. This switching of the feast day of St. Robert Bellarmine is therefore illegitimate , and the “date of death” does not make a valid reason for such a change in date.
      The staff making ‘CNA – Saint of the Day (Reporter)’ is not expected to give a valid explanation to such a changing in date, so, I’ll give ‘an explanation’. It is vainglory from the part of the usurpers, as all vainglory which are: “I do it because I can”. The subject of ‘vainglory’ is of the Fifteen Sunday Mass after Pentecost, which is to-days epistle Gal. 5, 25-26; 6, 1-10. May this epistle has been changed too?

      BTW: the legitimate choice of epistle of to-day’s Mass of All Time finish by the words:”Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law…

      • Daughter of the Church

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        BTW: the legitimate choice of epistle of to-day’s Mass of All Time, which has remained unchanged, even after the diabolical ‘evolutionary improvements of Vatican II’ finish by the words:”Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.” This ‘trespassing’ applies to the members of the counter-church, and those line typed (as comments) is my gentle attempt at restoring its wrong.

        • Daughter of the Church

          N.B. : to ‘CNA – Saint of the Day (Reporter)’, as well as to the eventual reader to the comment section.

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          This indicate that presently this typing hand, on Sunday early afternoon ‘Paris time’ is alone to be logged at the story on “St. Robert Bellarmine”. The said story is now buried at the N.th page, so the chances that anyone in the internet world dig the comment is next to nil. The staff of ‘CNA – Saint of the Day (Reporter)’, as well as the eventual accomplices to the counter-church who might check on the article, may have reasons to mock the lines. I remind that the epistle of this Sunday’s Mass contains a line which should get anyone’s attention: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked”.

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