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Roberto Francesco Romolo Cardinal Bellarmino (Saint Robert Bellarmine, October 4, 1542 – September 17, 1621) is a Saint and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He is one of only thirty-three Doctors of the Church.Robert Bellarmine was born at Montepulciano to a noble though impoverished family, a nephew of Pope Marcellus II. His abilities showed themselves early; as a boy he knew Virgil by heart, and composed a number of poems in Italian and Latin. One of his hymns, on Mary Magdalene, is included in the Roman Catholic breviary.His father destined him for a political career, hoping that he might restore the fallen glories of the family. His mother, however, wished him to enter the Jesuits, and her influence prevailed. He entered the Roman novitiate in 1560, remaining in Rome three years, and then went to a Jesuit house at Mondovì, in Piedmont. Here he learned Greek, and taught it as fast as he learned it.
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Patronage:Fairfield University; canonists; canon lawyers; catechists; catechumens; Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio
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