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Charles was the son
of Count Gilbert
Borromeo and Margaret Medici, sister of Pope Pius IV. He was born at
the family castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore, Italy on October 2. He
received the clerical tonsure when he was twelve and was sent to the
Benedictine abbey of SS. Gratian and Felinus at Arona for his
education.
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In 1559 his uncle was elected Pope Pius IV and the
following year, named him his Secretary of State and created him a
cardinal and administrator of the see of Milan. He served as Pius'
legate on numerous diplomatic missions and in 1562, was instrumental
in having Pius reconvene the Council of Trent, which had been
suspended in 1552. Charles played a leading role in guiding and in
fashioning the decrees of the third and last group of sessions. He
refused the headship of the Borromeo family on the death of Count
Frederick Borromeo, was ordained a priest in 1563, and was consecrated
bishop of Milan the same year. Before being allowed to take possession
of his see, he oversaw the catechism, missal, and breviary called for
by the Council of Trent. When he finally did arrive at Trent (which
had been without a resident bishop for eighty years) in 1556, he
instituted radical reforms despite great opposition, with such
effectiveness that it became a model see. He put into effect, measures
to improve the morals and manners of the clergy and laity, raised the
effectiveness of the diocesan operation, established seminaries for
the education of the clergy, founded a Confraternity of Christian
Doctrine for the religious instruction of children and encouraged the
Jesuits in his see. He increased the systems to the poor and the
needy, was most generous in his help to the English college at Douai,
and during his bishopric held eleven diocesan synods and six
provincial councils. He founded a society of secular priests, Oblates
of St. Ambrose (now Oblates of St. Charles) in 1578, and was active in
preaching, resisting the inroads of protestantism, and bringing back
lapsed Catholics to the Church.
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on the night of November 3-4, and was canonized in 1610. He was one of
the towering figures of the Catholic Reformation, a patron of learning
and the arts, and though he achieved a position of great power, he
used it with humility, personal sanctity, and unselfishness to reform
the Church, of the evils and abuses so prevalent among the clergy and
the nobles of the times.
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