Jones, C. A. Life and Times of S. Charles Borromeo. London: Hayes and Co., 1877. Royal blue publisher's cloth with gilt titles, 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, joints good, small pill-sized stain top of front cover. xv, [1], [1]-207 clean pp., 16-pp. publisher's catalogue. Very good. Hardcover.
The publisher's catalogue has the date of January, 1877.
Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584), Italian Archbishop of Milan, an influential leader of the Counter-Reformation against the Protestants. His uncle, Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Medici, was elected to the Papacy in 1559, taking the name Pope Pius IV. Borromeo was made a cardinal by him in 1560, and granted him significant power within the Papal States and as a supervisor of the Franciscans, the Carmelites, and of the Knights of Malta. Borromeo organized the third and last session of the Council of Trent in 1562-63.
Borromeo is remembered as one who was personally devout and ascetic in his life and who sought to enact true spiritual reforms within the Roman church. He made great strides toward an educated priesthood, establishing seminaries, colleges and communities toward that end. His reforms were met with great opposition.
