Robert Bellarmine

:This article is about Robert Bellarmine, the Catholic Saint. For the San Jose, California boys' high school, see Bellarmine College Preparatory. For the Louisville, Kentucky college, see Bellarmine University.

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Bellarmine College Preparatory - Bellarmine University

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Roberto Francesco Romolo Cardinal Bellarmino (Saint Robert Bellarmine), a Saint and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a controversialist, was born

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Saint - Cardinal - Roman Catholic Church

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at Montepulciano in Tuscany, Italy, October 4, 1542; died in Rome September 17, 1621. He is one of only 33 Doctors of the Church.

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Montepulciano - Tuscany - Italy - October 4 - 1542 - Rome - September 17 - 1621 - Doctors of the Church

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He was a nephew of Pope Marcellus II, and came of a noble though impoverished family. 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.

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Pope Marcellus II - Virgil - Italian - Latin - Mary Magdalene - Breviary

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His father destined him for a political career, hoping that he might restore the fallen glories of the house; but his mother wished him to enter the Jesuits, and her influence prevailed. He entered the Roman novitiate in 1560, remained in Rome three years, and then went to a Jesuit house at Mondovi, in Piedmont. Here he learned Greek, and taught it as fast as he learned it.

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Jesuits - 1560 - Mondovi - Piedmont - Greek

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His systematic study of theology began at Padua in 1567 and 1568, where

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Theology - Padua - 1567 - 1568

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his teachers were Thomists.

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