VINTAGE SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO MEDAL catholic leaders

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Sold Date: 10/08/2007
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Fraternal, Political, Organizations

VINTAGE MEDAL SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO

MEASURES: 3/4" INCHES APPROX

MATERIAL: SILVER GERMAN. SILVER GERMAN IS STERLING SILVER WITH OTHER ALLOYS.

CONDITION: PERFECT

CHARLES BORROMEO Also known as Carlo Borromeo; Father of the Clergy; Apostle to the Council of Trent Memorial 4 November ; formerly 5 November Profile Born to a wealthy, noble family, the third of six children , son of Count Giberto II Borromeo and Margherita de' Medici. Nephew of Pope Pius IV . Suffered with a speech impediment . Studied in Milan , and at the University of Pavia, studying at one point under the future Pope Gregory XIII . Civil and canon lawyer at age 21. Cleric at Milan , taking the habit on 13 October 1547 . Abbot commendatario of San Felino e San Graziano abbey in Arona, on 20 November 1547 . Abbot commendatario of San Silano di Romagnano abbey on 10 May 1558 . Prior commendatario of San Maria di Calvenzano abbey on 8 December 1558 . Protonotary apostolic participantium and referendary of the papal court to Pope Pius IV on 13 January 1560 . Member of the counsulta for the administration of the Papal States on 22 January 1560 . Appointed abbot commendatario of Nonatola, San Gallo di Moggio, Serravalle della Follina, San Stefano del Corno, an abbey in Portugal , and an abbey in Flanders on 27 January 1560 . Created cardinal on 31 January 1560 at 22.
Apostolic administrator of Milan , Italy on 8 February 1560 . Papal legate to Bologna and Romandiola for two years beginning on 26 April 1560 . Deacon on 21 December 1560 . Vatican Secretary of State. Governor of Civita Castellana in 1561 . Governor of Ancona on 1 June 1561 . Made an honorary citizen of Rome on 1 July 1561 . Founded the Accademia Vaticana in 1562 . Governor of Spoleto , Italy on 1 December 1562 . Ordained on 4 September 1563 . Helped re-open the Council of Trent , and participated in its sessions during 1562 and 1563 . Named prince of Orta in 1563 . Member of the Congregation of the Holy Office . Bishop of Milan on 7 December 1563 . President of the commission of theologians charged by the pope to elaborate the Catechismus Romanus . Worked on the revision of the Missal and Breviary . Member of a commission to reform church music. Archbishop of Milan on 12 May 1564 . Governor of Terracina on 3 June 1564 . Archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian basilica in Rome in October 1564 . Count of the Palatine in 1564 . Prefect of the Tridentine Council from 1564 until September 1565 . Papal legate in Bologna , Romandiola, legate a latere , and vicar general in spiritualibus of all Italy on 17 August 1565 . Grand penitentiary on 7 November 1565 . Participated in the conclave of cardinals in 1565 to 1566 that chose Pope Pius V ; he asked the new pope to take the name. Protector of the Swiss Catholic cantons; he visited them all several times worked for the spiritual reform of both clergy and laymen . Due to his enforcement of strict ecclesiastical discipline, some disgruntled monks in the Order of the Humiliati hired a lay brother to murder him on the evening of 26 October 1569 ; he was shot at, but was not hit. Participated in the conclave in 1572 that chose Pope Gregory XIII . Member of the Apostolic Penitentiary in May 1572 . Worked with the sick , and helped bury the dead during the plague outbreak in Milan in 1576 . Established the Oblates of Saint Ambrose on 26 April 1578 . Teacher , confessor and parish priest to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga , giving him his first communion on 22 July 1580 . To help the Swiss Catholics he founded the Collegium Helveticum .
Saint Charles spent his life and fortune in the service of the people of his diocese . He directed and fervently enforced the decrees of the Council of Trent , fought tirelessly for peace in the wake of the storm caused by Martin Luther, founded schools for the poor , seminaries for clerics , hospitals for the sick , conducted synods, instituted children 's Sunday school, did great public and private penance, and worked among the sick and dying , leading his people by...