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Robert Bellarmine SJ (Italian: Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino; 4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 [ 1 ] and named Doctor of the Church , one of only 37.
In 1605 Clement VIII died, and was succeeded by Leo XI who reigned only twenty-six days, and then by Paul V . In both conclaves, especially that latter, the name of Bellarmine was much before the electors, greatly to his own distress, but his quality as a Jesuit stood against him in the judgment of many of the cardinals. The new pope insisted ...
Bellarmine was one of the brightest theologians of his time, and is hailed as the patron saint of catechumens and catechists. His work involved countering the heresy that flooded out of the Protestant Reformation. Bellarmine was born on Oct. 4, 1542, to a poor Italian family.
To Cardinal Bellarmine's surprise, in 1602 the Holy Father named him Archbishop of Capua, a diocese north of Naples. When Paul V was elected on May 16, 1605, the new pope asked Cardinal Bellarmine to remain in Rome, where he was named to several Vatican congregations.
The quarrel led to a war of pamphlets in which the part of the Republic was sustained by John Marsiglio and an apostate monk named Paolo Sarpi, and that of the Holy See by Bellarmine and Baronius. Contemporaneous with the Venetian episode was that of the English Oath of Alliance.
Sep 30, 2024 · St. Robert Bellarmine (born October 4, 1542, Montepulciano, Tuscany [Italy]—died September 17, 1621, Rome; canonized 1930; feast day September 17) was an Italian cardinal and theologian, an opponent of the Protestant doctrines of the Reformation.
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Dec 1, 1994 · In 1981, Pope John Paul II set up a papal commission to study the case anew. The commission, in its report of October 31, 1992, gave high praise to Bellarmine for having declared that if it were really demonstrated that the earth revolves about the sun, it would be necessary to reinterpret the biblical passages which seem to say the contrary.
