Dates

• Existence: 1538 October 2 - 1584 November 3

Biographical note

Son of Count Gilbert Borromeo by a Medici mother, born in 1538. His uncle Pope Pius IV appointed him archbishop of Milan and cardinal when he was aged only twenty-two. He did not receive priestly or episcopal orders until the year 1563. He died in 1584, and was canonized in 1610.

(paraphrased from The Book of Saints : A Dictionary of Persons Canonized or Beatified by the Catholic Church. 5th edition. New York: Crowell, 1966.)

Alternate names

Carlo Borromeo, Carolus Borromeus