St. Robert Bellarmine
Born 4 October 1542 at Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy ROBERTO FRANCESCO ROMOLO was the third of ten children of Vincenzo Bellarmine and Cinzia Cervini, a family of impoverished nobles. His mother, a niece of Pope Marcellus II, was dedicated to almsgiving, prayer, meditation, fasting, and mortification. Robert suffered assorted health problems all his life. Educated by […]