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On October 4, 1542, Robert Bellarmine was born in Montepulciano, a town in Tuscany. A cardinal by trade, his uncle went on to become Pope Marcellus II. Just two years before his birth, the Jesuit o...
In 1581, Peter Claver was born into a farmer family in the Spanish province of Catalonia. After completing his studies at the University of Barcelona, he became a novice Jesuit at twenty. Read More
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who is revered as a Doctor of the Church for his numerous attempts to prevent a schism in the Church in 1130 and for his writings and sermons that had a significant impact...