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| | St Charles Borromeo |
 | | St Charles Borromeo, the model of pastors and the reformer of ecclesiastical discipline in these degenerate ages, was son of Gilbert Borromeo, Count of Arona, and his lady, Margaret of Medicis, sister to John James of Medicis, Marquis of Marignan, and of Cardinal John Angelus of Medicis, afterwards Pope Pius IV. |
 | | Charles was born on the cad of October, in 1538, in the castle of Arona, upon the borders of Lake-Major, fourteen miles from Milan. |
 | | Charles, as young as he was, put his father in mind that the revenue, except what was expended on his necessary education at his studies for the service of the church, was the patrimony of the poor, and could not be applies to any other uses or blended with his other money. |
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