11/04/2026
🇮🇹Today we celebrate the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo, who lived in Milan in the 1500s. Despite not being an ordained priest at the time, he was as made a cardinal at the age of 22 thanks to his uncle, Pope Pius IV.
Like several other great saints, he was born into wealth and privilege and was set to inherit the family fortune, but he chose to renounce his inheritance and title to be ordained a priest; he later became Archbishop of Milan.
📜St. Charles Borromeo is best known for his involvement in the Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent, which formally defined the seven sacraments, reaffirmed that divine truth comes from both written scripture and unwritten sacred tradition, upheld the veneration of saints and the existence of Purgatory, and declared that salvation involves both faith and good works.
➕Finally, St. Charles Borromeo was also known for his extreme generosity with his personal money and time, choosing to stay in Milan during a severe plague and tend to the starving, sick and dying.
🙏🏽St. Charles Borromeo, pray for us!