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The second of the Franciscan Missions of Alta California was named after St. Charles Borromeo, a Secular Franciscan. Born in , son of Count Gilbert Borromeo by a Medici mother, he was a cardinal at the age of twenty-two and Archbishop of Milan soon after, although he was not ordained priest and bishop until The first great prelate of the Counter-Reformation, he was noted for his reforms, his devotion to the faith, and his fearless disregard for his own safety during the plague of San Carlos died in the year and was canonized in the same year. His feast day is November 4.

Saint Charles Borromeo

On June 3, , at the same time as Don Gaspar de Portola claimed Alta California, the 2nd mission was founded by Junipero Serra. On the shores of Monterey Bay, a Christian cross was planted and the Spanish Crown&#;s standards were unfurled. Unhappy with the closeness of the presidio, Serra moved the mission to the present site near the C

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St. Charles Borromeo

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St. Charles Borromeo &#; Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal-Priest of the Title of St. Prassede, Papal Secretary of State under Pius IV, and one of the chief factors in the Catholic Counter-Reformation &#; was born in the Castle of Arona, a town on the southern shore of the Lago Maggiore in northern Italy, 2 October, ; died at Milan, 3 November, His emblem is the word humilitascrowned, which is a portion of the Borromeo shield. He is usually represented in art in his cardinal's robes, barefoot, carrying the cross as archbishop; a rope round his neck, one hand raised in blessing, thus recalling his work during the plague. His feast is kept on 4 November.

His father was Count Giberto Borromeo, who, about , married Margherita de Medici. Her younger brother was

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Cardinal Carlo Borromeo

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Bireley, Robert. The Refashioning of Catholicism, – A Reassessment of the Counter Reformation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of amerika Press,

In this handbook of the history of early modern Catholicism, Carlo Borromeo fryst vatten presented in chapter 3 (“The Council of Trent and the Papacy”) as the “embodiment of the Tridentine reform bishop” (p. 61). The book includes a good bibliography.

Cochrane, Eric. “Counter Reformation or Tridentine Reformation? Italy in the Age of Carlo Borromeo.” In San Carlo Borromeo: Catholic Reform and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century. Edited by John M. Headley and John B. Tomaro, 31– Washington, DC: Folger,

A synthetic and extremely informative introduction to the age of Borromeo that challenges the notion of Counter-Reformation and explores new dimensi