St. Robert Bellarmine

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I was reading about St. Robert Bellarmine the other day and came across something that I must have seen before but never seen as significant.
St. Robert Bellarmine had a great devotion to St. Francis of Assisi, and was especially devoted to honoring Francis’ stigmata. Bellarmine urged that there be a special feast in honor of the five stigmata of St. Francis. Bellarmine had an important position in the Vatican and he made sure that the feast was introduced in the Church, despite strong opposition. As Providence arranged, Robert Bellarmine died on the feast of the stigmata of St. Francis, September 17. And in the revised liturgical calendar St. Bellarmine’s feast, which used to be celebrated on May 13, has been moved to September 17. Among Franciscans September 17 is the feast of the stigmata of St. Francis. In the Universal Church it is the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine.
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So St. Robert, one of the Doctors of the Church, was a Jesuit with a great devotion to St. Francis. Pope Francis has a great precedent here.🙂

Here is the link to article. I encourage those who are unfamiliar with this great Saint to read it. therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_005.htm
 
Thanks for sharing this.I am not that familiar with St. Robert Bellarmine.
St. Robert Bellamine pray for us and our current Pope!
 
I don’t know that much about St. Robert Bellarmine either, but that’s an interesting connection to Pope Francis.

This is a bit tangental, but I was also interested to learn that Pope Francis has a devotion to St. Therese Lisieux 🙂
 
McCall1981 said:
I don’t know that much about St. Robert Bellarmine either, but that’s an interesting connection to Pope Francis.

This is a bit tangental, but I was also interested to learn that Pope Francis has a devotion to St. Therese Lisieux 🙂
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Wow! so many saints and books and so little time! There is just so much great stuff in the Catholic Church, so many layers, so many things to learn, I’m going have to live a real long time to try and get to it all! 😃
 
Funny enough I chose St Robert Bellarmine as my patron saint for confirmation. When I went off to college, i discovered that my university’s patron saint was…Robert Bellarmine.

Coincidence?
 
floresco said:
I was reading about St. Robert Bellarmine the other day and came across something that I must have seen before but never seen as significant.

So St. Robert, one of the Doctors of the Church, was a Jesuit with a great devotion to St. Francis. Pope Francis has a great precedent here.🙂

Here is the link to article. I encourage those who are unfamiliar with this great Saint to read it. therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_005.htm
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Makes sense. St. Ignatius of Loyola wanted to be St. Dominic and especially St. Francis in one person. 🙂
 
CrossofChrist said:
Makes sense. St. Ignatius of Loyola wanted to be St. Dominic and especially St. Francis in one person. 🙂
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I had not known that about this. So the link between Jesuits and Franciscans goes right back to the founding of the Jesuits. I think this can give us some insight into Pope Francis.
 
This is a painting depicting the death of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Notice the tonsured guys wearing the brown habits?

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For many years, the EF Mass was offered in the Archdiocese of Miami at St. Robert Bellarmine church. I was a parishioner there for years.
 
floresco said:
I was reading about St. Robert Bellarmine the other day and came across something that I must have seen before but never seen as significant.

So St. Robert, one of the Doctors of the Church, was a Jesuit with a great devotion to St. Francis. Pope Francis has a great precedent here.🙂

Here is the link to article. I encourage those who are unfamiliar with this great Saint to read it. therealpresence.org/archives/Saints/Saints_005.htm
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What many people don’t know is that St. Ignatius had a very special devotion to St. Francis. In one of his letters to Francis Xavier he said, “I wish I could do what Francis of Assisi did.”

In one of his admonitions to the Jesuits he said, “To be like Jesus one must look at St. Francis.”

The early Jesuits were mendicants. They drifted away from the mendicant tradition as the order developed its own personality. To this day, they are the only non mendicant order that makes the same vows as mendicants, with the same privileges and graces as the mendicants.

Bellarmine was also a great fan of the writings of St. Bonaventure, especially the Itinerarium. He was able to use the Itinerarium in the Spiritual Exercises. Those familiar with the Itinerarium can recognize much of it in Bellarmine’s writings on the Exercises.
 
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Tonsured??? I had to look it up.

And all this time I thought that it was male pattern baldness. :o
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LOL

Actually, they’re not what one thinks of when the word tonsure comes up. This was very typical for the Mendicants, unlike the monks where only the deacons and priests wore the corona. The Franciscan tonsure of our clerics was in the form of a cross. It was done only once in their lifetime.

Moving right along, this is a very telling painting.
 
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