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On the Holy Life and Remarkable Intellect of Saint Robert Bellarmine, by Dawn Beutner – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, September 17, 2025

Dawn Beutner is the editor of a new book All Things Are Possible: The Selected Writings of Mother Cabrini (Ignatius Press, 2025). She is also the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com and has been active in various pro-life ministries for more than thirty years.

(Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally, in slightly different form, on September 17, 2021.)

He was one of the most brilliant men of his age, but he was a humble man and an exemplary priest who lived a virtuous and austere life.

On September 17, 1621, the Cardinal-priest Robert Bellarmine died in Rome. Why did Pope Pius XI declare him a saint in 1930? And why did the same pope declare him a Doctor of the Church in 1931?

Bellarmine was born into a noble but relatively poor family in Montepulciano, Italy. When he was only twelve years old, his uncle was elected pope and became Pope Marcellus II. But that reform-minded pope didn’t have time to further encourage his nephew to become a priest. Marcellus died after only twenty-two days in office. …

On the Holy Life and Remarkable Intellect of Saint Robert Bellarmine, by Dawn Beutner

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By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, September 17, 2025

(Editor’s note: This essay was posted originally, in slightly different form, on September 17, 2021.)

He was one of the most brilliant men of his age, but he was a humble man and an exemplary priest who lived a virtuous and austere life.

On September 17, 1621, the Cardinal-priest Robert Bellarmine died in Rome. Why did Pope Pius XI declare him a saint in 1930? And why did the same pope declare him a Doctor of the Church in 1931?

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