Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, the thirty-one-year-old dean of Milan…

Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, the thirty-one-year-old dean of Milan cathedral, founds a new religious order, the Institute of the Brethren of Charity (later to be known in Italy generally as the Rosminians) in 1828.

The members might be priests or laymen, who devote themselves to preaching, the education of youth, and works of charity—material, moral, and intellectual.

The scion of a wealthy, noble Italian family, Rosmini-Serbati had at an early age decided to enter the priesthood.

After studying at Pavia and Padua, he had taken orders in 1821.