Person

Robert Cardinal Bellarmine

Italian Jesuit and cardinal of the Catholic Church

b. 1541 CE – d. 1621 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Robert Bellarmine (full name in Italian: Roberto Francesco Romolo Bellarmino) (4 October 1542 – 17 September 1621) is an Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

He is one of the most important cardinals of the Catholic Reformation.

He is canonized (i.e.

officially declared a saint) in 1930 and is a Doctor of the Church.