St. Robert Bellarmine: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Works on Bellarmine include E.A. Ryan, The Historical Scholarship of Saint Bellarmine (1936); and James Brodrick, Robert Bellarmine, Saint and Scholar (1961). Spiritual Writings, trans. and ed. by John Patrick Donnelly and Roland J. Teske (1989), provides a selection of his spiritual writing.

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Sep 30, 2025
Anniversary information added. Sep 13, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Feb 15, 2024
Invalidated site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Saint Robert Bellarmine. May 30, 2021
Add new Web site: Franciscan Media - Biography of Saint Robert Bellarmine. May 08, 2019
Added information on his support of the Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation. Dec 15, 2016
Add new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Saint Robert Bellarmine. Aug 01, 2013
"Louvain" changed to "Leuven." Dec 09, 2008
Bibliography revised and updated. Feb 01, 2008
Added new Web site: The Galileo Project - Biography of Robert Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621). Jun 12, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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