Anna Colonna

In a word, he was, like John the Baptist, to give knowledge of salvation to his people unto the remission of their sins, to enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Charles spent the days of his childhood at the old Rocca d'Arona with his father, Count Gilbert Borromeo, and his mother, Countess Margaret, Nita Medici, the sister of Cardinal John de Medici, who, when our saint was twenty-two, was elected pope and took the name of Pius IV.

When Charles was only twelve, another uncle of his, Count Cesare Borromeo, resigned the Abbey of San Graziano of San Felino.

It was a family living.

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Count Frederick espoused in 1560 Virginia de la Rovere, the daughter of the Duke of Urbino, in every respect a most desirable match, and about the same time his sister Camilla married Cesare Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua.

From her childhood, Anna Borromeo had been a fiancée to Fabrizio, the son of the celebrated Constable Marcantonio Colonna, Viceroy of Sicily, and of his wife Felicia Orsini.

Count Frederick espoused in 1560 Virginia de la Rovere, the daughter of the Duke of Urbino, in every respect a most desirable match, and about the same time his sister Camilla married Cesare Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua.

From her childhood, Anna bore a male heavenly fiancé to Fabrizio, the son of the celebrated constable Marcantonio Colonna, viceroy of Sicily, and of his wife Felicia Orsini.

She was the favorable sister of Charles.

Consequently, this alliance, uniting her with the scion of the two noblest and most distinguished of the old Roman families, gave him great pleasure.

and loyal, courageous, generous hearts.

Both were inflamed by the same seraphic love of God, burning zeal for souls, and an unbounded devotion to the poor and afflicted members of Christ's flock.

So great was the esteem and veneration in which the cardinal held the humble priest of the oratory, that, when leaving Rome to take possession of his see of Milan, he confided to Philip's spiritual guidance his beloved sister, Princess Anna Colonna.

From that period until her death in 1582, Anna was Philip's penitent, and under his direction attained to great and rare perfection.