Archbishop of Milan, he was born in Arona in the province of Novara in 1538, and he died in Milan on the 3 November 1584. Celebrated on 4 November with the Pastoral Staff, he's the patron of catechists and bishops. He was among the foremost advocates of the renewal in the faith and in customs established by the Council of Trento; he was great in love, great in doctrine, great in the apostolate, but particularly great in piety and devotion.
He was born in 1538 in the castle of the famous family Borromeo on Maggiore Lake. Second son of Count Giberto, he became a priest at 12 years old in Pavia, showing great intellectual gifts. Nephew of Pope Pius IV, he was called to Rome, where he became a cardinal at 22 years old and bishop three years later. He founded in Rome the Academy of "Vatican Nights", then he took part in the Council of Trent. Back in Milan at the head of archidiocese, at that time huge as a reign, he began to found seminaries, then hospices, hospitals and he worked for the rights of the Church, for the comfort of the poor, even with the use of the assets of family . His activity during the terrible plague of 1576 alongside the sick was prodigious; great inspirer and episcope, he marked its foundations under the motto "Humilitas." Tired from fever, still tireless, on the 3 November 1584, at only 46 years old, he died in Milan, leaving to the city a great memory of faith and holiness.