Italian Jesuit theologian and cardinal, author of the Disputationes against the Protestant controversialists and of catechisms and devotional works; canonised in 1930 and named a Doctor of the Church in 1931.
A year's course of fifty-nine Sunday and feast-day sermons, from Advent to the last Sunday after Pentecost, each with a printed synopsis, which Baxter, a Boston parish priest, built mainly from Cardinal Bellarmine's Latin Conciones Sacrae, with further material from Paolo Segneri and Agostino da Montefeltro; his preface says the manner is his own and the doctrine and thought are theirs.
Cardinal Bellarmine's 1620 treatise teaching that to die well one must live well, set out as precepts on dying to the world, the theological virtues, the evangelical counsels, prayer, fasting, almsgiving and the sacraments.
