17th Century Painting Representative Saint Charles Borromeo San Carlo Patron Of Seminarians

Oil on light wood panel representing Saint Charles Borromeo (1538-1584)* in prayer before the Bible and a crucifix in front of a human skull.
Called in Italy San Carlo, Charles Borromeo is considered the patron saint of seminarians and spiritual directors.
Labeled STVS CHARO LVS top left.
sold as found, the panel has been treated and is very solid.
Period early / mid 17th.
*Archbishop of Milan, particularly attached to the application of the Tridentine reforms. From a noble Milanese family, this nephew of Pope Pius IV was made a cardinal at the age of twenty-two. After the end of the Council of Trent (1563), Charles Borromeo devoted himself to the application, in his own diocese, of the conciliar reforms: founding of a seminary, restoration of churches and monasteries, repression of abuses, regular holding of synods and provincial councils to reform the clergy. He defends against the King of Spain, in Lombardy, the rights and privileges of the Church; courageous and devoted during the epidemic of plague (1576), he multiplies the brotherhoods and pious unions, the great processions, the pilgrimages (to the Holy Shroud of Turin, in particular), the schools and the minor seminaries. He was canonized in 1610. Author of spiritual treatises and numerous sermons, Charles Borromeo is best known for the Acts by means of which he organized his diocese; attentive to implementing the Tridentine reforms, he remains the model of the bishop concerned with the formation of priests and convinced of the primacy of pastoral tasks.
source:universalis.fr
Delivery by registered colissimo with insurance and delivered against signature for:
France €25
Europe €45
Rest of the world €69