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Borromeo had himself been created Cardinal and Archbishop by his
uncle Pius IV, when under twenty years of age, and though he had been
accustomed to live in splendor at Rome, and might have dreaded the
displeasure of the Pontiff for whom he held the public and privy seal and
acted as Grand Penitentiary and Legate of Bologna and Romagna, he
at once           eighty of his servants immediately after reform had
been recommended by the Council of Trent, laid aside his robes of silk,
fasted weekly, often daily, and subsequently renounced the coat of arms
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