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Festivities of San Carlos Borromeo

Las Labores, La Mancha, Ciudad Real

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Festivities of San Carlos Borromeo

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Patronal festivities of Las Labores (Ciudad Real) in honour of San Carlos Borromeo (Saint Charles Borromeo), an Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, nephew of Pope Pius IV, and one of the great figures of the Catholic Counter-Reformation alongside Ignatius of Loyola and Philip Neri; he promoted the founding of seminaries for the training of priests, a proposal approved at the Council of Trent. Canonised in 1610, his feast day is celebrated on 4 November, the day on which Las Labores honours its patron saint.

4 de noviembre

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