The Art of Dying Well

by Robert Bellarmine

Publisher:

Richardson and Son

, 1847

Overview

Though known for his more controversial writings, in his retirement St. Robert Bellarmine wrote several devotionals that both Catholics and Protestants greatly admired. The Art of Dying Well is a beautiful meditation on death, and contains many practical lessons “on the most important of all arts.”

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Key Features

• Offers practical lessons on facing mortality
• Provides insight into early seventeenth-century spirituality
• Presents the wisdom of a modern Doctor of the Church

Contents

Top Highlights

“This first great truth now remains established, that a good death depends upon a good life.” (Page 5)

“From these testimonies, therefore, of Holy Writ it is quite evident, that death possesses an advantage, in freeing us from the miseries of this life. But it also hath a still more excellent advantage, because it may become the gate from a prison to a Kingdom.” (Page 3)

“Now, that we may live well it is necessary, in the first place, that we die to the world before we die in the body. All they who live to the world are dead to God: we cannot in any way begin to live to God, unless we first die to the world.” (Page 5)

“charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.” (Page 7)

“But the general rule, ‘that he who lives well, will die well,’ must be mentioned before all others: for since death is nothing more than the end of life, it is certain that all who live well to the end, die well; nor can he die ill, who hath never lived ill; as, on the other hand, he who hath never led a good life, cannot die a good death.” (Page 4)

Product Details

• Title: The Art of Dying Well
• Author: St. Robert Bellarmine
• Publisher: Richardson and Son
• Pages: 46
• Christian Group: Catholic
• Resource Type: Topical
• Topic: Post-Reformation, Spirituality

About Robert Bellarmine

St. Robert Bellarmine (1542–1621) studied theology at the University of Padua and the University of Leuven. He was the first Jesuit to teach at the University of Leuven, and the subject of his course wasThomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. After seven years, he moved and taught theology at the new Rome College. In 1592, he was made rector of the Roman College, then examiner of bishops in 1598, and then cardinal in 1599. In 1602 he was made archbishop of Capua, and later served as archbishop of Montepulciano until his retirement. He was prominent in the Counter-Reformation. In 1930, he was canonized by Pope Pius XI. He is a Doctor of the Church.