Looking for the Context Surrounding This St. Robert Bellarmine Quote
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It comes from a 14 February 1614 letter St. Robert wrote to
A certain Benjamin Antony Carier, canon of Canterbury and chaplain in ordinary to King James I, who considered him to be the most learned theologian in England, [and who] studied the Controversies anxiously and carefully.
โJames Brodrick, Robert Bellarmine: Saint and Scholar (1961), pp. 87-88
Ibid. p. 89-90 contains an English translation of an excerpt of the letter.
The context is the persecutions Canon Carier had to endure in Anglican England. This follows immediately after what you quote:
โฆgenerously despising comfort, honour and, above all, royal favour, the unfailing source of such earthly prizes. If in your voluntary exile you have to endure sorrow and want for our Lord's sake, you will be blessed indeed, being made worthy not only to believe in Christ with your whole heart, but also to suffer for His Name. As in heaven nothing will be sweeter than to resemble him in his glory, so here on earth nothing is more to our advantage than to be like him in his Passion.
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