Baltimore Catechism
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A Catechism of Christian Doctrine, Prepared and Enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore, or simply the Baltimore Catechism, was the national Catholic catechism for children in the United S
Baltimore Catechism relief on the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore
Robert Bellarmine
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Robert Bellarmine was an Italian Jesuit and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was canonized a saint in 1930 and named Doctor of the Church, one of only 27 at the time. He was one of the most impor
Baltimore Catechism
…of the Third Council of Baltimore, or simply the Baltimore Catechism, was the national Catholic catechism for children in the United States, based on Robert Bellarmine's 1614 Small Catechism. The first such catechism written for Catholics in North America, it was the standard Catholic school text in the country from…
17th-century portrait of Robert Bellarmine, Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus
16th-century portrait of Saint Robert Bellarmine
Page of the short catechism of Bellarmine: Dottrina cristiana breve, 1752