Practice of Charles Borromeo
References to Charles Borromeo's reverent practice of reading Scripture with bare head and bended knee, and his saying that a bishop's garden is the Holy Bible.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Section One
— Borromeo's practice of reading Scripture reverently
"This is what St. Charles Borromeo was thinking when he used to read Sacred Scripture, as if they were the oracles of God, only with bare head, and bended knee, reverently reading."
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Saintly Examples of Scripture Study
— Borromeo quoted: a bishop's garden is the Holy Bible
"St. Charles Borromeo dwelt continually in Sacred Scripture as if in a paradise of delights, and used to say that a Bishop had no need of a garden, but that his garden was the Holy Bible."