©Denise christiaenssens o.f.s Première Série Janvier - Avril Montréal RR. PP. FRANCISCAINS© 964, DORCHESTEUR-OUEST. Nihil obstat: Fr. Philippus, LECOMPT, O.F.M. Censor Delegatus.Marianopoli, die 5â Juilii,1924s Nihil obstat: Fr. Theodoricus PARÉ, O.F.M. Censor Delegatus, die 8â Maii,1924s Imprimi potest: Fr.Joannes Joseph DEGUIRE, O.F.M.Commissarius Provincialis. Nihil obstat: Can.AEMILIUS CHARTIER . Censor liborumMarianopoli,die 1 - â Maii 1924 Imprimatur: X.Georgius,Arch.TARONENSIS, Admin.Apost. Marianopoli,die 10â Maiis 1924

It was of the souls of mercy and the works of their piety didn't miss. Happiness remains attaché to their race and a holy inheritance is assured to their children The Collection Pax And Bonumx Section Hagiographique. - Lives of the Saints and Blissful desTrois Orders Of Saint-François DECLARATION Children Of Saint-François, we protest to submit here to the Constitutions and apostolic decrees, so much urban VIII that of the other Sovereigns Pontifes

AvertissesmentSi in the course of this work, we give saint's title, of blessed, or of venerable to a character, we treat miraculous any fact, we don't hear in to warn anything the Saint's decisions Church Roman. We want to put in practice what prescribes us our rule in the following passage: "I promise respect and obedience the Lord Pope and to the church Roman...; always subject and prostrate to the feet of this same Saint steady Church in the Catholic faith... " (Rule of the FF.MM., chap.I and XII). The heirs of a big name, the descendants of a noble race like to contemplate the gallery of their forebears; and while admiring these expensive faces and venerated, they evoke the memory of these glorious characters gladly. To their memory, indeed, be connected all one past of bravery, merit and honor, that makes the glory of their descendants. Also, these last, they have to cSur to appear worthy of their fathers, while learning by their portraits, as to the school where they must draw the feeling of their nobility and to remember the obligations that she/it imposes. Us therefore, children of saint - François, who has a famous name and a glorious past, we will like to study the saint lign offed of our precursors; and while recalling us their lives, we won't omit to pull of it for ours of precious teachings and energetic stimulants. Our Tertiary, in particular, will be grateful to us to unwind under their eyes the noble examples of their brothers and the help in religion. They will like to make penetrate in their soul bracing l57;influence that their famous forebears exercised, of their living, on their contemporaries, and that must not stop with their departure for the celestial Jerusalem. More than ever, indeed, the souls of good will have need to be inspired by the mind that enlivened the life of the saints, to sanctify their own existence and to serve models also to the mates of their life. There is more, our Tertiary must understand practically that the third Order, to which they are incorporated, is more that a plain confraternity; that he/it is a life and a school of holiness for whoever impregnate itself of his/her/its mind and study himself to copy the saints and the saints that he/it produced. And that no one objects its inability. Without this set of lives, he/it is not a soul that recognizes, here and there, the same situation, the same difficulties, the same struggles, the same aspirations that his; and what our precursors made, in a middle, often more unfavorable to the holiness that ours, we can also make it, and none among us cannot plead an insurmountable impotence.If we have all same nature, we also have the same means of sanctification; to us to pray and to fight, as the saints made it that preceded us in life. But all Christian serious and reflexive will appreciate them also this book where is related the more prominent facts of a religious family that occupy a place of choice in the holy Church: "Hardly he/it exist, indeed, writes Léon XIII, a society of men that gave to the virtue so many rigid guards, to the Christian faith so much hero, to the Christ so many martyrs, to the sky so many citizens, and in which one counted so many men that illustrated and made progress the church and the civil society her - even, while cultivating these arts that give to those that there excels the superiority on all others." (Felecitatie bubble). To all these pages are offered therefore. The lives of these saints that fought here below, that now enjoy the reward of their fights and whose church implores the intercession, will be for all those that will contemplate them a fertile memorial: Ut Sint signum inter your. While reading them, the descendants of these heroes, them especially, will remember their duties; assisted of their examples, they won't let themselves infect by the ideas of the world, by his/her/its pumps, his/her/its honors, but worthy imitators of their ancestors, they will walk with more of ardor in the trails of the penitence and the humility, they will kiss with more of goodwill the obligations of their holy state, and they will spill before the Lord the sweet perfume of one holy life. (Numbers, X,38) Tirer of the flowers Franciscan vol.1 p.9-1

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January Contained it in this set Set 1 Flowers Franciscans Calendar according to the old book. J anuary 02 Blissful Bentivolio Of Profits, priest (1182-1232) Franciscan.. Blissful Gérard Cagnoli, lay brother (1266-1345) Franciscan * Triumph of Saint Name of Jesus January 04 Blissful Angèle Of Foligno, of the Third party - Order, widow, penitent and main of spiritual life (1248 - 1309) January 16 Saint Bérard, Pierre, Othons, priests, Adjuts and Accurses, f.con.o.f.m. first Franciscan martyrs (1129) January 19 Blissful Thomas Of Cori, priest (1655-1729) *.. Blissful Charles Of Sezze, convers, o.f.m. * Blissful Bernard Of Corleone, cnovers of the FF.Min.Capucinses (1607-1667) * January 28 Blissful Odoric, prêtre(1285-1331).. Blissful Roger Of Todi(+1337) priest *.. Blessed Aegis Of Laurenzona, convers (1443-1518) * January 29 Saint François Of Dirty, bishops and prince of Geneva, doctor of the church, January 30 Saint Hyacinth Of Mariscotti, virgin, tertiary régulier,(1585-1640) * January 31 Blissful Louise Albertoni (1474-1533) * Blissful Paule Cambara-Costa (1505), of the Third Order, Widows.

Set 1 - 02 Jan. 1188-1232

Blissful Bentivolio Of Profits priest (1188-1232)

So read ourselves to the chapter 42nd of the Fiorettis. Among these saints, let's greet to the beginning of the year the blissful Bentivolio. Son of Giraldo of Profits, rich gentleman of San Séverino, and of Dona Albasia; he/it spent his/its youth in the innocence and the piety. Touched then by the predication of a disciple of François saint, the Brother Paul of Spolète and attracted by his/her/its example, he/it gave up the expectations of the world, was going to find holy François and asked him to don the liveries of poverty. His/her/its sacrifice was by its family a source of blessings, because several followed its example: Two of his/her/its sSurs made themselves Clarisseses, two of his/her/its brothers and four of his/her/its nephews became minor Brothers.

Neat priest, burning to save the souls, Bentivolio became an untiring apostle; of the top of the chair as to the court of the penitence, he poured on the souls the ardors of his/her/its divin.Un love day that he preached to the people, a star appeared on its forehead, and illuminated all his/her/its person, God wanting to make thus stronger his/her/its servant's speech. Another extraordinary fact rewarded its charity; one had confided to his/her/its cares a leper and, having been obliged to change convent, it didn't want to abandon his/her/its patient. He/it charged it on his/her/its shoulders, started thus, as the dawn began to dawn, and according to the columnist's naive narration, it made the journey with such a speed, that an eagle could not have followed it.God's servant was also encouraged of celestial communications: one often lives it in ecstasy, and elevated to him - over of earth. The vicar of San Sévérino seeing it one day, surrounded of light, was some if hit, that he kissed the religious life in the order of Saint-François, and lived there saintly under the name of Brother Massé.Le Christmas day 1232 was the last of his/her/its terrestrial life. He/it was born at the sky in the birthday even of the Nativity of his/her/its Lord. His/her/its body rests currently in San-Sévérino, in the chapel of Notre-Dame of Lights. Pope Magpie IX confirmed the cult that was always returned to him. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s page 13à15 -

Set 1 - 02 Jan. 1266-1345

Blissful Gérad Cagnoli(1266-1345)

Gérard Cagnoli was born at Valencia in Italy toward the end of the XIIIe century, of noble and devout parents. Only son hardly aged of ten years, he/it lost his/its father. His/her/its mother remained widow, dragged the life laborious of the patients, he took care of it with assiduity and subsidiary piety during 14 years. After his/her/its death, he/it climbs the trails of the virtue quickly; having solved to say adieu in his/her/its native country, to give up the riches and the pleasures of the century, to reject all terrestrial alliance, to rise more freely toward God and the celestial things, he/it distributed to the paupers the paternal inheritance, and in poor pilgrim, visited the sanctuaries the more venerated of Italy. After several pilgrimages, he/it arrived in Sicily; there, to the foot of the Etna mount, he/it settles in a lone place, as in a place of shelter to think better of his/her/its eternal salute, and to lead a more penitent life there again, and all dedicated to God. Some years went by thus when he/it arrived an echo of the renown of which holy Louis, bishop of Toulouse and Minor Brother, filled the Christian world.Wanting to belong to an Order where decorated with flowers as beautiful virtues, he/it left his/its retirement and asked to enter to the convent of Randacium, close to Messina. There, submitted to his/her/its superior, he/it took to the humblest works. One tells than one day, in one solemn feast, as he/it was charged of the meal and that in spite of the advanced hour he/it was not again to work, one found it in prayers in the chapel. One sends it, in hurry, to the kitchen; however hardly there he/it is entered that a young man of a celestial beauty appears and help to all to prepare, and to say it never of the guests more delicious food were served.

A short time after, to the convent of Palermo, the superior confided to the Brother Gérard the load delicate of porter. There he/it made again radiate around him, on the religious and the secular, the devout influence of his/her/its words and his/her/its examples. During this period of his/her/its life, he/it was content with only one tunic, carried a rough cilice and walked always naked feet. Very little thing were sufficient to its food, his/her/its sleep was short and took it again it extended on boards. To tame his/her/its body and to submit it to the soul, he/it flogged it toughly.

Flaming of a supernatural charity, he/it often made strong to the cell of Louis saint. There, before the picture of the devout bishop, he/it was delighted in ecstasy or lost in his/her/its contemplation of the divine things, the resplendent face of a celestial clarity. To this time king Pierre reigned in Sicily; his/her/its wife Elisabeth, already mother of seven girls, was sorry not to have son that can inherit kingdom. God's servant, touched of compassion and divinely inspired, surrendered by the queen, comforted it and predicts to him that she/it would have a son, to whom one would give Louis' name soon. The event came to justify the prediction.

During the year 1345, Brother Gérard, then aged of 79 years, after having spent thirty-six years in religion, was reached by the illness that had to carry away it; he/it had to sustain rough fights that delivered to him the enemy of the human kind and to fight against a lot of temptations of which he/it was attacked; he/it left winner of it. The Blissful Virgin appeared to him to comfort it. She/it addressed him of soft words and announced to him that the hour of his/her/its death was near. One was to Friday, the following Sunday, December 29, Brother Gérard left, in a deep peace, this earth of exile for the celestial homeland. The 13 but 1908, Magpie X confirmed this Blessed's cult. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1.ps. 15 à18

Set 1 -. 2 Jan. +-1530
Triumph of Jesus' Saint Name

The propagation of the devotion to Jesus' Saint Name is a glory of the Franciscan order. Saint François of foundation in was an ardent promoter and his/her/its sons imitated his/her/its devotion, propagated it, sometimes defended it against the attacks of which she/it was the object, and made it finally triumph so gloriously that in 1530, the feast of" triumph of "Jesus' Saint Name was established in the seraphic order, and later, in 1721, the feast of Jesus' Saint Name was celebrated in the universal church. If a friend's name is pleasant to hear and to pronounce, it is necessary to wonder holy François so, l57;amant passionate of the Christ, felt the power and the kindness of the Name consecrated of this divine Friend.

"When Jesus' name came then on his/her/its lips, told us the seraphic Doctor, his/her/its voice altered itself, and it could not pass besides; one had said that it had heard an interior music of which it would have liked to recapture the notes. "--"He/it made the daily topic of his/her/its conferences of it, and the Brothers knew by experience how much this name was soft and sweet in the conversations of the holy man, what love and what benignity it penetrated his/its discours70;

Of the father's cSur, the love of Jesus' name will descend mildly in son's cSur that will work to return this popular devotion with the help of the prodigies that they will make him produce. One of the first echoes comes of plugs it even of Bonaventure saint that wrote an opuscule: Of Laude melliflui Nominis Jesus: Of the glorification of Jesus' very soft Name. But it was necessary to wait until the beginning of the XV for century so that the devotion took a bigger flight and qu57;elle spilled on the populations like a beneficent stream, and, it is in Bernardin saint of Siena that had to come back honor of in to be the big propagator.

Reformer of the peoples and cloisters, Bernardin of Siena had not counted on the human resources, but as the Prince of the apostles, he used the Name of Jesus of Nazareth, he said, elevated above all name; triumphal name, joy of the angels, rejoicing of just, fright of the hell, of it rests you all hope of forgiveness, grace and glory; very soft Name, of you come us the remission of the sins and the renewal of the vie;vous fill our souls of divine delights, you move away the vain thoughts of it; gracious Name, by you the depth of the miracles is revealed to our looks, our cSurs ignites of the celestial love, they become strong in the fights and escape all péril70; "Wanting to translate the feelings of his/her/its soul outside, it advised his/its listeners to write down on the public monuments this blessed name. He/it had adopted a monogram formed of the three J.H.S letters. what meant: Jesus Hominum Salvator Jesus Sauveur of the Men. He/it made it paint on small shelves, surrounded with one beaming crown, invited his/her/its listeners to procure itself/themselves them, to carry them on them, as himself made it and to prostrate before this devout picture while returning glory to the Christ Jésus. But the test was going to come. His/her/its goodwill to attack the mistake, to stop the efforts of some innovative, and to warn the crowds against the teachings of those that wanted to seduce them, created him some enemies.

Bernardin, of which one could not attack life all saint, lives itself attacked in his/her/its doctrine; one accused it of heresy by Pope Martin V because of the manner of which he/it propagated the cult of Jesus' name. He/it was to fear, one said, that the populations don't see in the shelf a sort of amulet and were not exposed to offer their worships to the letters of Jesus' name and no to the Savior himself. The Pope, judging the serious facts, took the complaints in consideration and mentioned suddenly before him the humble Franciscan, that he had not had until then the opportunity to know, absorbed that he was by important preoccupations.

While the writings and the saint's sermons were submitted to the exam, one forbids him to leave ROME, to GO BACK UP IN CHAIR AND to EXPOSE HIS/HER/ITS SHELVES; IN TRUE SON OF The obedience, Bernardin submitted without trouble nor impatience. However the Miners of the observance, touched of the danger that their famous Brother ran, deputized several of theirs in Rome, to help it. To the number of these auxiliaries holy Jean of Capistran was, the biggest of his/her/its disciples. To the doors of the city, probably ignoring the defense of the relative Pope in the name of Jesus, he/it makes carry the shelves in manner of standard, advance then through the streets, in the middle of a crowd that enlarges of instant in instant, and that, driven by his/her/its attitude, sing with him the praises of the divine Name, He/it arrives thus to Vatican; The Pope touched of the faith of this good people, and of the noble devotion of Brother Jean of Capistran, receives it with the favor and allows it to take the floor in the debate.

On the fixed day, the accusers expose their grievances to the Sovereign Pontiff. Their attack is subtle and passionate. Bernardin and Jean of Capistran answer, reverse all objections victoriously, and reduce to nothing, the arguments of their adversaries. Then the Sovereign Pontiff rises and be pronounced in favor of Bernardin; he exhorts it to pursue his/her/its apostolate so fertile, to teach to the peoples the respect and the love of Jesus' Name, to offer finally without fear, to the looks of all, the picture of this name blessed,. He/it orders, besides, in order to return the more vivid preparation, that the solemn prayers and a big processions take place, with the contest of the whole clergy, in honor of Jesus' Name, whose letters are, from then on, everywhere written on the doors of the churches and houses. Martin V died and was replaced by Eugene IV. Soon the enemies of Bernardin raised the head and restarted the attacks, this time without the knowledge of the Pope. Some pursuits learned and the judgment was confided to Casanova's cardinal Jean; but educated of these secret tracks by a special ambassador sent by the Siennoises, Eugene IV interposed its authority by a bubble of January 7, 1432, and stopped the pursuits. It was there the definitive triumph to Jesus' adorable Name. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 18 -

Set-l - 04 Jan.1248-1309s

Blissful Angèle Of Foligno, of the Third party - Order,
widow, penitent and main of spiritual life (1248 - 1309)

Blissful Angèle Of Foligno, of the Third party - Order, widow,
penitent and main of spiritual life (1248 - 1309)
To the time where the city of Cortone admired the penitent and blazing life of love of God of Marguerite saint, the one of Foligno contemplated the same marvels of the grace in a less famous soul, the one of the blissful Angèle. These two big saints will be forever of glory of the seraphic order at the same time as of the examples of the stupendous mercy of the celestial Father for the sinners who come back to him. It is the blissful Angèle herself that dictated to his/her/its confessor, the Father Arnaud, what we know his/her/its life.

Born in a rich family, bride and surrounded of children, she/it made guilty of bass tones sins, that, she/it says, covered it with shame, what makes suppose that she/it was unfaithful to the conjugal faith. Agitated of remorse, she/it tried to convert, but didn't have courage to make the confession of his/her/its sad life in the court of the penitence and added to his/her/its past mistakes the one of a sacrilegious confession and an unworthy communion; to the despair she/it addressed François saint then, nearly of foundation, died since about fifty years and that was nearly his/her/its compatriot (Foligno is only to three miles of foundation). asking him to make meet him the confessor that it was necessary and to that she/it could speak to unload his/her/its soul.

The saint appeared to him the night and tells to him: "My sSur, if you had called myself earlier, I would already have come to your help ", and inspired him the thought to go to the church of Saint-Félicien, what she/it made since the morning. A Minor Brother preached in the aforesaid church, and it is his that she addressed, the finished sermon. "I made, she/it says, the confession of my mistakes, and I received the absolution of it, but I didn't feel some of love; only the bitterness, the shame and the pain crushed me; emptiness of consolation, and full of sadness, I persevered nevertheless in the penitence and endeavored to satisfy the divine justice. "God who wanted it for him only, helped it to detach itself/themselves of all: in very a short time, the death removed him his/her/its mother, his/her/its husband and his/her/its children; it stripped herself/itself of his/her/its riches that it distributed to the poor people, then it made the pilgrimage of Rome and foundation to ask Pierre saint and François saint for the grace of a complete detachment.

Arrived close to this last city, she/it heard in her/its soul a voice that told to him: "you are going to ask my servant François to get his/her/its intercession; he/it liked me a lot and I made a lot of it him, but if other people liked me more than him, I would make again more in them. "And the same divine voice complained about the rarity of the true supporters, of those that take their life in agreement with their faith. "I like, she/it moaned, of an immense love, the soul that likes me without lie, and if I met in a soul a love perfects, she/it would receive me again of bigger graces, that the saints of the times passed by the means of which I made the prodigies that one now meets. However has the society that the very high God, in his/her/its wisdom, gave well in this world to his/her/its Son - beloved; first poverty to perfect, continual; absolute; then the opprobrium perfects, continual, absolute; finally, the perfect, continual, absolute pain. Such was the society that the Christ chooses on the earth to show us what it is necessary to like, to choose and to carry until the death. As man, it is by this road that he/it went up to the sky; such is the road of the soul toward God, and there is not another right way. It is appropriate and good that the road chosen by the head is the road chosen by the members, and that the society elected by the head is elected by the members. It is this will of opprobrium and pain that she/it bequeathed, while recommending to them, the mutual charity to all souls that she/it had directed; after having glimpsed a last time the intimate life of the glorious Trinidad she/it whispered then; "Oh! All creature is at fault, the intelligence of the angels is not sufficient pas70; to understand."

She/it put back his/her/its soul and his/her/its mind then between the hands of the celestial Father and received God this answer: What was printed during your life on your cSur, it is impossible that you don't possess it in your death. Then smoothly, she/it returned his/her/its soul to the Creator; it was January 3 of the year of the Lord 1309, one sang the first vespers of the octave of the Innocent Saints and the day went finir70; The church to set his/her/its feast the 4 janvier.Tiré of the Book The Flowers Franciscans Flight. 1 page 23 to the page31
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Then, in accordance with what I had just learned, I endeavored to spread before God all miseries of my soul and my body, and I shouted: "Oh Lord, my God, who holds in your hands my eternal recovery, since you promised to heal me so only I spread before your eyes my wounds, Lord, since I am the very infirmity; since there am not in me an atom that is an infection and a rot, of the bottom of my abyss, I spread one by one before your eyes my miseries, and all sins of all my members, and all wounds of my soul, and all wounds of my body, then, I counted, I designated every misery, and I say: Merciful Lord, who holds in your hands my recovery, look at my head; I covered it a thousand times with the badges of the pride; j57;ai given to my hair, while twisting them, of the shapes against nature and, saying it, I don't say all. Lord, to look at my miserable eyes, full of impurity and injected of desire, etc." I continued to accuse each of my members and to tell their miserable history. Jesus listened to all with a big patience, and answered with a big joy. He/it showed for every thing the remedy in his/her/its hand and the order that governed the redemption, and I live his/her/its immense compassion for my soul and he/it said" My daughter, don't fear despairs. When you would be infected of all putrefactions and dead of all deaths, I am powerful to heal you, if you want to apply on your soul and on your body what I will give to you.

You retailed me the spiritual infirmities of the head for a long time: you moaned to the bottom of me. The attempts that you committed, in your adornments, by the colors against nature that you gave to your cheeks and the torsions against nature that you gave to your hair, the whole ashamed pride, all your pride, all the vain glory with which you appeared before the men and against God, all these miseries for which he/it seems you that an eternal shame expects in hell, in the place of the deepest lake, all it is expiated; I satisfied, I carried your penitence, I suffered horribly.

For all these paintings, and these ointments that dishonored your head, mine was pulled by the beard, stripped of hair, pierced of thorn, struck with reed, gory, ridiculed, despised until the coronation! " "You combed the cheeks to show them to unhappy men and to beg their favors; are calm; my face has been covered by the spits of cesmisérables it has been distorted and swollen of their bellows; it has been hidden under an ashamed veil. You t57;es served of your eyes to watch in vain, to look at that that overnight, to rejoice you against God; but mine have been veiled, they have first been drowned in my tears, and in my blood then. The blood that sank my head blinded them. "

"For the crimes of your ears, that one heard the useless and the bad, and that took pleasure in the harmful speech, I made the terrible penitence that made penetrate in me an abundant and immense sadness. I heard the false accusations, the disparaging words, the abuses, the maledictions, the mockeries, the laughters, the blasphemies, the sentence of death carried by the iniquitous judge, and my mother's tears! I heard his/her/its compassion. You knew the pleasures of the greed, and you even abused the things that one drinks; but I had the mouth dried by the hunger the thirst and the fasting. One presented me the gall and vinegar. You slandered, you calumniated, you mocked, you blasphemed, you lied, and lied until the perjury. It is not all. You made something else; but I kept the silence before the judges and the perjurers, and my enclosed lips didn't excuse me. but I always announced the truth, and asked God of all my cSur for my executioners. "

"Your smell is not pure; you remember some pleasures due to some perfumes; But I felt the pestilential odor of the spits; I supported them on my face, on my eyes, on my nostrils. "
"Your neck was agitated by the movements of the anger and the concupiscence, and of the pride; remember you that it stood against God. But mine has been hit and has been bruised by the bellows. For the sins of your shoulders, mine carried the cross. For the sins of your hands and your arms, that made that that you know well, my hands have been pierced of big nails, fixed to wood, and I was suspended by them, and they supported my body. For the sins of your cSur where are unleashed themselves the hate, the desire and the sadness, of your cSur possessed by the concupiscence and by the bad love, mine has been pierced of a spear stroke, and it is of my injury that your remedy sank, water to extinguish the bad fire, blood for the redemption of the angers and the redemption of the sadness. For the sins of your feet, for the useless dances, for their lustful walks, for their vain shoppings, mine, that one could only have attached, have been pierced and nailed to the cross. Instead of your up-to-date shoes, elegantly shaped, they have been covered with blood; blood came out of their injuries, the body fell on them. ""

For the sins of all your body, for all your sensuality in the eve and in the sleep, I have been nailed to the cross, struck horribly, tugged like a skin, and extended on the cross. I have been wet of the feet to the head by the sweat of blood, that flowed until earth; I have been tightened very strongly very hard against wood, suffering of atrocious tortures, crying, sighing, crying, moaning, and I died in my moan, killed by tigers! For the redemption of your vain adornments, things carried in goal, I was naked on the cross. These poor persons argued my dress and my clothes; they played them under my eyes. Naked as I came better out of the Virgin's breast, delivered to air, to the cold weather, to wind, to the look of the men and women, to the top of a cross, to be seen, better ridiculed, better dishonored, I have been spread and spread. " "For your badly acquired riches, that you kept or spent, I carried poverty, without palace, without house, without shelter to be born nor to live, nor to die, and I would not have had a sepulcher, and I would have been delivered to the dogs and the birds of prey, if someone for mercy's sake for my big misery, had not given me place in a sepulcher to him. I spent for the sinners my blood and my life, I didn't keep anything for me. Poverty resulted from me company in life and in the death. "

The Christ spoke thus, and because my soul had received the gusto of the sins of the body, I live the pains of all nature carried by the Christ's soul, I live them in their diversity and in their horror. I live his/her/its soul tortured by the passion of his/her/its body, by his/her/its mother's pain, by our refusal to adore, by our refusal to sympathize,: And he/it added: " You won't find sin nor nor illness of the soul, of which I didn't carry the pain and offered the remedy. Because of the immense pains that your miserable souls had to undergo in hell, I wanted to be tortured fully and completely. Don't be distressed therefore; but hold me company in the pain, in the opprobrium and in poverty. "Marie Madeleine was sick, she made what I said and wanted his/her/its delivery, and was delivered of all, because she had wanted it. The one that would like will be delivered as her."

The Christ added: "When my sons, abandoning my kingdom, made themselves children of the devil, if they come back to the Father, the Father has a big joy and makes them feel the superior gusto, The Father has killed such joy, that he gives to them and a certain gusto that he doesn't give to the faithful virgins. It comes of the immense love that he/it has for them, and of the immense mercy that the view of their misery excites. It comes again of what the sinner, before the majesty and the clemency of the Lord, recognizes himself/itself worthy of the hell, It is why bigger the man will have been in the sin, bigger he will also be in the other abyss." And he/it added: "The man who wants to find the grace always must, either in joy, either in the sadness, to hold my immobile wood cross owing his/her/its eyes". & copy The ways of the delivery. Saint Angèle of Foligno Titre of the book Visions and instruction hp. 35 p.93-98 & Christiana copyÉdition Steinam rhein/suisse

Set 1 16 Jan.+s - 1229

ST. Bérard, Pierre, Othon, priests,; Adjut and Accurse, brothers convers of the Minor Brothers, Ier Martyrs (1229)

The cSur of the seraphic François of foundation burned the desire to convert the infidels and his/her/its Soul was thirsty of the martyr, also it transmitted these feelings to his/her/its first disciples. Five among them were sent by him to preach the gospel to Mahomet's spectators; it was the first children of the Franciscan family who gave to the Christ the testimony of their blood. As the apostles, they left for their holy mission to feet without provision, crossed Spain and arrived then in Seville fundamental of the Moorish kings. There, they began to preach the Christian truth to the collected people; but they were insulted very quickly and were mistreated; ducts in presence of the Moslem prince, this one tried to impose them silence, but nor the promises nor the threats cannot overcome the audacious missionary; one condemned them, even to death they were loosened then and embarked for Morocco; it was for them a new field of action, they won Marrakech, capital of empire, and, on the public places continued to preach Jesus - Christ, solely anxious to make know it, and to get the grace of the martyrdom. One hunts them of the city, they come back; then, one throws them in jail where they remain twenty private days of food. But as the drought and illnesses of all kinds fall on the country, the people believed to see in it a sign of the Sky and asked for the delivery of the missionaries. The sultan agreed there and made them drive in Portugal; but during the journey, the brothers, deceiving the vigilance of their guards comes back to Marrakech where they restart to preach, then one flogs them repeatedly and until their innards are unveiled; one rolls them on pieces of glass, and of the fragments of pots, one pours on their wounds of vinegar and the boiling coal, and the martyrs in the middle of their torments, as previously the Apostles, bless the Lord, who judges them worthy to suffer for his/her/its Name. The unfaithful prince makes them appear finally in his/her/its presence, and tried to seduce them by the decoy of the pleasures, the riches, and honors, then furious to see itself/themselves loser, he seizes himself a scimitar and splits the head of the courageous athletes.

Learning their glorious death, holy François exclaimed elated: "Ah! indeed, I can now say that I have at least five true minor Brothers in my family", The bodies of the martyrs of Morocco were transported in Portugal and set down in Saint's Church - Cross in Coïmbre, there a young canon smelled like its cSur to scorch itself/themselves of ardor and wanting to imitate life and the death of those of which it venerated the relics, asked to don the dress of François saint in Saint's convent - Antoine of Olivarez. He/it had to become the most popular saint of the Franciscan order, the friend and the nutrient of the poor people, the benefactor of the Christian people; as blood and Étienne's prayer had won Paul to the Lord, the first martyrs of Morocco won Antoine of Padua to the seraphic family. Since then, the earth of Morocco always rebel to the Christ's calls, didn't stop being evangelized by Portuguese, Spanish and French Franciscans that, until our days, didn't stop watering it of their blood. To pull from the Set The Flowers Franciscan vol.1 p, 31,

Set-l 19 Jan. 1655-1729

Blissful Thomas of Cori Priest (1665-1729)

Life already made of simplicity, of ingenuousness, of innocence; intense interior life, intimate union life with God; ardent goodwill for the salute of the souls, such are the characteristic notes of the holiness of the Blissful Thomas of Cori.

Of poor family, he/it was first a shepherd and since the childhood in the middle of his/her/its restful herd, in the solitude of the Roman companion, his/her/its soul seemed to go up naturally toward God; his/her/its innocence and his/her/its piety were as already then, one called it: "the small saint ". Entered at the Minor Brothers, his/her/its race toward the ideal never slows down and since the beginning, it was a model of perfection for his/her/its brothers. After his/her/its ordination to the priesthood, he/it thought of the faraway missions of China, but God's will decided some otherwise; it gets to retire in the convent of Récollection of Civitella then; it is there, that it spent his/its life in the penitence, the contemplation and the exercise of the apostolic ministry. He/it evangelized indeed during more of twenty years a part of the Roman country and particularly the mountains of Subiaco, of which he/it was called the apostle because of the numerous conversions that he/it operated of it. Nothing was capable to stop his/her/its goodwill, when it was about bringing back some souls to God, nor the difficulty of the paths, nor the cold weather, rain, or snow nor the sharp pains, produced by his/her/its infirmities.

His/her/its teachings were simple but touching and went right to the cSur of the humble to which he/it addressed. Some very brigands came to hear it, and converts him a big number of it. Often, he/it read in the cSurs, recalled the forgotten mistakes, put in guard against the traps and the ambushes of the demon, and toward the end of his/her/its life, it is of all parts that one came to consult it or to ask to be reconciled by him with God. In spite of the importunities of the crowds, he/it stayed always gracious, forgetting to take his/her/its food and passer-by the big part of his/her/its days and his/her/its nights to hear the confessions of the poor sinners. This is how he/it passed, in the world, without his/her/its soul was soiled, because his/her/its soul living in God. He/it died le11 January 1729 and Pope Magpie VI beatified it August 18, 1786. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2. p. 35-36

Serial 19 Jan. 1607-1667

Blissful Charles Of Sezze, convers,o.f.m. (1655-1729)
As the Blissful Thomas, Charles was born of a family of plowmen in Sezze, in Italy. It is following a vSu makes during a serious illness, that he/it kissed the religion of the Minor Brothers. He/it had for it of big difficulties to defeat on behalf of his/her/its parents of which he/it was the hope. He/it had during all his/her/its life the martyr's big desire, the illness stopped it from going in Indies; It lived in Rome.

Humble Brother convers, and man without letters. "What of more admirable has, says Léon XIII, in the decree of his/her/its beatification, that is that he/it excited admiration of the men the more doctes, by his/her/its exhibitions of the most difficult theology questions and by the composition of books quite filled of the Christian science. "Also, not only people of populates it even the most famous and noble characters, the cardinals and Clement IX himself, our predecessor of happy memory, used his/her/its advice. Nevertheless God's servant didn't boast; he understood that he didn't have to anything to assign to himself, man without talents and without study, but that all these grants had to be returned to the grace of The one that hides from the sages and the prudent of this world the mysteries of his/her/its divine Wisdom, and reveals them to the small; more therefore he was big in the opinion of the men, and more he thought himself humbly. "

When he/it received the order to write, he/it got ready of it by the prayer, recommending itself/themselves to the holy king David, to the apostle holy Paul, and to Theresa saint. One day that he/it addressed the Virgin of the Carmel, he/it heard a voice to tell to him: "Go, don't fear anything: The one that illuminated me by his/her/its grace, will also give you to you his/her/its light. "To the grant of innate science, the Lord added others. One day, during the Mass, a ray luminous starter of the holy host, came to hit it to the cSur, letting in his/her/its flesh the print consecrated of a nail of the Passion, and, after his/her/its death, instead this print, he/it formed himself/itself in the same way an excrescence of flesh shape, that was held for miraculous by thirteen physicians of the city.

One month before his/her/its death, having gone to pay a visit to the pope Clément IX, then close to his/her/its end: & laquo We will meet again, tells to him him while leaving it, to the feast of l57;Épiphanie & raquo, and indeed, the holy Brother returned that day his/her/its soul to God, while announcing qu57;à this same instant, Clement IX left the Purgatory and entered in the celestial glory. The Pope Léon XIII beatified God's servant October 1st, 1881.Tirer of the Franciscan Flowers, Vol2. p. 36-38

Blissful Bernard Of Corleone, convers FRANC. Min.Capucin. (1607-1667)

Bernard, born in Sicily, was first a soldier and led the large life of the camps. As he/it had the ardent character of the men of his/her/its race, he/it wounded one day fatally, in one brawl, one of his/her/its comrade-in-arms; touched then by the grace, him résolut to be going to expiate his/her/its mistakes in the rigors of the penitence, and donned the liveries of François saint, among the Capuchins of his/her/its native city. One lives it to turn from then on against him - even the violence of his/her/its temperament, and to revenge on his/her/its body by frightening steepings, the rights of the divine justice, the austerities of the rule not being sufficient to his/her/its devotion, he/it reduced his/its sleep at three o'clock per night, and again, took it him extended on the floor of his/her/its cell; his/her/its fastings were stern and multiplied, and this is how he/it not only got God's forgiveness, but also the favor of extraordinary graces. He/it was raised to the most sublime heights of the contemplation, favored of the grants of miracles, of prophecy, of penetration of the cSurs. Of an anger vase, Notre-Seigneur made of it a vase of election, revealing to the sinners the uncommunicative treasures of love once again in his/her/its divine CSur. Thirty-five years of this life mortified were worth to this penitent truth to be judged worthy to take place in the assembly of the Blesseds. To pull the Franciscan Flowers, Flight. 2. p, 38-39,

 

Set 1 - 28 Jan. 1285-1331
Blissful Odoric

Seventeen years of apostolic worksin the most remote countries, the conversion of more than twenty thousand infidels; has the Suvre of the Blissful Odoric for the salute of the souls and for God's glory. We only have few details on his/her/its childhood; he/it donned the dress of François saint in the convent of Udine, then fundamental of the province of the Frioul, in Veneto, where he/it was born. As soon as he/it had understood that God called it to the apostolate, he started evangelizing his/her/its homeland and converts a multitude of sinners thus; but his/her/its goodwill carried it toward the regions where it could find more sufferings and perils.

Sent in Orient, he/it embarks to Venice, pass in Constantinople, browses the big Armenia, Persia, the Tartarie, sowing the evangelical speech everywhere and confirming it by prodigies. He/it takes the path of the Indies that he/it visits in whole then, then pass in China and in Tibet, country until then unknown of the men of the west; finally, as he/it brought in Europe, to recruit evangelical workers, God in revealed to him that the moment had come for it to be going to collect at the sky the fruit of his/her/its works.

One obliged it to dictate the narration of his/her/its apostolic journeys; but the humility of this untiring man hid from us his/her/its sufferings and his/her/its tribulations of every day. One can make itself however an idea of that that he/it had to suffer, of the dangers that he/it ran, of the deprivations that he/it had to endure in his/her/its shoppings has shortcoming these immense regions; the most often, he/it finds to sustain itself/themselves that of the fruits and roots; of other times, committed in deserts, he/it spends several days deprived of all food; the night he/it takes his/its rest to the foot of a tree, on the naked earth, exposed to all inclemencies and the tooth of the wild beasts.Once he/it is seized by the unfaithful and set to the torture; his/her/its members are dislocated, his/her/its veins break themselves and blood flows in abundance; but far from weakening, Christ's confessor is happy to suffer for his/her/its God and ready to sacrifice him his/her/its life so painfully employee. Astonished of his/her/its courage, and seize a religious fright, the barbarians return him the liberty as to a man some that there is something divine. These unfaithful regions, particularly Tibet, were infested by the bad minds, but God gave him such a power against these infernal legions, that one put them as easily that one in flight hunts a dog of a house, also brought to him one the possessed to a distance of more than ten days. The B. Odoric died in Udine at the age of forty-six years; his/her/its body is preserved of the corruption. The Catholic Chinese of Peking dedicated him an altar in their cathedral as to the first apostle of their city and their country, and in 1881, his/her/its native city of Pordenone raised him a statue as to the most famous of his/her/its children. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1 p.39 to 42

His/her/its education and his/her/its instruction were very tidy; during his/her/its stay in Paris where he/it completed his/its studies and although very devout, he/it was attacked by a long and terrifying temptation of despair. He/it was only healed some to the feet of a statue of the Saint-Virgin in the church of Our - Lady of Sandstone: "Of the less, he/it had said to God's Mother, make that I like you, you and your Son, during this terrestrial life, if I must not cherish you in the eternal life! ". He/it made the perpetual chastity vSu then, promised to recite every day the rosary of six dozens and the temptation disappeared forever.

Received, in Padua, doctor in one and the other right, having renewed in Lorette the vow that him before fact in Paris and refused a brilliant situation to the Senate of Savoie, he/it entered into the cléricature. Neat priest and named provost of the church of Geneva, he/it fills if well his/her/its load that his/her/its bishop Granier confided him the task to work by the predication, to the conversion of the Calvinist duChablais and other places neighboring of Geneva. In this ministry, he/it had to endure the roughest tribulations on behalf of the heretics who pursued it by the calumny, raised him number of ambushes, and looked for to give him the death, but so many perils and fights had its unshakable constancy taken out again only. Assisted of God's help, one returns that he/it brought back to the faith Catholic 72,000 heretics, among which several were distinguished by their nobility and their science. After the death of Granier, that had chosen it for coadjutor, he/it was dedicated bishop December 8, 1603, in the church of Thorens where he/it had received the baptism. As soon as he/it had received the unction of the Pontiffs, his/her/its holiness radiated everywhere; flaming of goodwill for the ecclesiastical discipline, of love for the peace, of mercy towards the poor people, and of perfection desire, it especially shone, him whose character was naturally violent, by an invincible sweetness. He/it illuminated the church by writings full of a celestial doctrine, in which he/it teaches a sure and easy path to happen to perfection Christian.

The day of Midsummer's Day the evangelist, December 27, 1622, he/it celebrated the Mass in Lyons, and as he/it returned from France to Annecy he/it was reached by an illness of which he/it died the following day; he/it was only aged of 55 years. His/her/its body, elated in Annecy, was buried honorably in the church of the religious Visitandineses. Many miracles immediately followed his/her/its blessed death and the Pope Alexandre V11 having noted them duly according to the rules, put it to the number of the saints, while assigning for feast the 29ième day of January. (January 24 in the year 2000 The Sovereign Pontiff Magpie IX, of the opinion of the Sacred Community of the Rituals, declared it Doctor of the church.

To the well-being, to the luxury, to the vanities, followed the more or less continual fastings, the skinny meals made of bitter herbs, the cilice, the long and bloody disciplines, the faggot of twining stems for layer and the stone for pillow, she/it had wanted to enjoy all; all will help it to expiate: the nettles, the melted wax, fire, snow; one will see it to the cSur of the winter entering in the garden of the monastery and to hold the feet a long time nearly in water frozen.

To the outside steepings the interior pains were added; droughts, aridities, desolations, she/it endured all with a heroic resignation and without stopping taking to the prayer; beautiful lesson for the people who make to consist the piety and the devotion in the sensitive consolations. "The sweets and the aridities can be good they said, but in my opinion, one testifies from more love to Jesus when one serves it without sensitive taste and without sweetness. Oh! she/it "said again, I have a taste decided for the despised people, stripped of them - same, and that don't have sweets, nor pities. The Cross, the Cross! to suffer! to suffer! And to persevere strongly without consolations, there is the real mark of God's mind. "

His/her/its love of the Lord inspired him a charity without boundary-marks for the neighbor, especially for the sinners and the patients: "Oh my God, she/it exclaimed, that then me to browse the streets and the public places! "I would shout all my strengths: --He is possible that one is insane to the point to underestimate that this world is only nothing! Oh my God, unknown God! he/it is possible that the men have more esteem for the pestilential mud of this earth that for you, true treasure and only truth although they offend while damning itself/themselves for the eternity. "

A feature will be sufficient to show how far went his/her/its charity towards the poor wretches: he/it was of use in the Mariscotti house to make celebrate some Mass for the family's member, immediately after his/her/its death; however our saint asked her brother to give him the money that he had to use to this effect and for herself after his/her/its death declaring to him that to help the patients and the poor people she granted to be deprived of the help of these Mass and to endure the pains of the purgatory.

His/her/its love for the eucharistie was ardent; one must him the institution of the forty hours that it got to establish in Viterbe and of which the devout convenient spilled then in the whole church; it died January 30, 1640; his/her/its life offers a striking example of the struggle of the nature and the grace and the perfect triumph of God's love. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan vol.1. p.51 to 53

Set 1 - 31 Jan.1474-1533s
Blissful Louise Albertoni (1474 - 1533) o.f.s.

February February 01 Blissful Eustochium, clarisse (1430-1491)... * Blissful Viridiane,tertiare (1182-1242). Virgin * February 03 Blissful Mathieu, bishop of Girgenti, minor Brother (+1451) * February 04 Saint Joseph Of Leonissa, priest Capucin(1556-1612) * February 05 Saints Pierre-Baptist, Martin of the ascension, François Blanco, priests, Philippe Of Jesus, clerk, François Of Siant-Michel and Gonzalve Garcia, Brothers convers, o.f.m.; and 17 tertiary Brothers, martyrs in Japan (1597) February 05 Saint François of Méako celebrates Japanese, tertiary physician and martyr February 07 Blissful Rizzier, priest (+1226).. Blessed Aegis-Marie(1729 1812) and Antoine Of Stoncone(1381-1461), Brothers o.f.m convers. * February 13 Blissful Jean Of Triora, priest o.f.m. Martyrs (1760-1816) February 14 Blissful Jeanne Of are Worth, queen of France, widow, tertiary; founding of the royal order of the Annonciade (1464-1505) February 15 Blissful André Of Segni, priest o.f.m. *....Transfer of the relics of Antoine saint Of Padua (1350) * February 16 Blissful Philippa Of Maréri, virgin, clarisse (+1236) * February 19 Saint Conrad Of Pleasure, hermit, o.f.s. (1290-1351) * February 20 Blissful Pierre Of Tréja, priest o.f.m. (1304) * February 22 Saint Marguerite Of Cortone, penitent, o.f.s. (1247-1297) February 22 Blissful Sebastian Of Appartio, brother o.f.m convers. (1502-1600) * February 26 Blissful Isabelle Of France, virgin, Clarisse (1225-1270) * February 28 Blissful Antoinette Of Florence, widow, Clarisse (1401-1472) *

It was at the time the big schism of west, two popes argued the Sovereign Pontificate and it was difficult to know what was the legitimate, because there were some saints in the two parties; but the church of God torn suffered, the discipline was loosened, the Christian mSurs threatened to disappear and the saints had never been more necessary In this time of God calamities gave to his/her/its people the big Bernardin saint of Siena to which attached itself the Blissful Mathieu, born in Girgenti, in Sicily, attracted by the oratory of the apostle siennois, by his/her/its holiness and burning as it of goodwill for the souls; it became the mate and the friend of it. To his/her/its continuation, he/it browsed Italy and Sicily, the standard of Jesus' holy Name to the hand, preaching to the clergy simoniaque, to the impious people, converting the thousands of sinners and resuscitating the Christian mind in the foules.Ses compatriots, proud of his/her/its reputation and his/her/its renown of holiness, asked for it the Pope for bishop; to their prayer and to the one of Alphonse Ier, king of Aragon, Eugene IV ordered him to submit has l' 0rdre of God; he was consecrated bishop of Girgenti therefore in the year 1442. From that moment, his/her/its life was only a long continuation of tests. Having undertaken to reform the abuses and to re-establish the good order in his/her/its diocese, he/it was calumniated odiously by the Pope by the unhappy, and obligated to go to Rome to justify itself/themselves of it, he/it didn't have a difficulty making recognize his/her/its innocence besides. But, upon his/her/its return, his/her/its enemies didn't stop causing him of the obstacles and to persecute it by all sorts of means and our saint, no by disgust or by fear of work, but by humility, persuaded itself that it was incapable to govern his/her/its Church and asked the Pope to go in the obscurity of his/her/its first life; after a lot of processes, the Pontiff finally agreed to his/her/its retirement and he took, happy, the path of his/her/its dear convent. But there, a new test, the hardest of his/her/its life, waited for it; to his/her/its arrival, the Superior, warned against him, welcomed it while telling to him: "After having accepted by ambition a bishopric that you didn't know how to govern, you come to disturb our tranquillity now. Hey well! go elsewhere. The cSur bruised, the humble prelate retired then at the Conventual where he had started in the religious life. It was only later, after having known the truth, that the Superior made him some apologies and returned him his/her/its place years the famille.Il passed the last years of his/her/its life in the solitude, the prayer and the practice of the most beautiful virtues. After his/her/its death, a prodigy showed his holiness at the same time as his/her/its love for the eucharistie; as one transported his/her/its body in the church to bury it, one lives it to stand up, to turn of the side of the Saint-Sacrament, to join the hands and to incline the head. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s p.63-65Série -1 - 04 Févs. 1556-1612

The name of this flower is: Datura.jpgSaint Joseph Of Leonissa, priest capuchin (15565-1612) This saint had before God deserves it of the martyrs. Sent to Constantinople as missionary, he/it visited the Christian captive, comforted them, fortified those whose faith was shaky, and worked to the conversion of the Moslems; but it was seized by order of the Sultan and convicted to die on a gibbet. During three days and three nights, he/it remained attaché in the gallows, suspended by two square brackets, driven one in one his/her/its hands, the other in one his/her/its feet; but at the end of these long sufferings, an angel detached it, heals it and ordered him to return in Italie.Rentré in his/her/its homeland, the saint exercised the apostolic ministry in Umbria, evangelizing preference the simple and the small, and, as the divine Mr., browsing the villages and the hamlets, announcing God's kingdom, soothing the factions, edifying by his/her/its examples and converting by his/her/its miracles.Pauvre as his/her/its seraphic Father, he lay down on boards and used a trunk of tree in manner of pillow. In his/her/its predications, he/it begged and prepared himself his/her/its poor food; he/it didn't accept the dress that had already served to someone of his/her/its brothers and that was not patched. After twenty years dedicated to the service of the Lord thus, he/it fell asleep in a blissful death, February 4 1612.Tirer Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p 65-66

François of Meako, o.f.m. and 17 tertiary Brothers, martyrs in Japan (1597)

The officers didn't dare however, to stop one so big number of it; seventeen were only associated to the glorious martyrdom of the Franciscan missionaries. Among them, there was a young man of nineteen years named Gabriel, descended of a noble Japanese family, who had been page in the court of the governor of Méako; a child of fifteen years only named Thomas, another of thirteen, named Antoine, a third Louis, aged of eleven years. All showed, until the death, a fearlessness and a constancy that softened the executioners them - same. One also attached them a Japanese Jesuit with two servants who were admitted in Jesus' Company before their martyre.Cependant, to the announcement of the persecution, that one believed to must to be general, the Christian of Japan offered a spectacle, unique maybe in annals of the church: on all the extent of empire, the supporters of all age and all condition, made to explode their joy, transfer their goods, get ready of the feast dresses for the big day of the martyrdom. One sees them rising in an admirable union to run in crowd, and to put all in Suvre so that their names are registered on the list of the martyrdoms; they are ready â to confess their faith and to seal it of their blood: God was content with their holy desires; as for the religious of FRANÇOIS saint AND TO THE MATES OF THEIR MARTYRDOM, THEY were UNITED IN THE JAIL OF Méako, capital of empire and ducts in Nangasaki to be crucified on a mountain neighboring of this city.

The journey lasted one month and all along the path, Christian and pagan, hurrying in crowd on their passage, made explode the testimonies of their sympathy and their admiration; a lot of Christian even, asked has be associate to the holy phalanx, but the soldiers repulsed them with brutality. For the martyrs, they followed the painful way, soon praying and absorbed in God, soon, preaching to the people the faith for which they were going to die. The three young children were especially for the spectators one object of admiration; ` they walked, the hands bound behind the back, the beaming face of a supernatural joy alternating the recitation of the dominical prayer with the song of the angelic greeting. The governor of Nangasaki having come to the meeting of the cortege lives them and his/her/its cSur was moved some; it tried to shake them and to win them by promises: "Keep your riches, tells him Louis, the smallest of all, I despise them, and don't want some of others that those of the sky. "To their entry in Nangasaki, ever sovereign was not the object of a demonstration more imposing and more spontaneous on behalf of the people, while climbing their martyrdom, and at the sight of the crosses that crown it, they begin the Benedictus70 hymn; and each going toward his/her/its cross, kiss it and the press against his/her/its cSur. The crucifixions began, the martyrs were attached to the instrument of the torment, while the children sang the psalm of the praise: Laudate Pueri Dominum, Saint Pierre - Baptist, as the mother of the Corpses, was reserved for the last; he/it had seen to immolate all his/her/its children before him and when the iron of the spears crossed them the body, it had heard them to exclaim: "Paradise, paradise! "After having encouraged the Christian and exhorted a last time the pagans to kiss the true faith, he/it forgave to his/her/its executioners and expira.Des prodigies accompanied the passion of the martyrs and followed their blissful death; luminous meteors in the shape of cross covered the sky, the city of Méako feels a terrible earthquake that destroyed the temples of the idols and a flooding made perish a lot of people; in the same city, one lives saint's statue François qu" 'one venerated in the Church, to spill a sweat of blood, in presence of a crowd hit of stupor. The bodies of the martyrs remained attachés to their crosses during two months spilled a celestial perfume and globes of fires came to land on their head. Saint Pierre - Baptist, after his/her/its death, disappeared several times of his/her/its cross, one lives it celebrating the Mass in the Church that the Franciscans possessed in Nangazaki, attended of the young Antoine, clothed of white; one heard the harmonies coming from an invisible world, and as the blood of the martyrs was at all times a seed of Christian, the city where the martyrs had endured, and that didn't count whereas some thousand of Christian live the faith to propagate itself/themselves so quickly, that a short time after, it counted some until thirty mille.Tirer of the Set The Flowers Franciscans flight. 1 p. 66

The good Brother Aegis sanctified himself/itself in the humble functions of porter and collection taker, and during a half century, he built and sometimes livened the city of Naples. Filial abandonment to God's good pleasure, perfect obedience, austerities without name, absolute poverty, charity without boundary-marks towards the neighbor, to stretch devotion towards Jesus-Host, trustworthy feelings of love towards the a lot of Saint-Virgin; such were his/her/its characteristic virtues; God in return seemed he abandoned asset his/her/its power to make some miracles.Il made to some even, as while being played, his/her/its life is filled some; one day a shopkeeper of Sufs, making his/her/its plain tour, slips and tomb with all his/her/its eggs that break; that that seer, the poor woman took herself/itself to cry; by happiness, Brother Aegis passed by there, and approaching; "Calm yourselves, good woman, he says to him, it is not anything, it is not anything ", and himself diminishing, takes two shells, joins them together and puts them in the basket, while saying: There is a that is whole" of it"; he/it takes all others thus and fills the basket, to the stupefaction and to the big joy of the humble shopkeeper; all are whole and a trace of break doesn't appear

In other opportunity, Brother Aegis wanting to obtain of fish surrenders close to the pond of the royal palace. While arriving he/it exposes his/its request to the fishers of His/her/its Majesty; these answer to him that not having sinned, they cannot satisfy it: "Never mind that, says the good Brother, I assign to take fish myself. And with what will you take them? With my hands,--Go therefore, told to him them while joking, everything that you will take is yours. "The Brother lets them laugh, approach of the pond, pull from his/her/its pocket a piece of bread that he crumbles in water, and immediately, the fish to run. He/it examines them, and when he/it agrees to him, he/it attracts it very close to these only words; "For Pascal saint ". seizes it and puts it in his/her/its basket. He/it makes his/its provision before the mute fishers of surprise, and takes the path of the couvent.D'autres time, he/it livens by his/its repartees: As he/it attracted the crowds, some gatherings formed themselves around him, and they became so frequent, that they attracted the police's attention; Aegis was threatened with a suit: "A suit against me, he/it tells the judges; it is against you that it is necessary to institute it for the whole pain that you make dan kingdom", and the business remained some there. But God especially showed his/her/its servant's high virtue by number of sinners that he converts and of patients that he heals, what proves that the simplicity and the good mood are far from being incompatible with the holiness. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1 p.78

Set -1 - 15 Févs. + 1302
Blissful André Of Segni, priest o.f.m. (+1302)

Nephew of the Pope Innocent IV, uncle of Boniface VIII, of lamême family that the big Popes Innocent III and Grégoire IXS; one wanted to make cardinal not only the Blissful André because of his/her/its high relations but especially because of his/her/its big virtue; he/it refuses, and he/it was more, because it was a saint.Entré in the order of Saint-François, he/it spent his/its life in an underground cave neighboring of his/her/its convent and one of his/her/its austerities that was not of the least, it is that having a gigantic size living in a reduced very low he/it was obliged continually to live there on the knees or incliné.Sa life was a long fight against the assaults and the temptations of the demons; one invokes it also efficiently in the temptations of the bad minds. He/it was at the same time a man of survey and one of his/her/its biggest theologians of his/her/its time, giving as well as other and practicing especially, himself the true science, the one that makes the saints. To pull Flowers Franciscainses VOl.1 p. 86

Set 1 - 15 Févs. 1350
Transfer of the relics of ANTOINE saint OF PADUA (1350)


Friday June 13, 1231, toward in the evening, holy Antoine returned his/her/its soul to God in a suburb of Padua.. He/it was decided that his/her/its body would be transported to very Padua to be buried in the church Saint - Marie, of the Minor Brothers, as the saint had expressed lle desire of it; the ceremony was fixed to Tuesday the 27 juin.Padoue, that day, opened out the whole splendor of his/her/its pumps; the streets were paraded and were strewn of flowers. On the course of the cortege, God liked sowing the most vivid prodigies in order to glorify his/her/its servant: all patients who had happiness to touch his/her/its coffin were healed; those even, that because of the crowd, could not approach, were healed by the only view of his/her/its relics. It is why this day of marvels that was to be one Tuesday, remained imperishable has the memory of the supporters and Tuesday was dedicated to Antoine saint from then on. The prodigies continuing itself/themselves, constantly occurring again, Grégoire IX believed not to delay his/her/its canonization more; this solemnity took place the day of the Pentecost 1232, about one year after his/her/its mort.A twenty-five years of there, the inhabitants of Padua delivered of the tyranny of Ezzelino by the protection of the thaumaturge, wanted to prove him their recognition. A church was built him on vast enough proportions to receive the crowd of the pilgrims; one used to decorate it everything that the art of this time produced more beautiful: the tabernacle of the high altar was entire makes precious stones; statuaries of marble and bronze decorated the inside of the monument, the second transfer was fixed to April 7, 1262, Sunday of Quasimondo.

When one opened the tomb, he/it exhaled himself/itself a celestial perfume that fills all the church of it; the fleshes were in dust but his/her/its language was found cool and vermilion. Saint Bonaventure, then general some order took it respectfully between his/her/its hands and side of the pity tears, it exclaimed; blessed "0 language that rented God always and made it bless some men, one now sees how much you are precious in front of the Lord. "she/it was placed in a shrine of gold and was kept like an inestimable.Un treasure third transfer had place February 13, 1316, when the works of the basilica were finished entirely; the saint's tomb was transported in the middle of the big nave of this basilica of Saint-Antoine that is one of the most beautiful to the mode. In the inside, one built a magnificent chapel in which one transferred the holy tomb definitely later; it is there that one sees it again today; this transfer taken place February 13, 1350 and in this day, one enacted to celebrate in the order celebrates it of the transfer of the relics of Antoine.Tirer saint of the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p 87-90

Set 1 - 16 Févs. + 1236
Blissful Philippa Of Maréri, virgin, clarisse (+1236)

Before dying Claire saint had joy to see one of his/her/its daughters placed on the altars; the blissful Philippa. His/her/its parents had honor to receive to their home the seraphic Patriarch and the view of God's man fills the cSur of their daughter of the contempt of the world and the desire to be all Christ's. His/her/its father gave him a church of which he had the patronage; she had a former monastery that was adjoining to him repaired and with some companions she lived there under the austere Rule of Claire saint; she had like director the Blissful Roger of Todi, mate of Saint François.Elle sacrificed for the sinners, and as the passereau of the gospel gave way in Providence for the necessities of life. God rewarded his confidence by miracles; by his/her/its mediator, he multiplied wheat and bread and according to the speech gave him February 13, 1236 kingdom of the heaven in addition of the things of the earth. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. 990

Set 1 - 19 Févs. 1290-1351
Saint Conrad Of Pleasure, o.f.s hermit. (1290 - 1351)

God used an accident to make of Conrad a saint. Being one day to hunt, he/it put by accident fire to crops, and the disaster was immense; it moved away secretly and a poor peasant was seized, accused and convinced falsely of the fire of which he was the author; he was going to be put to death, when Conrad, advanced by remorse, gives up himself/itself and offered his/her/its fortune to repair the damage. This event makes him make deep reflections on the instability of goods and the happiness of the earth and it retired in a solitude of Sicily to pass there, under the Rule of the Third Order, the rest of his/her/its life in the prayer and the penitence. An underground cave was henceforth his/her/its home, the naked earth his/her/its bed, some raw herbs and a little black bread his/her/its food. He/it defeated the demons, he/it defeated himself/itself himself while sometimes rolling itself/themselves in the thorns and to make God glory by this double Very High triomphe.Le, by his/her/its prayers, blessed the populations of the vicinity; he/it was even their providence in time of famine during which he/it rescued the thousands of poor people as distributing them a food that the angels brought him of the ciel.On especially invokes it for the recovery of the hernies.Les Flowers Franciscans Set 1 page 91-92

Set 1 - 20 Févs. +1304
Blissful Pierre Of Tréja, priest o.f.m. (1304)

This Blessed had honor to receive the homespun Franciscan of the hands of François saint himself and with the dress he donned also, and forever, the mind of the one that the him donnait.Il was a zealous minister of the gospel at the same time as a model of life religieuse.Il had happiness to see, one day of the feast of the Purification, the august Queen of the heaven to deposit his/her/its adorable Son in the arms of his/her/its holy friend, the Blissful Conrad of Offida with that him vivait.Il lives as holy Jean, the friend of the Savior and especially holy Michel for which, to the example of his/her/its seraphic Father, he had a to stretch dévotion.Un last day of the fast that he had observed in honor of this archangel, the glorious Mind appeared to him, maintained it for a long time, gave him the insurance of the complete remission of his/her/its sins and the overflowing soul of consolation.Il let it had frequent ecstasies on the earth before enjoying the the eternal ecstasy of the sky to Pull from the Flowers Franciscans flight 1.p. 92


Set 1 - 22 Févs. 1247-1297

To his/her/its entry in the city she/it made the meeting of two beneficent ladies that welcomed it in their house and the repentance entered to powerful streams in his/her/its cSur. She/it had wanted to return to Montepulciano to ask for forgiveness of his/her/its scandals; of the less she in Laviano made it his/her/its native village, in one day of Sunday and during the grand'messe, and she/it poured such an abundance of tears, that his/her/its compatriots first astonished, gaze at soon to cry with her. After a test of three years, she/it was admitted in the Third Order, and the one that had sinned a lot started liking every day more and to authenticate his/her/its love by an inouïe.Elle penitence retired first in a small lone house, close to the church of the nuns, of which she/it followed the offices assiduously, taking care to take care of the women in layers; she/it founded the hospital of Mercy, even existing today then on Jesus' order himself she/it entered in a reclusion in the summit of the city close to the Saint-Basile church where she/it remained until her/its death.


During his/her/its life of misplacement, Marguerite was unhappy: "I lost everything, she/it said, honor, the dignity, the paix70;sauf the faith. "And this faith emerged in it to condemn his/her/its sin, to make bitter the very inebriation that one can prove there and it was by force this same faith, divine light and source that incited it to the penitence, to the repair, and what penitence, what repair! Non happy to mortify itself/themselves, to macerate itself/themselves, to lie down on the hard, to be content with a little bread, water, and some herbs for food, non happy to pass the biggest part of his/her/its nights in the contemplation and the prayer, to bruise his/her/its body by the cilice and the bloody disciplines, she/it will be thirsty of humiliation, of slanders, especially she/it longed for the contempt, to become for all one object of disgust, she/it had wished that one threw him of the mud, that one trampled it, and she/it made irruption in full church shouting his/her/its sin to the collected supporters; she/it spread with a bitter complaisance the memory of his/her/its overflows asking all to disgrace it. And now the Christ raised it little by little, he made his/its daughter of it then his/her/its wife; he designated it by miracle to the attention of the men of his/her/its time. "You have been made, told to him him, to shout the peace to the inhabitants of Cortone", Marguerite called the peace and the Cortonnaises made up: "you will warn the bishop of Arezzo about dismissing his/her/its troops, and to make the peace with Cortone. Misfortune to him, if he/it doesn't obey! And the voice of the mediator of the peace disarmed the bishop of Arezzo, then his/her/its look carried farther; Jesus enjoined him to pray and to sacrifice so that the emperor and the king of Sicily stopped disputing to the Pope the possession of some earths of which he was the legitimate sovereign, and the dispute stopped. Seeing holy Louis dying and Midsummer's Day of acre threatened by the infidels: "make precipitate the departure of the Crusaders, she/it shouted to the Franciscans. God orders it. "And the idea of crusade tormented the Christian consciencesSaint Marguerite was therefore in the church the mediator of peace chosen by the Christ; her he was also in the order of Saint-François that began to divide against himself; one wondered if this Order so glorious to his/her/its beginnings, in the breast of which of the holiness lights had shone as numerous as the stars in the heart of the night, that had made triumph the church of the tyranny of the emperor Frédéric II of Germany, didn't go forever himself enténébrer and succumb to his/her/its own dissensions; it is whereas Marguerite was put by the Christ in charge of reassuring it and to pacify it, she unmasked the heresy of the Fraticelleses, made triumph the partisans of the strict observance, and Jesus by his/her/its voice renewed to the Franciscans the expression of his/her/its eternal amour.De by the will of the one that had chosen it she even plays in the Order a role of prophétisme and agonizing the veils of the future she showed to him and his/her/its tribulations and his/her/its big destinies; she didn't stop asking Jesus for the religious family who guided it indeed and protected it or to interrogate it on his/her/its future and became thus, of by his/her/its gratitude, the big prophet of the Franciscan order,: ' Say to the Minor Brothers, ordered him him, that approach the time for which they must get ready to tribulations, to the middle of which they will seem fallen of their first state; but I will be with them and he/it won't remain to the world any religion so beloved, no Order that will serve me to the same point and knows the Minor Brothers again that I gave to them and gave them some more abundant graces than to quelqu 'other religious Order that either to the world. However, that they get ready to carry the tribulations by which they will resemble me, and I will be with them, and that they don't fear what I want their life similar to mine, because I will never abandon them. They will have a Pope who will seem to put in order the whole world, and he/it will rather disperse it. After this tribulation, I will exalt the aforesaid Order and will return it gorgeously sublime. That he/it draws therefore in me strength and want to be pleasing to me only only and that his/her/its religious receive with care all those that they can bring to the order small and big. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.112s

March March 02 Blissful Agnès Of Prague, vierge,Clarisse (1220-1280) * March 05 Saint Jean-Joseph Of The Cross, priest o.f.m. (1654-1734) March 06 Saint Colette Of Corbie, virgin and reformer of the order of the Clarisse (1381-1447) March 09 Saint Catherine Of Bologna, virgin, Clarisse (1413-1463) * Co François Romaine, veuve,tertiaire, bottom. of the Oblates Olivéraineses (1384-1440) * March 11 Blissful Jean=Baptiste Of Fabriano (1469-1530) priests o.f.m. * Blissful Christophe Of Milan (1411-1485) priests o.f.m. * March 13 Blissful Agnello Of Pisa, priest o.f.m. (+1233) March 14 Transfer of the relics of the seraphic Doctor of the church Bonaventure saint (1434) March 18 Blissful Salvator Of Orta, Brother Franciscan convers (1520-1567) * March 19 Saint Joseph, virginal spouse of Marie, nutrient Father of Jesus. March 20 Blissful Jean Of Parma, priest, VIIe general minister of the order (1209-1289) Blissful Marc Of Monte-Gallo, priest o.f.m. (1427-1497) * Blissful Hippolyte Galantini, tertiary (1565-1620) * March 22 Welcome Saint, bishop of Osimo, o.f.m. (+1282) * March 26 Blissful Diego-Joseph Of Cadix, priest, Capuchin (1743-1801) March 28 Saint Jean Of Capistran, priest o.f.m. (1383-1436) March 29 * Blissful Jeanne Of Mail, baroness of Sillé, widow, tertiary (1331-1414)

"When there would not be sky, nor hell, I would like to

like God nevertheless always. "We have in the immense love expressed by these words, the secret of life frightening of austerity, burning of saint - Jean-Joseph of the Cross. Let's "like Notre-Seigneur, he/it said again, really like it and in truth, because the divine love is a big treasure. Happy the one that likes God! "He/it first fills the different loads of master of the beginners, local superior, and provincial in his/her/its Order, and in these different jobs he/it gave to his/her/its religious the example of all virtues always; having gotten then of the Pope the permission to refuse the dignities that one be able to henceforth offer to him, he/it thought only about dedicating itself/themselves to the salute and to the direction of the souls, and retired to the convent of Naples, cradle of his/her/its religious life.

To save the souls, he/it will save neither pains nor fatigues and until in his/her/its extreme old age, when one will recommend him to plan because of his/her/its infirmities: he/it will answer, that prevents me to work for the souls, and nevertheless I would not be covered some I would not have to for them to sacrifice my life in union with Jesus crucified. "The goodwill that holy Jean-Joseph opened out to save the souls was translated against himself in frightening austerities, whose only thought makes shiver the nature.

Under his/her/its coarse garment, he/it carried the cilices, of the chains of iron that he/it took care to vary to wake the sensation of the pain constantly every day up, continually he/it took bloody disciplines. When his/her/its superior prescribed him to use sandals for relieve his/her/its bruised feet and sick, he/it introduced small nails that made him endure a continual martyrdom there, but most terrifying instrument of penitence that it invented to macerate his/her/its body was a long cross of a foot decorated of sharp tips, that it tied strongly on the shoulders; it formed a wound that never again closed itself there, it carried another counterpart of it, but smaller, on the chest.

During the last thirty years of his/her/its life, he/it refused all beverage whatever he/it was, he/it didn't even absorb a drop of water. These penitences more admirable than imitable, sign and food of his/her/its God's love, show how far this love led it, to this life so austere until the age of eighty years. God granted to his/her/its generous servant of frequent visions and the ecstatic raptures. Soon during the prayer, a luminous halo surrounded its forehead, during the celebration of the holy Mass a ray of in-top came soon to illuminate his/her/its face and gave him a natural beauty, soon one saw it elevated of earth and absorbed in a divine contemplation; it even had several times happiness to receive in his/her/its arms the child-Jesus and to enjoy his/her/its ineffable interviews.

Among the numerous miracles that God made by the intervention of saint Jean-Joseph, we will only return one of it: one evening of February, as he/it went back to the convent, he/it met a Neapolitan merchant who had come to ask him to pray for his/her/its wife, about to be mother and in an imminent danger to lose life: "My wife, said the merchant, wants to eat some apricots, but it is impossible to find some in this season. - Well, well, answered the saint, that your wife waits for a little; of here to tomorrow God, holy Pierre of Alcantara and holy Pascal will provide there. "While going up the staircase, he/it saw some branches of chestnut: Brother Michel, says - him his/her/its mate, take three branches of these branches and plant them; that knows if God and holy Pierre of Alcantara won't make some take some apricot to save this poor woman and his/her/its child's soul! "The Brother didn't have big confidence; he took these branches nevertheless and planted them in a pot to flowers, that was on the window of the saint's cell; the morning, one finding them covered of verdant leaves and each of these branches carried a beautiful apricot; the merchant's woman ate some and was healed. And now the saint is at the sky and even his/her/its long and frightening penitences are not anything in comparison of the glory and happiness that are the eternal récompense.Tirer of the Flowers Franciscan vol1 of it. p,112 to 117

The Blissful John the Baptist, descended of a noble and former family, took advantage admirably of the devout education that he received his/its parents. Arrived to adolescence, he/it felt advanced toward one life more perfect and scornful the pumps of the century, he/it entered in the order of the Minor Brothers. He/it applied to observe all rules of the religious life, and gave the example of all virtues, especially the one of the humility. Although having a big appeal and of the particular arrangements for the studies, he/it preferred to take to the cares of the invalids, to avoid the honors that seemed to wait for it. By the austerity of his/her/its life, he/it looked like the Fathers of the desert, and applied as them day and night to the prayer. He/it liked the reading of the works of the holy Fathers a lot, collected some of the abundant fruits of piety and spilled them around him.

Wanting the death to be united to the Christ, he/it lives his/its happy vSux March 11 of the year 1539. One returns that the bells sounded them - same to announce his/her/its death. He/it let after him one so big renown of virtue and holiness, that immediately after his/her/its death, the supporters gave him Blessed's name.To pull from the Flowers Franciscan vol.1.p 13

Set -1 - March 11, 1411-1485
Blissful Christophe of Milan(1411-1485)

Glorious descendant of the family Maconoli, the Blissful Christophe was born at Milan, city already famous by so many saints.

In 1435, he/it entered at the Minor Brothers, where he/it had to during a half siècle,édifier by the practice of all virtues, United to the Blissful Pacific of Cérano, he/it gets the Pope Sixte IV and the duke Galeas Sforza the foundation of the convent of Viegevano, that was dedicated to Notre-Dame of the Graces. It is there, after ten years of stay, that he/it left his/its poor cell for the splendors of the Paradise, March 5 1485.Son cult was punished definitely by Léon XIII, July 23, 1890. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan vo1. p.1

Set 1 - March 13, +1233 Blissful Agnello of Pisa priest o.f.m. (+1233)

The young and noble Agnello was one of the first mates of François saint. The Blissful Father gave him himself the dress in Pisa in 1211, and had it always in big affection because of his/her/its uninterrupted progress in the virtue and his/her/its contempt of the vanities of the world; very young again, he was chief of the first swarm of Miners who establishes the order in France, founded a convent in Paris in 1216 and showed in his/her/its load a lot of prudence and of wisdom. In 1219 he/it left France to go to England with the same mission; he/it succeeds there admirably, founded several convents, attracted in the order of the young people of big families and even the bishop of Oxford deposited the cross and the miter to take the liveries of poverty, because the Blessed had established - an academy in this scholarly city for the instruction of his/her/its young religieux.+

Minor brother. On this occasion, the church where rested his/her/its body and that had been until there dedicated to François saint, was placed under the name of Bonaventure saint. One century later, Sixte V, him as Minor Brother, placed our saint to the rank of the Doctors of the church.

The people of Lyons always had a singular devotion for the seraphic Doctor; the young people of the city who had taken it for boss valued honor to celebrate his/her/its feast with the biggest burst and that day, they had reserved the privilege to provide the light. But the heresy had to delight one day to this devout city his/her/its precious deposit. In the XVI century the Huguenot browse France, slaughtering the priests and the religious, desecrating the churches, burning the monasteries, destroying in a word everything that recalled the Catholic cult; fierce mainly against the Minor Brothers, who had made dangerous to the heresy by their goodwill to defend the Catholic faith; they deliver to the flames most their convents and close to two hundred Sons of Saint François had l57;honneur then to pour their blood for l57;amour of Christ and l57;Église, his/her/its immortal Marries.

In the year 1562, these heretics surrendered masters of the city of Lyons and carried in his/her/its walls the mourning and the desolation. The convent of the Minor Brothers was invaded and was wrecked, the religious outcast. The venerable Jacques Goyette, their Superior constantly refused to reveal to the Calvinist the place where was hidden the body of Bonaventure saint, and, for price of his/her/its courage, he received the palm of the martyrdom. The heretics nevertheless discovered this holy body, threw it in the Rhôme; the chief of Bonaventure saint can alone to be subtracted to their sacrilegious hands. This precious and distinguished relic of the seraphic Doctor was kept in the church of the Franciscans of Lyons, but this treasure himself disappeared in the revolutionary storm of 1793, and, all efforts tempted to recover it, remained up to here without result. The saint's arm, sent in Italy in 1434, before the devastations of the Protestantism, keep himself again in Bagnorea, place of his/her/its birth.To pull from the Flowers Franciscan vol.1. p 136 à140

Set 1 - March 18, 1520 -
Blissful Salvator Of orta, brother Franciscan convers (1520-1567)

First shepherd, then shoemaker and finally religious; one can call it a saint to miracles, because the miracles that he/it made in his/its life were innumerable, Daza, his/her/its analyst, values them to more of a million. The source of this supernatural power was his/her/its deep humility: "Brother Salvator, told to him one, you that operate so many miracles by the sign of the cross, make sure that the vain glory doesn't slip himself in your cSur. And the Blessed to answer: --Know that I am like a bag filled of straw, that is also honored, that he/it is placed to the top of a house or in the lowest place, or even in a stall. "

And God who exalts the humble to confound the superb used this poor Brother to strengthen the faith in the souls by prodigies as numerous as vivid precisely in one century where endeavored of destroyed the Catholicism to substitute the system there religious having for basis the individual reason of proud supposed reformers, the book exam or in other words the human pride.

This is how one saw to run every day in the convent where the Blessed stayed a compact crowd of patients: feverish, hydropiques, epileptics, spring, blind, mute, pbtisiques, limping, hunchbacks, cripples, paralytics, who knelt and prayed while asking loudly for the holy thaumaturge. Salvator left its dishes, if he was cook, his/her/its spade, if he worked at the garden, and presented itself to his/her/its thousands of patients; he enjoined them to all to be going to confess and to receive communion, because, he" said, God would not know how to grant particular favors to his/her/its enemies, it is necessary that the one that wants to be granted confesses and makes penitence; then God will certainly grant him that for that he asks "; then he blessed them and they were healed. His/her/its Superior, wanting to feel his/her/its obedience, this stone of key of the humility and the true holiness, sent it in big secret in a distant convent, while calling it rough draft, of lazy person and of proud; the saint returned itself of it without feeling the least offended self-esteem emotion, but the crowd of his/her/its customers, pushed by a mysterious strength, there she also happened to the following day, and these asked according to their habit for their benefactor. After having made shine his/her/its servant's holiness thus, the divine Mr. recalled it to him of it stays up it of the feast of Joseph saint of the year 1567, to give him his/her/its reward, because, to his/her/its example, he/it had passed on the earth, '' while making the good ". His/her/its body, preserved of all corruption, rests in Cagliari, in Sardinia, where one invokes it against the fever. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p 141

So, in this day of feast, we make mention of the glorious holy patriarch

Joseph, it is not that he/it belongs to the Franciscan family, but it is on the contrary because the Franciscan family belongs to him. He/it is some, indeed, the special boss, and the celestial protective; as at all times, even before his/her/its cult was spilled in the church, as it is today, the members of the three Orders of François saint had it them in particular reverence, and they appeared eager to propagate his/her/its devotion. For us, children of the seraphic Poverello in Canada, we have a reason all special to honor especially holy Joseph. We must not forget, indeed, that the first évangélisateurs of our country, the Brothers Minor Récolletses, placed it, in 1624, under his/her/its glorious patronage, and that this same saint is the holder of the present Franciscan Province, established on the Saint's verge - Laurent.

Let's incline ourselves therefore, in this day, with a deep respect owing the one that is, to so many stocks, our celestial boss;, let's renew to his/her/its feet the testimony of our devotion and let's ask him to make decorate with flowers in our souls these virtues that he/it practiced so heroically and that agree if well to the children of the poor, the humble and the ardent holy François of Foundation. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1 p.142 to 144

Set 1 - March 20, 1209-1289

Blissful Jean of Parma,

priest VIIe general minister of the order (1209-1289)
The test, the contradiction is the authentic marks of the divine works; it is in the middle of the difficulties that the founders of religious orders spent their life customarily, But if it is laborious to build, it is even harder to reform. It is to this heavy task that the Blissful Jean of Parma dedicated his généralat. Full of love for his/her/its seraphic Father and full of desire to maintain his/her/its glorious Ideal, he/it didn't see with pain the devotion of the first time decreasing and undertook to make relive in the order that was confided him the piety of the founder and his/her/its first mates. It is why he/it started visiting in person the different house of the Order in order to restore the religious discipline everywhere where she/it had weakened, making all his/her/its journeys on foot, and clothed of a poor and coarse dress.

During ten years, he/it worked thus to make refleurir everywhere the mind of François saint, encouraging the good, reforming with sweetness and firmness what was contrary to the mind and to the rules of the order, especially preaching the holy poverty and encouraging in the way of the sacrifice by his/her/its examples, and by his/her/its entire life more more that by his/her/its words. He/it had some consolations, but he/it also met the oppositions that were for him of the sources of deep bitterness. He/it resigned then of his/her/its load, and as one asked him to designate his/her/its successor, he/it returned to the Order that he/it liked and that he/it wanted holy between all, an immense service while giving him for chief, holy Bonaventure. He/it spent the thirty-two years of his/her/its life in the solitude of Greccdio where he/it led a life more angelic than human. This Blessed had to suffer for the justice on behalf of the men, but to the bottom of his/her/its hermitage, the birds of the sky appeared his/her/its friends. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p,145

Set 1 - March 20, 1427-1497
Blissful Marc of Montegallo priest (1427-1497 -)

The Blissful Marc of Montegallo first exercised in the world physician's profession. He/it was married. The most complete union existed between his/her/its wife and him; they were especially united by a common and ardent desire of the perfection. To reach it more easily, they agreed to separate mutually. His/her/its wife took the veil at the Clarisseses of Ascoli, while he entered at the Minor Brothers of Fabriano.

It was the Virgin Saint who oriented his/her/its vocation then; appearing to him one day, she/it tells to him: "Go therefore Brother Marc to preach the charity to the men. "As from that moment and during forty years he/it didn't stop making hear God's speech with a marvelous vigor, and as the divine Virgin had ordered it, especially preaching concord and the peace, to him. As the Christ's good soldier, he/it died in full fight; right in the middle of a predication of Lent, he/it made to his/its listeners the singular announcement of the imminence of his/her/its death, He/it got ready then to the big passage of the time to the eternity, received the last sacraments and, to the imitation of François saint, made itself read the Christ's Passion; as one arrived to these words: "and having inclined the head, he/it returned his/her/its soul ", the Blessed who had imitated the divine Mr. during his/her/its life imitated it in the death, because he/it also inclined him the head and handed his/her/its soul to God. It was March 19, 1497, he/it was 70 years old. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. - 147

In the second half of the XVIe century, Florence's inhabitants attended spectacles as strange in their novelty that edifying in their naive simplicity. It was in their city of the groups of children to that one among them, of a dozen of years about, taught the catechism and prepared to the receipt of the sacraments. This young itinerant preacher, an apprentice Hippolyte Galantini. He/it had some cooperators soon and formed thus with young educated people who stood under his/her/its direction a society for the Christian instruction of the poor children that took the name of Confraternity of the Christian doctrine of François saint. As before all good Suvre inspired of God, some opponents rose, she/it met an opposition so strong that one even thought that she/it was going to perish.

But a celestial voice made itself hear to the young apostle to encourage it: "Courage, Hippolyte. Servant of God, she/it said, persevere in your good Suvre, you will collect the fruits of your work soon. "And soon indeed, Hippolyte found a powerful protective in the person of Alexander of Médicis, archbishop of Florence, who became later Pope under the my of Léon XI. Then the aumônes flowed, the devout young man constructed in a corner of garden conceded by the Minor Brothers of Ognissanti, a chapel and a house to unite his/her/its children there. The Suvre spilled then in different parts of Italy, and in 1602, it received the approval of the Pope Urbain VIII officially. The humble weaver will found other Suvreses thereafter as patronage, of the popular soups to help the poor people in their spiritual and temporal needs.

But while working to the sanctification of the other, he/it didn't disregard his clean. He/it was careful with a jealous care to separate everything that could have soiled the purity of his/her/its soul. When one rented it like an angel sent of God on the earth, he/it told himself/itself biggest sinner of the world and implored the mercy of the Very High for his/her/its numerous mistakes. He/it never, trusted his/her/its own lights; he/it always asked for advice devout men, acted according to their opinion. Since this life God often intoxicated his/her/its soul of delights as she had difficulty containing them, also heard it one to whisper: "Oh Jesus that you are good, that you like us; and even in his/her/its sleep: "I sleep, he/it said, but my cSur stays up and think to you Lord. "When this humble and charitable tertiary died the mourning was universal and he/it carried away with him the title of apostle of Florence"
. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol1s. p. 148 to 150

Set 1 - March 22 + 1282
Saint Welcome, bishop of Osimo,O.F.M.(+1282)

Gifted of a beautiful intelligence, Welcome, of the family of the Scotivolis, made his/her/its studies of civil law and canonical to the famous University of Bologna. There he/it had the rare happiness to find there for schoolmate and friend the future founder of the Sylvestrinses, holy Slyvestre Gozzolini and it was during the youth of these souls of choice a glorious emulation for the acquirement of the science and the virtue.

First secular priest, then archidiacre of Ancona, the merits of Welcome were so obvious in this delicate function that the Pope Urbain IV wanting to bring back to the obedience the diocese of Osimo that had declared for the impious Frédéric II, emperor of Germany, confided him the administration of this diocese revolted and deprive bishop for this crime. In spite of the difficulty of the task, while uniting tact to the holiness, the firmness to the sweetness, the apostolic administrator made so that he brought back the clerks and the supporters to the most complete obedience to the Roman Pontiff, and the Pope rewarded of it to him as bishop of Osimo creating it.

Far from letting itself/themselves dazzle by the burst of the Episcopal dignity and the favor of the Sovereign-Pontiff, God's servant showed by an unexpected gait how he heard to govern the souls confided to his/her/its cares. He/it wanted, before his/her/its Episcopal consecration to don the poor dress of the Minor Brothers and to make profession of the rule. The surest means to attract the celestial blessings on his/her/its ministry, it was, he/it believed with reason, to exercise it in poverty, the humility, the penitence and an unceasing prayer for his/her/its people's sins. His/her/its vSux was granted, and until the death, he/it wore the dress of François saint while observing the austerities of the rule that he/it had kissed.

Osimo had found a prelate according to God's cSur, attentive to his/her/its people's needs, zealous for the glory of the celestial, and worthy Father to act as model to all pastors of the souls. One will see it firm and unshakable in the defense of the rights of the church, to visit his/her/its diocese while spilling the evangelical speech everywhere. Faithful interpreter of the apostle's thoughts holy Paul, he/it brought an extreme care to the exam of the candidates to the holy Orders, and he/it had happiness to order priest a saint, who was the glory of the Order of the Augustinses: Nicolas of Tolentino. After thirteen years of episcopate, about to die, he/it made himself/itself carry to his/her/its church-cathedral, and there, to the example of François saint, made itself spread on the naked earth, in order to leave this world in a complete poverty. It is while delivering itself/themselves to the impetuses of God's love that he/it returned the soul. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol1s. p.151 -152

Of cloister in cloister, Capistran walked the austere, implacable rule, that bruised the well-being to teach to live better and his/her/its action was of the most decisive on all the order of the Miners. His/her/its only aspect announced the disgrace of the flesh; the outside of this small man was by himself a manifesto; dry, lean, exhausted, he had skin only on the bones, but his/her/its ardent soul like an interior spring mobilized the skeleton and shook the weariness.

To the outside, in Italy, in France and in most countries of Europe, these were the whole populations who ran to hear his/her/its speech; the renown sometimes lends him until hundred one thousand and same hundred fifty thousand listeners, and then it interrupted rain, made say nothing about the cicadas and the swallows, ordered to the illness to flee and to the death, to move back. The devil himself was forced to obey his/her/its voice: "To his/her/its voice, Hungary took the weapons and ran to the help of Belgrade, last rampart of Europe. Sixty thousand crusaders, half soldiers half pilgrims, got under his/her/its orders with Jean Huniade their general and obeyed to him as" beginners to their Superior ", and thanks to him the Christian Europe was saved.

In this XVe century, where the worry of the national interests began to prevail on the general utility of the Christian society, a Capistran, a Jacques of the Marche, who was his/her/its contemporary, his/her/its friend, his/her/its brother in religion and his/her/its emulator in holiness stood up against the current of the new politics; they faded by their words, their acts and their influence this offensive of the mind of the world and arrived, at least for one time, to revive the old mind of Christendom, and it is not exaggeration if the Church applying to Jean saint of Capistran, use such words: "Oh famous soldier of Christ, light of Italy, star of the Bohemia, new splendor of Germania, terror of the barbarians, vivid torch of Hungary, glory of Poland, grant the vSux of those that prays you! To "pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p.155 à160

Set March 29, 1331-1414 1
Blissful Jeanne Of Mail, baroness of Sillé, widow, tertiary, (1331-1414)

There isa child who hardly thinks about becoming queen, said a discouraged housekeeper, of the small Jeanne-Marie of Mail. "And it was true; in spite of the noble blood of Netted them and of the Montbazons that flowed in his/her/its vein, Jeanne didn't think about anything else that to put in practice the recommendations of the holy Writings that, every evening, were read and commented before the family by a honest and scholarly Franciscan" ". In that time a queen of France gave the example of the lust and sold the country to the enemy, the schism tore God's church and threw in the souls the disarray and their bidder two and even three popes, the war of Hundred Years and the black pestilence distressed the half of the world; it is why God caused in Touraine to the cSur of France and one of his/her/its most famous families a child whom he would ask for the virginity in the marriage, a saint who would be his/her/its victim and that would pacify his/her/its anger.

Jeanne grew in age and in contemplation, the Virgin Saint in person had made him pronounce the vSu of virginity; close to her grew also a small friend of games, that she had, in an opportunity, saved one day of the death by his/her/its childish prayer, the young Lord of Sillé, and his/her/its parents notified him that he had to be his/her/its spouse. The marriage made itself, indeed, but Jeanne's prayers didn't have a difficulty persuading his/her/its young husband, because it was he as worthy of it by his/her/its virtue, to keep the virginity in the marriage. The new household was only an union for good works, and the only joy that these two pure beings wanted to must and to give itself/themselves one to the other, was joy to help each other to make the good. During this terrifying war of Hundred Years that accumulated so many ruins and sowed so many miseries, the castle of Sillé became all whole an orphanage, a hospice for the poor people and an agency for the acquisition of the prisoners.

In spite of all it, God wanted again more because he destined Jeanne to the highest holiness. His/her/its husband injured severely to the battle of Poitiers finished to die in a hard captivity; his/her/its brother-in-law expelled it of his/her/its domains and the saint returned to Mail. "Mr. Saint Yves ". the glorious priest and tertiary Breton canonized since 16 years appeared to him and inspired him his/her/its thirst of justice and his/her/its love of the poor people; on his/her/its demand she/it retired in Tours in a small house close to the basilica of Saint-Martin and every day she/it asked the protector of France for a long time; then she/it sold all sound to have, gave the price of it to the poor wretches, donned the dress of the Third party - Order and lived the aumônes that she/it collected, while stretching the hand.

Hunted by the owner of the poor lodgings that she/it lived in and that feared of more to be paid, she/it lived during some time in a stable, but was recalled then in his/her/its home by the repentance of the one that had first dismissed it; she/it made herself/itself then sometimes the maid of the poor people of the hospice Saint-Martin, taking his/her/its lodging soon by the isolated oratories, she/it was roaming on the roads without knowing where to rest his/her/its head; toward the end of his/her/its life, she/it was 64 years old then, she/it was collected like a poor in an inn of the Minor brothers; it is there that she/it finished her/its long, crucifying and holy life March 28, 1414, she/it was 82 years old.
During the 52 years that lasted his/her/its widowhood, the Blissful Jeanne of Mail wanted to be, for God's love, a voluntary wreckage.

She/it had a deep reverence for the Saint - Sacrament, she/it passed in his/her/its presence of the whole nights and when she/it received communion, his/her/its poor face, pale and lean by austerities, took its quick colors. There, she/it drew strength to take to all works of mercy; enters his/her/its hours of prayer she/it devoted herself/itself for the poor people, evangelized the prisoners, took care of the lepers. To the means the leprosy ages, illness as cruel as repugnant, made in Europe awful devastations. The poor wretches who were reached of it were condemned to a perpetual sequestration and provoked the horror of the society; but they also provided a heroic food to the goodwill of the charity Christians; the generous souls called to a big perfection liked to take to the care of the lepers and formed themselves to the holiness in this school of abnegation and sacrifices; one also saw in them in these ages of faith, The one that, in the holy Letters, was compared itself to them and had become like leper for the love of us, Jeanne of Mail was going to take care of them until in their léproseries and lavished them all services that he suggested his/her/its saint's charity.

As for the prisoners, she/it got Charles VI the liberation of those that was detained to Tours and God, to the saint's prayers, ratified the royal act while making fall miraculously their chains that wanted from the joking and rebellious jailers, in spite of his/her/its demand, to maintain and to tighten. Before queen Isabeau, she/it stood in reformer of the mSurs, and the queen had big need of it; and even, in this sumptuous and libertine court, she made some conversions and one lives big ladies to transform their attires in ornaments for the churches. His/her/its very contemplations were for the Blissful of the new sources of voluntary anguish, because she/it liked by all his/her/its being's identification to substitute itself/themselves of it for the suffering Christ or to the martyrs in their torments and to renew on herself his/her/its august pains. There was not until his/her/its family's members that blushed of its poverty: One day that his/her/its brother Hardouin of Mail passed in superb crew on a public beach of Tours, thankful his/her/its sSur in a squalid passer-by who had just bought the grape for a poor patient of the hospital, he diverted himself/itself full from disgust and rebel against God who humiliated the noble family thus of Mail in one his/her/its members: one wanted to serve the Christ in the famous race, and even to pour his/her/its blood for his/her/its reason since one had gone to the crusades, but one wanted to serve it in the glory. For Jeanne on the contrary, there were not any limits and granted to serve it until in the shame. Such were the stages of life that, of a big lady, made a big saint. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p. 160-164

Set 1 - April 02, 1732-1815
Blissful Léopaold Of the Gaicheses, priests o.f.m. (17323-1815)

Be this because of the humility of their profession that the God of the humble often communicates himself/itself to the shepherds and to the shepherdesses; is this because au middle of the soft and calm nature where they live, they receive communion more easily by her with The one that in is The author! Can - to be for one and the other reason; always he/it is that this fact is frequently repeated in history, and the Blissful Léopold counts among these souls.

He/it was born in the year where holy Leonardo of Port-Maurice, the big Franciscan apostle, finished his career and entered in the celestial glory. It was the saint that he/it took for model and of which he/it reproduced the apostolic virtues faithfully. First shepherd, he/it had God's innocent and already full childhood, then he/it entered among the Miners where he/it enriches his/its intelligence of the sacred sciences while continuing to decorate his/her/its cSur of the holiest virtues of which he/it encouraged the efflorescence by work, the care of the silence and the love of the retirement. Prepared thus, he/it gave himself/itself entire to the conquest and to the sanctification of the souls in the ministry of the predication, and since the beginning, his/her/its successes were immense. As seeing to appear this religious mortified, the even humid eyes of the tears that he/it had spilled to the foot of his/her/its crucifix, the forehead girds on one crown of thorns, a chain of wrapped iron around the neck, a big cross to the hand, the emotion won the cSurs; to the emotion followed the tears, and well often the missionary saint was obliged to suspend, and sometimes to abandon his/her/its sermon, to let place to the screams to repent that rose of all points of the audience, imploring the forgiveness and God's mercy. To these demonstrations followed the acts and the number of the conversions that he/it operated was prodigieux;à his/her/its speech, some enemies jurors made up, the another's property was restored, of the completely uprooted guilty and confirmed habits; while on the other hand of the young people to the flower of l57;âge, ran to lock themselves in cloisters in, of the girls to which smiled the most beautiful expectations of life renounced to the pleasures of the world to long for the nuncios of the lamb without stain; finally, people innumerable multitude occurred again in the mind of penitence, and took the dress of Saint's Third Order - François, in order to lead a regular and more perfect life.

Named to govern his/her/its brothers, he/it made it with wisdom, resigned then of his/her/its load, in order to be entire to the observances of the rule; in this goal, he/it founded a "Ritiro" or convent of retirement, on the Luc mount, close to Spolète, with special rules approved by the Saint Seat, and after having led life activates the most intense, he/it shone in the most elevated contemplative life. To the days bad of the revolution, that, at the end of the XVIII e century, upset France and Italy, one hunted it of his/her/its dear retirement; he/it left with several his/her/its Brothers, but they kept in the world their kind of life. He/it didn't stop preaching in Umbria, refused the schismatic oath that the revolutionary government imposed to the priests and was for this reason several times messenger in exile His/her/its high holiness, joined to the grant of the miracles and prophecies, as well as to the one to penetrate the secrets of the cSurs, made it venerate in all the Italy like God's man while it lived and cry like a father when it died. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1.-ps. 165-167


Set April 03 1 + 1260

"The last will be the first ", said the Divine previously Mr.; this speech of the gospel verifies itself to the letter for Benoît saint The More.

Born slave in Saint-Philadelphe, in Sicily, of parents slaves and descendants them - same of African slaves, born of the Negro race, Benoît could leave with difficulty from lower. Eldest of the family, he/it was the only child to which the master granted the liberty; first shepherd, then plowman, he/it left all, renounced itself himself, to amount forever to the soft slavery of God's good pleasure.

While observing the Rule of Saint-François he/it led, in the beginning of his/her/its life of total abandonment, the austere life of the hermits, then he/it was received like Brother convers at the Franciscans of Palermo, where he/it became in very a short time a model perfects religious perfection. In the middle of the absorbing work of a convent kitchen, his/her/its union to God was continual and his/her/its life was only an uninterrupted prayer, mortified in all, it pushed the goodwill for poverty, characteristic virtue of his/her/its Order, until the extreme and God showed by a miracle how much the dilection that his/her/its servant carried to the" Lady" of the Patriarch of the Poor people was pleasant to him: One day that, according to the use, the religious youngsters washed the dish, the saint noticed their few of care to keep some rests of the meal that they let lose in water and made to them mildly the reproaches: Please he says to them, rather keep them for the poor people, because it is there the blood of those that made us alms for God's love. "Considering this gentleness of conscience as exaggerated, the young clerks didn't take it into account. Then God's servant takes the small serving broom to clean the sink and to which adhered some remnants of food, he is urgent it in his/her/its hand and makes some take a big abundance of blood: "See, tells to them him, if I was right. "

Witnesses of his/her/its holy life and prodigies who signalled it, Benoît's Superior confided him guard's load, then the one of master of the beginners, and this poor ignoramus qu knew neither to read nor to write, returned to all to must easy and the pleasant religion; the beginners found in it a master consumed in the formation of the religious souls, it had the charming tact that the virtue gives indeed, and if it didn't possess the acquired science, the Holy spirit illuminated it of supernatural lights; it read in the cSurs and penetrated the secrets of the souls.

To the term of his/her/its double load, he/it came back to the kitchen with as much happiness as of humility; however the renown of his/her/its life and the noise of his/her/its miracles made it leave well often to comfort the grief-strickens and to relieve the poor people who were always the object of his/her/its predilection; he/it frequently put the generosity of providence to contribution about their case, and always God rewarded by miracles his/her/its to stretch compassion for their miseries; he heals during his/her/its life of the invalids of all sorts, a big number of mothers in the pains of the childbirth lasts life to his/her/its prayers, it even recalled, according to the suit of his/her/its canonization, several deaths to life. During his/her/its life the people's reverence for it was as when it left the convent, the crowd hurried around it to kiss it the hands, to touch his/her/its poor garment and to recommend itself/themselves to his/her/its prayers. To back out of these marks of reverence, he/it didn't leave, as much that possible, that of night and the fallen hood. After his/her/its death his/her/its body remained intact; his/her/its name was venerated, not only in Sicily and in Italy, but again in Spain, in Portugal and in the central and southern America; the Senate of Palermo chooses it like protector of their city, and now, it is celebrated in the entire church, God who exalts the humble to fanatic on earth this poor Negro slave to it - over of the kings and that will say his/her/its glory in the celestial kingdom! To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1 p.170-173

Set 1 - April 04, 1682-1744
Blissful Marie-Anne Crescence Hoss,vierge o.f.s. (1682-1744)

Anne Hoss spent its life in reports with the invisible world that were almost as frequent that those that she had with the terrestrial world. Born in Kaufbeuren, in Bavaria, October 20, 1682, the first time that she/it was encouraged of the child's apparition - Jesus, she/it was taking his/her/its snack and she/it was so young that she/it doesn't even suspect of what can be The one that comes to visit it and she/it invites it well merely to share his/her/its meal.

Set 1 - April 07, 1309-1404
Blissful Guillaume Of Sicily, o.f.s hermit. (1309-1404)

It is a fact that the society of the men weakens strengths and disperses them. Nothing big doesn't operate itself without the help of the silence, of the isolation, of the solitude; the holiness especially, this big Suvre par excellence, has need of it that is why all saints searched for the solitude and the silence, and some among them even quit nearly all trade with the humans; the Blissful Guillaume was one of those - there.
Born in Noto, in Sicily, of a noble family, he/it followed the career of the weapons first. One day, to hunt, he/it saved his/its master, the king of Sicily, Frédéric, of the attack of an enormous boar, but he/it was he - even severely injured by the furious animal. One even thought that he/it would lose life and him received the last sacraments; he/it yet came back from it, thanks to Agathe saint, manager of the city of Catania, where he/it agonized, the dear martyrdom appeared to him, heals it and says to him: Serve the Kings of the kings "henceforth. "

Guillaume obeys, tells adieu to king Frédéric, taken the dress of the Third Order, and retired in a narrow cell, hidden to the bottom of a wood, to some distance of Noto. There he/it served God in the prayer, the eves and austerities, the vegetables of a small garden that he/it cultivated, and the grants coming from the charity of the supporters were sufficient to its interview. Although he/it avoided the most possible the contact of the world, he/it received however with charity those that came to him, to look for advice or consolation, visited the poor people and the patients and attended them of all his/her/its power. As once the Fathers of the desert, he/it paid a visit from time to time to his/her/its mate of penitence: the Blissful Conrad of Pleasure, who had fixed his/her/its home in the underground cave of Pizzoni, to one mile of Noto; the two saints prayed together and conversed of God's things; in an opportunity they passed even so an entire fast without taking no material food.

A delicious oasis had been preserved by God to charm the desert of the Blissful Guillaume; it is a chapel neighboring of his/her/its cell, and dedicated to Notre-Dame of mercy, whose care was confided to him. He/it reached the age of 95 years thus, he/it had passed 70 of them in the rigors of the penitence, far from the men, but very near of God. Of themselves, the bells of the vicinity announced its blessed death, April 4, 1404. One invokes this blessed for the recovery of the hernias and to get the cessation of the sécheresse.Tirer Fleures Franciscan Vol.1. p. 177-179

Set 1 - April 08, +1606
Julian blessed Of Saint-Augustin, f. convers (+1606)

While Calvin's heresy seduced so many souls during the XVIe century, a French gentleman of the region of Toulouse, André Martinet, wanting to all price to protect his/her/its faith, abandoned his/her/its fortune and his/her/its homeland and won the Catholic Espagne.Dieu blesses his/her/its sacrifice, it met in Médina-Celi, in Castile, at the currier to the service of which it had committed, the one that was the virtuous companion of his/her/its life and it became the father of the Julian blessed of Augustin saint, who was the eldest of his/her/its children.

Since the awakening of his/her/its reason, Julian was all to God; in the church, serving the Mass with fidelity and a piety worthy of the angels, he/it triumphed constantly to this impressionable age of the human respect while resisting with courage the gibes of his/her/its friends that ridiculed his/her/its too big devotion, and during his/her/its life he/it knew the base actions of conscience never. Wanting to all price to escape the dangers of the world, him résolut to kiss the religious life; two times he/it presented himself/itself at the Minor Brothers, two times he/it donned the holy dress and two times he/it was sent back of the novitiate and was rejected in the world that he/it wanted to leave so much; he/it delivered himself/itself, indeed, to such austerities that his/her/its superior, thinking to have business to an excited and missing mind of balance persuaded themselves that he/it was not called to the religious life. Our blessed supported all these tests with humility, resignation and courage, he prayed, mortified itself, and made a third tentative that finally succeeds, he arrived to the solemn profession.

Designated like collection taker he/it loved this load, because she/it was often for him a source of contempt and even of abuse; perfects some obedient, when, to his/her/its departure for a tour of quest, his/her/its superior fixed him the date of the return, nor rain, nor snow, nor the contempts or some other obstacle would not have made it miss to the obedience. He/it was always in prayers; to the church, in the streets, on the places public or in full country, his/her/its soul didn't stop conversing with Jesus. One day, collecting at the country, he/it had received some chickens for the patients of the convent; wanting to pray, he/it deposited the cage, opened it and let go the fowls in liberty; his/her/its finished prayer he/it stands up and tells a high voice: My brothers, let's leave, it is getting late", And the chickens to run on the field, and to enter in the cage without he/it didn't miss one only.

He/it liked his/its neighbor in God and wanted the salute of all; having met, in an opportunity, of the young people who danced, the good Brother approaches d57;eux and exhort them to quit this entertainment of which he shows them the dangers; he invites them to go rather with him to the church; as it was necessary to wait for himself of it, his/her/its words and his/her/its invitation are received with laughters of mockeries. "Since you don't want to hear my words, tells them God's servant, with simplicity, I would find the listeners who will listen me gladly well. "and in true son of François saint, he/it makes calls to the birds; these come in big number, makes circle around him and listen it silently; having finished, he/it asks God to bless them and dismiss them. Amazed and confused, the young libertines disperse themselves, and publish the miracle of which they were the witnesses everywhere. The Julian blessed finished his terrestrial career April 8, 1606, he was a humble and a simple, but he was also a saint, and the whole city of Alcala, including the professors of the famous University, the nobility and the clergy came during eighteen days to venerate his/her/its deadly remains before she was confided to the earth. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p.179-182

Set Flight 1 - April 09 + 1322
Blissful Thomas Of Tolentino, priest, o.f.m martyrs. (+1322)

Intended to the faraway missions, the blissful Thomas evangelized Armenia and the Tartarie where he converts big number of infidels, then he won China and arrived in Peking where already numerous Christendoms were established by the Sons of François saint but the crop was too abundant for the small number d57;ouvriers, and the Blessed came back to Rome to expose to the Saint Father the state of the missions, the operated marvels and the big shortage of apostolic harvesters.

The Pope was delighted and at the same time sorry; seven religious of the order of Saint-François chosen by the general Minister among the more doctes and most zealous, were donned of the Episcopal character to be sent in China, with mission to consecrate the Father Jean of Montcorvin archbishop of Peking then named Cambalek and to place then at his/her/its disposal, Thomas of Tolentino took the path of China accompanied by other Minor Brothers then; the new archbishop sent it in The Indoustan and it is there that he finished his/its life by a glorious martyrdom.

He/it received the death by the sword, after having confessed Christ's faith, as on the knees, and the elevated hands skywards, he/it recommended his/its soul to the a lot of Saint-Virgin; his/her/its three mates were associated to his triumph; the Brother Jacques of Padua, first thrown in an inferno, rented God in the middle of the flames, and not having been reached by fire was immolated by the sword;, the Brother Pierre of Siena was decapitated, and the Brother Démétrius of Georgia will expiate in the middle of the most awful torments.

The glorious death of these four disciples of François saint took place in the city of Tamma, April 9, 1322; their bodies were buried by the Christian and it operated himself/itself many miracles in their tomb. Some years after, the Blissful Odoric of Pordenone, being of passage in this country, exhumed their precious rests and transported them in Zaïton, city of India where was a convent of the order. The chief of the blissful Thomas was transported in Italy and was placed in the church of the Franciscans of Tolentino, his/her/its homeland; from then on, this glorious martyr began to be honored publicly by the supporters; in 1451, the inhabitants of Tolentino chose it like boss and protective, finally Magpie VII, March 15, 1809, confirmed this blessed's cult that gave to the Christ the testimony of his/her/its blood after having during thirty years worked of all his/her/its strengths to make to know and to like his/her/its Name. To pull Flowers Franciscans Flight. 1 p. 184-186

Set 1 - April 12, 1411-1495
Blissful Marc Of Bologna, priest o.f.m. (1405-1479)

The blissful Marc of Bologna was one of the columns of the seraphic order; it is largely, thanks to him, that the Franciscan ideal was maintained, and it is rightfully that it has his/its place next to the Bernardins of Siena, of the Jack of Capistrans and the Jacques of the Marche; it was as fully associated in the Suvreses and to the works that these big saints undertook for God's honor, the diffusion of his/her/its reign and the good of his/her/its Church.

Born of a senatorial family, he/it had in sharing of brightness natural and supernatural grants; temperament happy, big generosity of cSur, quick and precocious intelligence, at the same time as a big inclination toward the piety. He/it studied with success the beautiful letters, philosophy, the civil law and canonical to the university of his/her/its native city that was one of the first of the world; unique heir of a famous name and an immense fortune, he/it had before him a brilliant future; he/it despised all, he/it abandoned all to be entire to only God.

At the age of twenty-six years, he/it entered at the Franciscans of Bologna. The Blissful Jacques of Primadizzi, his/her/its compatriot, formed it to the religious virtues; holy Bernardin of Siena was his/her/its master in the sacred sciences, also so many graces of God were not vain in his/her/its soul. He/it didn't have tent years that he/it was sent like guard in Monte-Colombo, venerable place where Notre-Seigneur had dictated to François saint his/her/its rule, then it was two times provincial, and followed to Jean saint of Capistran as general priest for the Observing cismontains and three times in succession, it was promoted to this high function. Everywhere, he/it introduces sages reforms, and applied to make refleurir the mind of François saint. Before the Pope Sixte IV and the cardinals collected, that, to bring the unit in the order, were about to take some measures likely to bring, in the branch of the Franciscan family that was confided to him, a bending of the discipline and a reduction of the primitive ideal, he/it interfered, and capable to bring the august assembly to enter in his/her/its views, he/it deposited to the Pontiff's feet the book of the rule and getting on the knees while crying, and the raised skywards arms, he/it exclaimed: OH my seraphic Father, defend yourselves - even your rule, since a poor person as me is it is not more capable to defend it."

The touched Consistory separated without taking decision and later, the Pope abandoned his project; the Blessed had saved to his family the privilege & laquo of the Very High Poverty. But it was not only to the order that the Blissful Marc returned eminent services; the Pope Nicolas V, Calixte IIIS, Magpie IIS, and Paul II, just appreciators of the merit, had estimated to his/her/its value our blessed. His/her/its holiness, his/her/its goodwill for the interests of the Church, his/her/its particular tact in the most difficult business made him fill missions of the highest importance and that testify on behalf of the Christ's priests most complete confidence to his/her/its égard.Émule of the big preachers of his/her/its time, it fought with success relates the pagan reminiscences of this XVe century where it lived; preaching against the luxury, the cupidity, the hates, the decadent mSurs; it renewed the Christian society, returned him something of the purity, of the simplicity of the first time. He/it defended the Christian people against wear and the rapacity of the Jewish as instituting several pawnshops as the Franciscan charity had invented them and that one understood them in that time. Until the end of his/her/its life the Blissful Marc preached God's speech and expended much energy for the souls, and at the age of 74 years, April 15, 1479, he died on the breach. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p. 186-189

Set 1 - 12Avril 1411-1495
Blissful Angel Of Chivasso, priest o.f.m. (1411-1495)

As the Blissful Marc of Bologna, to which he/it followed as general priest of the order, Angel of Chivasso had made big face in the world; he had possessed the fortune there and had acquired the science; because he was a doctor believes some civil and canonical, as in theology; he had even been a senator. Become monk and priest, he/it was general priest of the observance until four times; author of a Sum of case of conscience, he/it had the grant of divination of the souls, the oratory to attract them and a singular grant to direct them; it was finally a man to that nothing human is not foreign, and it was a saint.

He/it was the confessor plain of the duke of Savoie, Charles Ier; he/it maintained some reports with Catherine saint of Genoa that wanted to benefit from his/her/its advice, he/it stopped on a fatal slope the countess Paule Gambara Costa; of a worldly forgetful of God, he/it made a saint of it. To save the sinners, the blissful Angel didn't save anything for them, he asked the night, he preached the day, for them he imposed himself/itself of rough penitences, he offered all his/her/its fatigues. The poor people were his/her/its friends, he/it visited them in the hospitals, in their homes; in their favor, he/it often went as far as begging to him, the former patrician, as one among them; to subtract them to the usurers. he/it used his/its talents to develop and to strengthen the mounts-of-mercy, this thing so beneficent to the poor people during the means ages.

Considering the Third Order of Saint-François as one of the most efficient means of sanctification for the souls, he/it didn't stop working to his/her/its diffusion within Christian people. "Oh very holy rule, he/it exclaimed talking of the Third Order, that they are guilty those that despise you! Oh very perfect rule, that they are blind, those that criticize you! Oh rule, source of good, what punishment deserves those that whisper against your prescriptions! Lazy and neglectful, that make yourselves therefore? Why differ, that wait yourselves? "and he/it concluded while saying: There is not anybody, that, if he/it cannot be part of the first or the second Order of François saint, can enter the less in the third and deserve the sort that the peace and God's mercy rest on him. "

In two circumstances, the blissful Angel was charged by the Sovereign - Pontiff of important missions. As Mahomet II seized Otrante and threatened Italy, Sixte IV had resort to him to preach the crusade against the Turks, as apostolic nuncio. Many warriors answer the ardent speech of the saint appelant to the holy war and enroll himself under the standard of the cross; by it the Christendom was saved in Europe. Eleven years later, Innocent VIII confides him the difficult mission to evangelize the heretics who infested their doctrines the mountains of Piedmont and the Savoie. In spite of his/her/its eighty years, he/it undertakes this apostolate with courage and has happiness to bring back in the heart of the church a multitude of stray. He/it spent the last two years of his/her/its life in the contemplation and died April 11, 1495; he/it was 84 years old. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s 186-189

Set 1 - April 16, 11209

November 20, 1770, in the basilica of foundation, a poor beggar made himself/itself affiliate to the archi-confraternity of Cord of François saint, and April 16, 1783 this same beggar died of weariness in the eternal City. This poor saint was Benoît-Joseph Labre; born in Amettes, in the diocese of Boulogne, in France, he had tried several times the religious life, either among the Carthusians, either at the Trappisteses, and every time in vain; he had been sent back because of the scruples and anguishes that tortured it.

Then, approved by his/her/its confessor and advanced by an intimate strength, he/it had wandered of sanctuary in sanctuary, the cSur to God, deprive all in this world. He/it browsed Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, clothed of a tunic and a scapular, girt on of a rope, with a bag suspended to his/her/its shoulders and containing all his/her/its riches: Christ's imitation, the New Will, and the Breviary that he/it recited every day without ever there to miss, structural on his/her/its chest a crucifix; to his/her/its neck a rosary, in his/her/its hands a rosary; he/it visited all famous sanctuaries thus and prayed before the tombs of the saints. Where he/it passed, one took it soon for a mad, and the children, sometimes same the grown-ups abused it, throwing him garbage and stones; soon for a malefactor, and one stopped it, and one threw it in jail; actually, it was a saint and a big saint; an invalid asked him one day how it was necessary to like God: "It is necessary for it three united cSurs in one only, answered Benoît; a cSur that either only love and tenderness for God, a cSur of charity and goodwill for the neighbor; and a cSur of penitence and hate for oneself. '
Here it is how one of his/her/its confessors, the Father Temple speaks of him, and his/her/its testimony is the summary of all others: "Everything that I solicit you, had told him the saint, it is that you gave to me, if you judge it good, the permission to follow my usual régime.

__Mais what is your régime! inquires the religious.
__J'ai custom, said Benoît to satisfy me of what I am offered spontaneously by charity.
__Et if one doesn't offer you anything!
__Il has the door of the convents there.
__Mais if one doesn't make distribution of supplies there!
__Il has the peelings that one throws by the windows there, and where I find some peels of vegetables and fruits spoiled, of which I eat enough to sustain me until the following day.
__Mais finally if you don't find these remnants, want to tempt you God and to oblige it to the miracle!
__Je goes then, continue the Blessed, along the hedges and paths where I find the roots, of the herbs and the water of the ditches.
__Un such kind of existence has it summer approved by your directors!
__Oui and no, answered Benoît, according to God's inspiration, and I always obeyed to them. "
The religious asked Benoît then to make his/her/its confession; the saint made it with a devotion and a devotion admirable.
"He/it even amplified the formula, wrote the P.Temple, adding some expressions d57;une incredible energy; he/it said himself/itself resolute to die in the Catholic faith and would be all ready to spill his/her/its blood, if it was necessary, to return some testimony, and I saw that while accentuating as he/it made it, he/it was quite penetrated and convinced. He/it recited the Confiteor then, but with the humility of a criminal charged of mistakes; so that believer that he/it had the fever, I wanted to put back the confession.
__Je is not sick, says the penitent, but how want yourselves that I don't tremble! I offended God !70 so much; "

And he/it declared guilty of an our ingratitude towards God, always taking this accusation, without specifying on no divine or ecclesiastical precept. The Penitentiary started with pressing it a little and finally declare to him that it didn't know how to examine itself.
"I am going to make myself your exam, he/it says, answer me with sincerity by yes or by no. "He/it interrogated it, and noted that this young man who told itself big sinner, had not even committed a venial sin.

"My admiration, my stupor increased, says the P.Temple, as I noted the sovereign gentleness of this soul, and this incomparable assembly of the most extraordinary virtues. However, I didn't want to sit my judgment again, and, to go further, while mingling words of encouragement to the reprimands and to uncouthness, I asked him, s57; he/it had ever made a general confession; on his/her/its affirmative answer, I added that probably, he/it had made it a little" to the engrossment" and without distinguishing well and to specify the things, as well as he/it suits a good Catholic. I tell to him therefore that I was going to try to make penetrate it backward, in the folds of his/her/its conscience in order to see if he/it had walked well of the the ways of the Lord, and in the exact and perfect observation of the divine law. "

They entered then in a meticulous exam and argued of life d57;un pilgrim since his/her/its most tender childhood, and the confessor was touched deeply of one so big marvel of the grace, in a man as young, far from his/her/its family and his/her/its homeland, poor, begging, full of misery, exposed to all temptations,. "I rented and blessed God, written the penitentiary, and, while hearing this admirable confession, I could not keep my tears. Not finding matter to absolution in this magazine of a whole life, the confessor sent back the penitent with the blessing, he invited it besides to come back some days later, and enjoined to him not to leave Lorette without his/her/its assent.

The P. Temple wanted to have indeed with his/her/its penitent of the spiritual conferences on the manner of which it behaved in the practice of the Christian virtues. These conferences that lasted several days were a real torment for the Blessed who feared of makes know his/her/its high virtues. The penitentiary must resort to reach his/her/its goal to all industries. Soon, he/it formulated his/its questions in an indirect manner, soon he/it donned them of a severity appearance, and of accusation. Finally, he/it imposed to his/her/its penitent, in the name of the obedience, the obligation to answer. "Out of these pickets interviews, the P.Temple could not hide its admiration, He named Benoît-Joseph a" terrestrial angel" and a celestial man"; him l57;appelait by turns a holy Alexis and a holy Louis of Gonzague. To express, he/it has written, of what charity devotion, I saw to burn God's servant, me then to find of other terms that those same of Bonaventure saint about our seraphic Father holy François of foundation. "To the only name of the divine love, he/it stood, enlivened and ignited, and all fibers of his/her/its cSur resounded as the ropes of the lyre under the bow. "Makes marvelous and that impressed the P.Temple deeply: this agreement of a soul perfectly united to his/her/its God expressing itself/themselves in the own words that holy Bonaventure put in the mouth of François saint. This is how this religious that having spoken of the Savior's wounds, Benoît-Joseph exclaimed as taken away by a sudden transportation: "Oh wounds capable to wound hearts of stone and to inflame souls of glace!70 infallibly; "
The saint's confidence in this God of goodness and mercy was inexplicable: "God is so good, had - him custom to say, that to get him the good of our soul, and even all species of very terrestrial, so long as he can serve to our spiritual advantage, he is sufficient to ask him.
__ And that would make yourselves, asked him for the P.Temple, if an angel announced you that your name has been scratched or is not written down to the book of life!
__Je would keep the confidence, answered the saint, hoping immutably that anything of that that is not necessary to my salute can be refused me by the one that made so much and suffered so much for me "So, he possessed the science of the saints in depth that the world cannot reveal, the poor beggar!

God had given him himself this high teaching and had illuminated this soul. And is not this the language of the saints that Benoît-Joseph held when he answered the P.Temple, which asked him what were his/her/its feelings with regard to those that mistreat it:
"I look at them as friends, I thank God of it and I ask for grace for them, since Christ the neat. "
"His/her/its patience was marvelous, declare the penitentiary; I learned that it endured with an air of contentment the injuries, the calumnies and all sorts of atrocities, as far as praying urgently, those that had some considerations towards it so that they don't oppose those calumniated it to him or the frappaient70;

"For me, he/it continues, when a God servant so poor, if exhausted, and all at once so happy, but of a celestial joy after have been warned of his/her/its mind by means of our conferences, he/it appeared me to recognize in him the portrait most perfect of Crucified it, and it because he/it always had in the mind this divine copy that the eternal Father condescended to propose to our imitation 70; "

The Blessed's silence was more or less perpetual, it only spoke to God and didn't have any conversation with the men. Hardly so in one whole month, one heard it to utter himself some words; he/it limited himself/itself to answer the questions and very briefly, attentive to not to avoid the law of the silence that by the humility or by charity. This big hermit only had God for society, avoiding the tumult of the places, the dissipation of the walks, the spectacle of the feasts so frequent in Rome, living as in the depth of a desert, in the middle of a big city lived by a big number of étrangèrs and offering the most mobile picture, the most changing, the most varied. His/her/its abnegation was absolution: private of all, detached of all, unknown of all men, he/it didn't want any riches that the a lot of evangelical poverty, of pleasure that the exercises of penitence, of distractions that rubbish and the contempt.

And of what rigor was this poverty! "Benoît-Joseph didn't possess anything, didn't pull no help of his/her/its family, to which his/her/its existence was ignored, didn't ask for anything, only receiving with humility what one gave to him, distributing to the other poor people with a generous charity everything that was not strictly necessary to the needs of the moment; exposition to the vicissitudes of the seasons, without defense against the cold weather of the winter and the heats of the summer, because his/her/its clothes were in shred, having for lodging that a reduced inconvenient and unhealthy, the saint didn't move back from any austerity; to these deprivations, these rigors, this destitution of all things, Benoît - Joseph joined the frequent fastings; the night he flogged himself/itself cruelly; when he spread on the earth to take some rest, he frequently stood up to get in prayer, in spite of the quick pains that he caused this attitude in the state of fatigue weakness where he had fallen.

He/it didn't only search for the physical sufferings, he/it accepted full cSur the humiliations of poverty and the penitence, his/her/its humility had placed it in the class of the big sinners; has why it had chosen the opprobrium and the contempt for his/her/its sharing, there is the principle of an extraordinary penitence, that it continues until the death, here is why it hid in the anonymous crowd of the beggars, why it wanted to be according to words of "Paul saint, rubbish and the balayure of the world ", why the rags that hardly covered it took the place of clothes, why it seemed to have wanted to put between it and the other men a repulsive gate, why it disfigured the features of a naturally appealing, nice and soft face under an abject and repugnant outside, why finally, greedy of penitence and ignominy, it quit to the sting of bugs repels his/her/its humiliated body.

If he/it had limited himself/itself to make use of a rough cilice, his/her/its merit had been definitely very big by this exercise of penitence, but being donned itself/themselves day and night of this species of living cilice, animate by the multitude of bugs of which it was covered, it endured a well more big and a lot crueller penitence by the continual torment of their stings, at the same time as it practiced the deepest humility, because although it was of a honest birth and that it had received a tidy education, it didn't blush to appear the smuttiest among the troops of the beggars and to expose itself/themselves to the contempt of the world.

One will probably object that the holiness must be accompanied so much by the cleanliness interior that outside and that one must not approve the Blessed's carelessness. One will say more that an off-putting outside can only make odious the very devotion;, one won't fail to mention number of saints that had the cleanliness in sharing. All it is true, but he/it is not less certain than several famous saints of it acted differently, and that the Church doesn't have less admired like heroic acts of such victories taken back on oneself of them. So the wisdom of the Cross will always appear madness to the worldly wisdom; can - to be so extraordinary because, placed to one time of laxity and corruption, we are hardly was some to know the needs of our century and the kind of instruction that invite him. Ever maybe God he/it doesn't have as highly affirmed his/her/its right to confound the sages parce that appears insane in this world, that the day where he/it raised in front of the XVII century, pleasure-seeker, incredulous and superb this contrary beggar, this vagabond without lodging that dies exhausted of penitences only aged of 35 years. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p. 194-204


Set 1 - April 18, 1534-1602
Blissful André Hibernon, f. o.f.m convers. (15334-1602)

André belonged to a noble and ancient family of Carthagena that in a state neighboring of the indigence had thrown of the fortune reverses. He/it went his/its youth by Valencia at one his/her/its uncles; during this stay, to the practice of duties of the Christian life he/it joined a big love for work, but in the hope to form a dowry to his/her/its sSur, he/it didn't move back from any labor. Aged of twenty years he/it returned to his/its native city, carrying away with him the fruit of his/her/its saving laboriously accumulated and he/it already enjoyed the pleasure and the surprise that he/it was going to cause to his/her/its sSur, when he/it fell between the hands of the thieves that descended it and reduced it to bring some regrets only to his/her/its dear family. This laborious accident for his/her/its cSur, made it go back deeply in himself; containing the whole nothing of the terrestrial goods, he/it donned the dress of the Minor Brothers, and without worrying about the pains nor obstacles, the look fixed on the Savior's cross, he/it entered boldly in the way of the humility and the suffering. The hard and humblest works of the convent were his/her/its sharing of predilection; his/her/its happiness was to ask for alms in the streets and to carry on his/her/its back the fruit of his/her/its quests, as also to replace his/her/its brothers in the laborious and humiliating functions.

Of this big contempt of himself, was born for the Blessed an insatiable hunger of austerities: as he/it submitted to rigorous fastings, he/it inflicted himself/itself of bloody disciplines, carried under his/her/its clothes a sort of cilice that he/it had shaped himself with rudely joined skewers of iron. He/it cultivated poverty until the excess; having the load of the refectory, he/it collected the crumbs with the biggest care, put them to soak then in water, made them then cook again: it was there his/her/its bread his. The poor people found in him a brother and a friend sympathizes, that comforted them, came as far as possible in help to their indigence and recommended them to the charitable people whose fortune could implore to its insufficiency.

What the preachers and confessors could not get, he/it got it by his/her/its prayers and his/her/its penitences. To a to stretch devotion towards the mystery of the Cross and the one of the Tabernacle, he/it joined a filial attachment towards the a lot of Saint-Virgin. He/it was sometimes helped by the angels in works; he/it predicts the day of his/her/its death in advance four years; it was April 18, 1602. For the blissful André as for so many others, l57;épreuve had been a big kindness. To pull Flowers Franciscans Flight. 1. p.204-207

Set 1 - 19Avril 1234-1289
Blissful Conrad of Ascoli, priest o.f.m. (1234-1289)

Since the age of seven years, Conrad became narrow friends with a child of his/her/its age of Jérôme's name, his/her/its compatriot, who had to become pope under the name of Nicolas IV and this friendship lasted as much as his/her/its life. They grew together, entered together at the Minor Brothers where they made themselves notice by their science and their piety. One day one lives the small Conrad on the knees before his/her/its mate, and as one asked him why these marks of reverence: "Ah! he/it answered, it is that I see in his/her/its hands the keys of the sky ", predicting the supreme power that he/it would receive one day thus. Our blessed was first professor of theology in Rome, then he went to Africa where, as missionary, he evangelized various regions of the Lybie; thanks to his/her/its holiness, to his/her/its miracles, to the extraordinary fatigues that he imposed himself/itself, to his/her/its unceasing shoppings, he converts to the Christianity of the thousands of souls of pagans, and, of this fact, he had to support one thousand tribulations on behalf of the demons, that during this period of his/her/its life, were going up to hit continually; but by his/her/its prayers, he come victorious out of these attacks of the minds of darkness.

In the name of the adorable Trinidad that he/it always preached, he/it returned health to the patients, healed the paralytics, put in flight the demons and even revived two deaths. To the goodwill of the apostles, the blissful Conrad joined the penitence of the anchorites: his/her/its sleep that it took on a board was short, his/her/its coarse dress, it always walked barefoot, only took bread and water four times the week; two other days were dedicated by numerous prayers to the delivery of the souls of the purgatory, and the angels announced to him that numerous were the poor souls that had to him the delivery or the relief.

His/her/its meditations were especially about the Savior's passion, and in one day of Friday-Saint, the Redeemer of the world condescended to appear to him as he was in front of Pilate and the Jewish people, the torn body and bloody and the head crowned of thorns. Recalled in Europe in the middle of a fruitful apostolate he/it was put by the pope Nicolas III in charge of negotiating the peace between the kings of France and Spain, then to be going to profess the theology in Paris. By his/her/its knowledge and his/her/its oratory, he/it attracted the admiration; but he/it spent the hours that let him free the professorship and the predication, to visit the patients in the hospitals and he/it put to their service all treasures of tenderness and compassion that were in his/her/its soul. It is whereas his/her/its old Jérôme friend of Ascoli was promoted to the government of the church; knowing Conrad's merit, he reminded it in Rome, wanting to create it cardinal and to make his/her/its intimate adviser of it; but our saint had asked God to subtract it to honors and God heard it; he died while passing to Ascoli, on the path of the return;, the Very - High, according to his/her/its prayer, had delivered it of the human glory, but to give him in exchange the one of his/her/its paradise to Pull Flowers Fraciscaines Vol.1 p. 207-207

Set 1 - April 22, 1251-1322

Already two inhabitants of foundation, seduced by the ideal of François saint, had given themselves the perfect life: Bernard of Quintavalle and the Pierre canon of Catania, when one of their compatriots s57;est tells himself:

"Why would not I make myself also as these two Brothers, and why I would not go me also to join me to these insane, who have the madness to prefer goods of the sky to those of the earth"? And Gilles, it was his/her/its name, although rich, abandoned his/her/its goods, and was going to ask his/her/its glorious compatriot for the dress of poverty. The prominent feature of his/her/its character was his/her/its charming simplicity and the blissful Poverello loved it a lot for this quality; he imagined that the high holiness was only accessible to the big scientists and that only the big were able to s57;approcher of God; it is why it admired holy Bonaventure, and it envied him his/her/its immense science that allowed him to go up high so in the divine charity, but when the seraphic doctor had undeceived it; "Hey! What, said Aegis, an ignoramus can like God as much as the most scholarly doctor? Definitely, answered holy Bonaventure, even the last and most ignorant of the women. "and Aegis, intoxicated of joy, short to the garden and gets to shout over the defensive walls: "Oh poor and ignorant women, rejoice yourselves, because you can like God as much and more that the Brother Bonaventure." Aegis had not studied, but it had a master who gave him of big lights, to such point that the pope and the cardinals didn't disdain to come to consult it: this Mr. was the mind - Saint.

One day, he/it sees to come to him a famous scientist of Saint's order - Dominique, tormented by a doubt on Marie's virginity; Aegis goes to the front of it, and without waiting to be interrogated, him while hitting the earth of the tip of his/her/its stick: "Oh my brother, She/it is Virgin, before the divine childbirth! To the same instant a magnificent lily leaves the earth. Hitting soil again, he/it adds: "she/it is Virgin in his/her/its childbirth ", and a second lily appears next to the first; a third time, it hits again and exclaim: "She/it is virgin after his/her/its childbirth ", and another vivid lily of whiteness appears before them; one guesses that in presence of such arguments, the theologian's doubts disappeared forever.

Saint Louis, king of France, having come in dresses of pilgrim to visit the tomb of François saint had stopped in Pérouse where was the Blissful Brother Aegis, and without making itself/themselves know asked to speak to him. Aegis learned by a revelation that this pilgrim was merely the king of France and went at the parlor; as soon as they were in presence, and as if they had been bound by the oldest and narrowest friendship, the two saints threw themselves in the arms one of the other, fell on the knees, remained thus a long time without word to say, then they separated without having exchanged only one speech. As one blamed him for this lack of civility with regard to one so big prince, Aegis answered: "The human language is incapable to express God's secrets, it is why we didn't speak, but know, my brothers, that the king left me satisfied, and the cSur filled of consolation." And God's love constantly grows and without meeting obstacles in this simple and faithful sSur, and like another Nathanaëlle, blessed Aegis, consumed of love of God, entered in the blissful eternity April 23, 1262.
The Flowers Franciscan Série1s page 212-216

set 1 - April 24, 1577-1622
Faithful Saint Of Sigmaringen, priest, martyr, o.f.m. cape. (1577-1622)

This holy martyr only lived ten years in the religious life; born in a small city of Swabia, he made his/its studies of Right in Fribourg and enrolled then among the lawyers of Colmar, in Alsace, at the age of 35 years, entered at the Brothers Minor Capucins.Dèses the beginning he was a model in the religious, and immediately allowed life to the ministration and was named guard. His/her/its God's love made him want to pour his/her/its blood for it and every day in his/her/its prayers, it asked the Virgin Saint for the grace of the martyrdom; it was granted.

Sent in Switzerland by the Sacred Community of the Propaganda, he/it took to entire to the conversion of the Calvinist of which this country was the center. During this hard apostolate, he/it didn't move back from fatigue, nor before the persecutions or the threats of death; he/it used his/her/its talent of lawyer and his/her/its apostle's goodwill to make shine the Christian truth in all his/her/its splendor, to the eyes of the blind unhappy crowds by the heresy. Also his/her/its successes were considerable, what irritated until the frenzy of obstinate delinquents and bad faith.

One day that he/it preached in the church of Rage, a troop of heretics in weapons made irruption in the holy place, and the saint was added to kiss Calvin's doctrine. He/it "ever, answered, with calmness, I came here, no to kiss the heresy, but to fight it. Then, these frantic throw himself on him, hit it with rage, and immolate it to some steps of the place where the divine Mr. himself sacrifices itself every day for us. So died gloriously April 24, 1622, the first martyr of the Community of the Propaganda; he/it was aged of 45 years to Pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1 p. 216-217

Set April 27, +1490 1
Blissful Jacques Of Ilyrie, F. Convers o.f.m. (+1490)

At the Minor Brothers where he/it entered, the blissful Jacques received cook's load; there, before the fire of his/her/its furnaces, he thought a thousand times about the flames more terrifying of the hell, and this meditation stimulated in it a generosity and didn't know any boundary-marks soon more. But it was not only the thought of the eternal pains that made it heroic in God's service; this God, he/it liked it of all his/her/its soul, his/her/its love consumed all his/her/its being. If each of the saints, indeed, has a physiognomy that belongs them however in essence, all, without exception, liked God until the heroism, it is there milks them common, it is there the universal foundation of all holiness, the devotion of love of which the soul of the blissful Jacques was filled, resulting in one obscure life and all hidden with Christ in God, by an ardent and continual prayer, where while pouring the overflow of his/her/its soul, it scorched it at the same time of new ardors. His/her/its devotion to Marie without which the one of Jesus is incomplete, was some him, her also, admirable; during his/her/its stay to the convent of Conversano, he/it retired every evening in an underground cave dedicated to God's Mother, and after being inflicted itself/themselves a rough discipline, he/it passed more or less all night long to pray.

God answered his servant while raising it to one sublime degree of contemplation and discovered him the depths of the mysteries of the faith; him him départit the prophetic lights, and one knew it around him; also, when he was going to ask for alms, the mothers presented him their sick children and asked him his/her/its opinion: "Go, he/it told one, your child will heal", and the touch to the forehead, he returned him health, to the other Your son is on the contrary" mature for the sky, he is going to go himself of it to paradise ". And the prediction achieved itself according to the speech of God's man. This Blessed sanctified himself/itself while preparing the meals of his/her/its brothers; he had given to the souls the money of his/her/its charity and his/her/its examples, and the Christ in reward had invited it to the eternal feast. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.1s. p 217-219

Set April 28 1 1161-1241
Blissful Luchésiuses / Blissful Bonadona First Tertiaire(e) (1161-1241)

Since some time, the Blissful François, whose soul full of goodwill wanted the salute and the sanctification from all over the world, meditated without his/her/its cSur the foundation of a third Order, intended to help in the way of the perfection the Christian, that their vocation kept in the middle of the world, when one day Luchésius presented itself to him.

Original of Poggi-Bonzi, in Tuscany, he/it was rich of goods of the earth and until has then, he/it had not thought a lot of goods of the eternity. Full of initiative and know-how, active and enterprising mind, Luchésisus had put its natural qualities to the service of his/her/its love of the riches, and he had succeeded fully in an united salting trade in an exchange office: he/it had become then cornhandler in bulk, and his/her/its business avaint prospered so that he/it even wondered s' he/it had not touched lightly the injustice. Giving up then to anguishes them of his/her/its conscience and dreading the attachment of his/her/its cSur, that he/it felt more and more in love of the love of goods of the world, he/it answered God's grace that solicited it heroically and stripped itself of all sound to have to enrich the poor people of it, only reserving a small field that he/it cultivated him - even and of which he/it shared the products with the needy persons. He/it went again farther; from this time, he/it started frequenting the hospitals to take care of the patients there, he/it even filled his/her/its home of it and it was not rare to see to bring it at home in enters two invalids that he/it sustained, while bending under the faix of a third that he/it was about his/its back.

One day that he/it was charged thus, he/it met a young man who started laughing at it: What singular burden you carry there, does he/it tell it, really don't feel yourselves that that is the devil that is seated on your back? _ No, did answer the saint all touched, that is Christ himself that I carry, because according to his/her/its speech, this that one makes for the least of his that is to himself that one makes it, and following this injury was the young man hit of muteness. Afraid, he/it asked for forgiveness God and to his/her/its servant and the speech was returned to him", Graces are returned to the Lord, it says then, and to you, Brother Luchésius, of me to have delivered a just punishment to have blasphemed God while abusing his/her/its poor people. Go in peace, said the Blessed, and stay up well henceforth to more to sin nor by speech, nor joint-stock of fear to attract again on you of worse punishment. "

However the convert's wife, Bonadonna saw with displeasure what she called her/its husband's madness; she also thought about his/her/its two children that he would let without heritage. One day that he/it had distributed to the poor people the whole bread of the house, as he/it arrived others, he/it asked his/its wife to give them something: "One now sees well, retort to him she/it annoyed, that your indiscreet fastings and your prolonged eves disturbed you the brain. Yours are not anything for you, you don't have a solicitude that for the strangers; forget yourselves therefore that all has been distributed and that he/it doesn't remain even a piece of bread for the family. Go look therefore for yourself of what to give to eat confidently to his/her/its insatiables.___ Allez on your side, took Luchésisus mildly, while thinking about The one that, with some breads and some fish feed the thousands of people. She/it obeys and found to his/her/its big stupefaction an abundant provision of bread; this miracle the convert, and the death of his/her/its children the detaching the earth again more, she/it gave herself/itself, her also, all to God; and it was from then on between her and his/her/its husband a heroic emulation in the practice of the Suvreses of charity and in the pursuit of the perfection. To pull Flowers Franciscans Flight 1. 219-224

Set 1 30Avril 1560-1625
Blissful Benoît Of Urbino Priest Capucin (1560-1625)

Let orphan since the childhood, Benoît had resort to Marie and implored it to hold him place of mother, and, of this day, the love of the a lot of Virgin Saint became as the clean character of his/her/its piety. Being beginner among the Capuchins, he/it was going to be sent back, because of his/her/its shaky health, but thanks to his/her/its prayer, the one that he/it had chosen for Mother, granted him with a miraculous promptness, the bodily strength necessary to the kind of life that he/it kissed. The prayer became quickly his/her/its usual occupation: "Grant me, Lord, he/it often repeated during his/her/its theological studies, the science that learns to know you, but especially, make me the grace to like you, because I don't want to know you that to like. "The Blessed preached the divine speech in Germany, where he especially fought with ardor Luther's heresy, in Italy where he collected abundant fruits of salute, among the small and the poor people.

As well in the middle of his/her/its apostolic labors that in the poor cell of his/her/its monastery, he/it remained everywhere the rigid observer of the rules and the least observances. His/her/its love of poverty was such, that it collected the envelopes of letters and the pieces of paper thrown to rubbish to write itself/themselves there sermon. After his/her/its death, he/it exhaled himself/itself of his/her/its body like an odor of myrrh and incense, God has wanted maybe by this prodigy to glorify the austere penitence and the fervid prayer that had occupied in a more or less continual way the life of his/her/its good servant. Flowers Franciscans Flight. 1 p.124

Set 1 30Avril 1786-1842
Blissful Benoît-Joseph Cottolengo, priest canon, o.f.s. (1786-1842)

"If you had the faith, only big like a grain of wild mustard, said Notre-Seigneur, you would transport some mountains. "Thanks to their deep faith, the saints often made maybe less extraordinary miracles that the one given by the divine Mr. as example, but whose results were more beneficent. For his/her/its part, the Blissful Benoît-Joseph Cottolengo operated, by his/her/its confidence in the Providence, of the charity prodigies and he relieved the poor humanity of a misery mountain.

Since his/her/its childhood, his/her/its piety attracted it toward the suffering Christ in the patients and in the poor people. One day that he/it measured the different pieces of the house carefully, his/her/its mother asked him for the reason of it: "I would like, says the child, to know how many beds one could put in this house, because I want to fill it of patients, when I will be big. "

This young predestined became priest, then canon of the collegiate of the a lot of Saint-Trinidad in Turin, and without other fund that his/her/its faith in God, he/it founded for the patients a shelter of four beds, that he/it transformed well quickly in a small hospital. Up to here nothing extraordinary, but the small hospital became" the small House of the Divine Providence" that can shelter the hundreds of invalids and patients. The holy canon became affiliated to the Third Order, founded several societies of devout men and virgins dedicated to God and his/her/its poor people. The Blissful Benoît-Joseph died, but of the top of the sky, he watched over his/its Suvre; one can distribute the patients in various groups, according to their miseries and their faculty to receive the doctrine that saves and currently, after three quarters of century, the small House of the Providence without one standby coin and without the least advertisement, give every day the spiritual and bodily food to more of seven miles souls. If the Christ doesn't let without reward a glass of cold water given for his/her/its love, what must not be the one of the Blissful Benoît-Joseph Cottolengo! The Pope Benoît XV beatified this charitable tertiary. Tertiary Flowers Franciscans Flight. 1 p.225-227