We know few things well on the Blessed Julian Cesarelli; Bartholomew of Pisa writing his/her/its beautiful books of the Conformities in 1395 is the first that speaks of it to us, and he makes a brief allusion there only:, to the convent of Valle he says, rest the body of the Julian Blessed, of which the famous city the feast each years. "We know than already in 1477, the population of Valle in Istrie, left from the former Austria, had it like boss and that his/her/its feast led to big solennités, in 17903, Magpie VI granted a plenary indulgence on the occasion of this feast.

One also knows that this Blessed was priest, untiring preacher, that his/her/its hot and convincing speech pulled number souls to the infernal gulf, and brought back the peace and the harmony at his/her/its contemporary qu of the quarrels politics divided.

The relics of the Julian Blessed first rested in the church of the Francis-Cainses of Valle; but the religious having abandoned this place, these saints rests were deposited in the parochial Church during the XIV e century. To the last century, the aforesaid church was rebuilt, and October 16, 1882, the precious body was solemn lement transferred in the new building, where it rests currently. The cult returned to the Julian Blessed of Valle, uninterrupted since the XIV2 century, was confirmed by the Pope Magpie X Tirer of the Set The Flowers Franciscans flight. 2 p 13 to 18

From then on, his/her/its life was all of Humility and penitence; but it was been able to - to be the obedience that shone at home of a quicker burst: the love of this virtue that distinguishes the truly religious inflamed it of goodwill for the least prescriptionsde Adjusts it. Having exercised five times Provincial's load, the Fathers of the Chapter held in Cracow in 1504, full of respect for his/her/its merits and recognition for the inappreciable that he/it had helped the religion and the order, implored it to choose itself/themselves the convent where he/it would please to him to live: ' My Fathers, tells them the holy old man, you want therefore that I live to my manner and according to my will! Forget - you that I committed until the death to observe my vœux of obedience" One named it then guardian in the city of Warsaw; it is there that he/it finished his/its days the following year: the Good Friday 1505, the Blessed preached the Passion, all of a sudden one lives it to rise the chair above, the face transfigured by the ecstasy; it was his/her/its last sermon, because he was seized d,une intense fever and one month after, the 4 but 1505, he expired.

He/it had in his/her/its youth wanted to dedicate his/her/its life ardently to the evangelism of the Tartar Kalmoukses, he/it was prevented some by the big duke of Russia; he/it delivered himself/itself then to the predication in his/her/its own country; his/her/its oratory, his/her/its holiness and the burst of his/her/its miracles produced a very immense at his/her/its compatriotes.Urbain VIIIS began his/her/its suit of canonization, Sixte XV awarded him Blessed's title and Benoît XIV dedicated this glorious title while approving his/her/its cult. To pull desFleurs Franciscan Vol.2s. 14-16

Vivaldo, born in Healthy Germiniano in Tuscany, made itself the male nurse Bienheureux leprous priest Bartholi his/her/its compatriot. During twenty years, he/it lavished to the one that one called" The Tuscan Job" the devotion and a saint's affection, and a mother's cares. Tertiary as him he/it helped it until his/her/its Blessed death that arrived December 12 of the year 1300.

After the death of his/her/its sick saint, Vivaldo retired in the forests of the vicinity of Montaïon where, during the last twenty years of his/her/its life, he led life érémitique, renewing the austere penitences of the former hermits of the Egyptian deserts and rising as them to the highest summits of the Christian asceticism. During twenty years this blessed searched for and liked his/her/its God in his/her/its suffering and unhappy members, during came other years he looked for it and unites to Him in the solitude: God rewarded his love while giving itself/themselves fully and eternally to him May 17, 1320, because it was the day where he finished his/its deadly career. Of them - same, the bells of MontaÏone started sounding to announce to the inhabitants of the vicinity the blissful death. One found the holy inanimate body, on the knees and joined hands, in the attitude of a fervid prayer; he/it was buried in the parochial church, and Léon X granted some indulgences to those that viendraiaent there pruier. His/her/its cult was approved definitely by Magpie X Tirer Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2 p.17-19

Already two flowers of holiness, that the Franciscan family asked as his had bloomed knew the sky of Spain when holy Pierre Régalât appeared: Saint Ferdinand and the Blissful Raymond Lulle; but all those belonged to the Third Order. Pierre Régalât was the first saint of the first Order in the Catholic kingdom. In that time the Spanish Miners recalled, by austerity and the holiness of their life, the veals bears of the seraphic Order to his/her/its dawn, because it was the time where Pierre of Villaclet spilled the reform inaugurated by Bernardin of Siena there and by Jean of Capistran. Since the age of ten years, Pierre Régalât, to satiate his/her/its thirst of sacrifices and love, wanted to get under the conduct of God's man, asking to be admitted in the Order and what showed well that he/it had to defeat a long resistance on behalf of his/her/its mère.Quand he/it had achieved his/its desire, he/it showed to God how much he/it liked it while sacrificing for him: his/her/its life was only an uninterrupted fasting to bread and to water, his/her/its gaunt body was only covered with a poor worn-out and covered dress of pieces, always naked feet it only agreed on the end of his/her/its life to carry the sandals and God on his/her/its side rewarded his/her/its love while granting him the ineffable interviews, during which it appeared like a seraph, his/her/its heart throwing some flames, his/her/its exalted head; a harms even, the inhabitants of the neighborhood, seeing some sheaves luminous escaping from the convent and believer has a fire ran to extinguish it; It was our knows delighted in ecstasy and enveloped of a supernatural clarity.

The miracles that God's friend operated during his life were in innumerable. Several times his/her/its coat served him of skiff to cross some rivers; it often happened to him to transport his/her/its mate of a strand thus to the other and same to beast of to manage it the sacraments, after having announced his/her/its arrival, whereas it was not waited per person.

So God seemed abandoned asset to saint Pierre Régalât his/her/its sovereign power, it is that this last had first made him the total grant of himself, and if his/her/its life is only a long continuation of prodigies, it is that it was admirable of virtues, fruits of his/her/its ardent love. As the Divine Mr. and to his/her/its continuation, he/it carried every day his/her/its cross, as Him, he/it was poor, admirable of patience in the injuries and the calumnies that didn't miss to him; he/it liked it, of a particular way, in the lepers, these poor wretches that the faith of the Middle Ages held for sacred, because the Christ in the Saints Letters had been compared them; he kissed them, took care of them with an ineffable tenderness; him also, some during to the non beloved love, had felt his/her/its eyes to become like two fountains of tears, and these tears he poured them again more abundant when he celebrated the holy mysteries of God's big love for the man. Before dying he/it had asked his/its superior to read to make the charity of a poor dress and it is while whispering the last words of Son of God in cross: "between your hands, Lord, I put back my soul ", that he/it expired, March 31, 1456, he/it was 66 years old. His/her/its holy body first rested in the common cemetery of the brothers, but by the cares of His/her/its Catholic Majesty queen Élisabeth, it was exhumed exempt of corruption and was put aside in a rich tomb. XI innocent beatified it and Benoît XIV June 29, 1746 wrote down his/her/its name to the catalog of the Saints. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2 p. 18 to 21

In 1336, one pulled it from his/her/its glorious obscurity; king Philippe VI of are Worth had just finished the monastery of Moncel started with his/her/its Philippe ancestor the Bel, she/it was sent there and chosen like abbess. His/her/its government lasted eight years during which his/her/its high holiness attracted number of souls of the most famous nobility, that, formed by it, went up to his/her/its continuation until the sublimate summits. The Queen of France herself, Jeanne, woman Philippe VI, liked to come frequently retremper his/her/its soul in this asylum of holiness and to take a rest of the brilliant chores of the court in the divine peace that there reigned; she even chooses this devout home to be the place of his/her/its rest after his/her/its death.
In 1344, Pétronille, to get ready saintly again to the eternity, resigned of his/her/its abbess's load and it is in an austere and more or less complete reclusion that she spent the last eleven years of his/her/its terrestrial life. It is to the entry of the month of the flowers, May 1st, 1355, that the Divine Gardener came to detach the earth this soul all balmy of saints perfumes to transport it in the gardens of the Paradise.
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Set 1 - May 17, 1454-1592

Saint Pascal Baylon, Brother convers, boss of the Œuvreses eucharistiques (1450-1592)

When Léon XIII wanted to choose a celestial Boss for all Œuvreses relating to the divine Eucharist, one can have believed that he was going to designate a Doctor of the famous church by his/her/its doctrine about the Saint Sacrament, or at least a priest minister of this sacrament and has that he was going to look nearly for this glorious Patronage for a humble brother Convers illiterate, one of the humblest children of the Poverello of foundation,: Pascal Baylon". Among the saints of which the piety with regard to the sublime mystery of the Eucharist appeared to appear with a more ardent devotion, Pascal Baylon holds the first big. Hoping therefore that our decision will encourage the interest and the a lot of Christendom. We declare and we constitute Saint Pacal Baylon special boss of the Conventions and all Associations that has for object of the divine Eucharist, so many those that has been constituted until this day that of those that he/it will be in the future. "

This is how the Sovereign Pontiff exalted this humble Brother and indeed, François' glorious son of didn't sit wanted to have other inheritance that the holy poverty; if his/her/its austerity transformed its life in a long fasting to bread and to water, if it nearly took to above to a work his/her/its strength and so some boards formed his/her/its layer, so especially his/her/its obedience was without equal, it was nevertheless his/her/its love for the Eucharistique. Hardly he/it could walk, that he/it already escaped to run to the church in order to return visit to Jesus-Host that attracted it mysteriously; become later shepherd, the saint small shepherd, as one called it, and making grazed its herd around Torre-Formosa of Aragon his/her/its native village, he/it felt his/its heart to melt in his/her/its chest when of the churches of the neighborhood the voice celestial of the bells announced the Mass or the consecration.

He/it even arrived one day that God satisfied his ardent desire miraculously; having prostrated in the fields to the signal of the aerial voice, of love lies to adore Christ in consecration as it was his/her/its custom, here is that the holy Host appeared to him in airs, uncommunicative in a sparkling custode of pierreries and range by the angels. At the Minor Brothers he/it defended the dogma of the real presence later victoriously against the Heretics and cannot comfort itself of cannot have poured his/her/its blood for this truth so expensive to his/her/its heart. By God's permissions, he/it even gave after his/her/its death a miraculous sign of the devotion that he/it had practiced so much during his/her/its life, bus during the Mass, whereas his/her/its cadaver was spread in beer, one lives it to open and to close the eyes to the two elevations and to give as well as supreme mar that of love to the God hidden to that it had dedicated his/its terrestrial life and that it saw at this hour - without veil there in the splendors of his/her/its eternity.

So in his/her/its childhood, he/it had wanted to know lira, it was in order to be able to recite the Virgin's office and to be capable to understand the devout books the pure science had to increase him the love, but it is especially in the prayer that he was communicated this celestial wisdom that allowed him to answer, to the astonishment of all, to the most difficult questions of the faith, one lives it even often during his/her/its prayer deprives all feeling and as transformed in God, by the vivacity of his/her/its love. Pascal fell asleep in the Lord the day of the Pentecost May 17, 1592, day that was at the same time the 52nd birthday of his/her/its birth.

Only one thing had been the dream of all his/her/its life; to surrender in all and everywhere pleasant to God, and it of the most perfect manner. To make itself/themselves victim for the God Victime, host for host, he/it succeeds there fully. Of all miracles that are operated themselves at his/her/its tomb, the most curious is the noise that he/it makes hear in his/her/its shrines to recall the respect due to the Saint Sacrament. Soon, it is a Brother that, forgetting to make the genuflexion before the tabernacle, hears to leave the defensive wall a big stroke that causes a deadly fright and corrects it for a long time of his/her/its distractions. Soon these strokes make themselves hear to warn the guards of the church that the lamp of the sanctuary has just died out, and so marvelous that it appears, this fact, attested many times, is absolutely incontestable.

During his/her/its life, and even after his/her/its death, Pascal Baylon, was indeed the saint of the Eucharist and all spiritual flowers of the Franciscan sheaf, his/her/its soul is one of the most beautiful; soul victim attracted by the God-Victim; soul all half note of the purity of the Baptism, that consumed itself of love for the hidden purity God under the white Host; the Christian souls will understand and will envy this mysterious and sublime attraction that was the life of saint Pascal Baylon
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C' is a very big thing that to the middle of a big city, and with reports daily ave the world, one can lead a hermit's life, as well as made Felix of Cantalice, in Rome, during more of forty years, because it is during this logue period loads brother collection taker, medicated with people of all conditions without losing his/her/its contemplation nor the least parcel of the purity of his/her/its heart ever nor. It is that he/it heard each other to collect the honey not only on the flowers, according to an expression of the holy Writing, but on the hard stones, it is - to say that he/it turned to the profit of his/her/its soul the very pain, that one meets infallibly in one so big city. The spectacle of the bad example provided him the opportunity to make new acts of virtue, to recognize with the dangers of the life of the century the innumerable miseries of the society people, to bless the divine mercy that had withdrawn of it to him continually. Besides, when he/it collected the aumônes, he/it had as thousand opportunities to exercise towards the poor people and the poor wretches the goodness of his/her/its heart so compassionate, to pray for the sinners; to give them of good advice, of sages opinion, and especially to comfort or to relieve those that soufraient of some spiritual or bodily necessity, this is how he/it knew how to change the hazard and the dangers of an employment, or of others would have found the reduction of their devotion, in stings that incited it to give itself/themselves more completely to God.

Although the humility of his/her/its birth and his/her/its social condition had let it naturally foreign to these courtesy shapes that make pleasant the trades of the men, it never happened to him to crumple person by the uncouthness of his/her/its character; on the contrary his/her/its simplicity without colour, his/her/its straightforward humility and made like everybody. When, heavily loaded of his/her/its heavy bissac, he/it had to split the crowd, he/it is pleased to ask, in these terms, that one delivered to him passage: "By charity, my dear friends, a little pure place the donkey of the Capuchins who had pass with his/her/its load" this is how l' humble brother found to have fun of the baseness of his/her/its employment.

In all his/her/its excursion through the city, he/it kept so much contemplation and modesty as there was body so to speak only, because his/her/its mind was stayed in a deep solitude by God. He/it gave himself/itself to everybody, he/it was all to all without stopping for it possessing itself/themselves entirely himself. Everybody liked it and searched for his/her/its society, and he/it didn't keep less of them a wise reserves with regard to an each. Scrupulous observer of the Rule, he/it didn't omit any point of it and without disregarding anything of that that looked at his/her/its laborious use ever, he/it didn't lose to the outside lightest instant and was always exact to go back to the convent at the prescribed hour charged of the aumônes that the supporters sent to the brothers by his/her/its hands.

As all saints, and in spite of his/her/its lack of instruction, brother Felix possessed the true science; one day that he pierced himself/itself at a scientist occupied to consider the library qu decorated until to the top the partitions of the piece, his/her/its eyes fell on a crucifix that there summer appendu: "See - you, Mr. doctor, one made all books to make understand this one better ", says - him while showing the crucifix. To another character, he/it says equally while showing him the crucifix: There is in truth God's law in only one book. "The good brother had a lot of these devout and spiritual words; they left the home of high and pure light that burned in his/her/its heart.

The holy obedience, to which Felix had devoted himself/itself completely, seemed to don the purity of the oh all actions of his/her/its irreprehensible life in all, because in all he acted only by obedience and he had never risked the least thing without knowing if she will be accepted of the superior.

This virtue was resplendent in it of as much more brilliant, that it seemed to be able to enjoy of more than liberty in his/her/its use; because a collector of aumônes who passes the biggest part of the day out of his/her/its convent cannot be supervised by the superior, nor followed step-by-step in all his/her/its steps; it is even necessary that he has the permission to leave as often that he wants, on time and for the places that he judges by the way. Dangerous easiness that had given to a brother of a less excellent mind, one thousand opportunities to elude the obedience; because this brother had ended up finding of as much more difficult to submit to the superior direction than him would have had a longer familiarization to deal freely with the secular. Brother Felix didn't have guard to give in this shortcoming; one didn't hear it to answer ever after the least observation at any command of the superior, he was not even need to give him an order, the lightest signs was sufficient to him, he left to accomplish it as the expression of God's Will, with child's simplicity. He/it didn't make anything in hiding place, didn't steal anything to the inspection and to the judgment of the superior; when he/it had been to the outside in the obligation to take him - even a decision that soufrait not of delay, he/it was going to submit it to his/her/its return, to the pleasure of the guardian Father, and didn't find an enjoyment in the although he/it had made, that after he/it had given his/its assent there.

The mind of the perfect obedience had so much empire on it that it was always disposed to make the wills of the desires of each; that called it, it immediately ran; it answered all demands with an agreeable attention, never appearing, to l 'consideration of no one, or rough, or in a bad mood, or impatient, well on the contrary, it was always eager to help to everybody.

His/her/its superior had to even abstain from enjoining him by manner of pure joke when they didn't want that it was executed on the field, because the love of the renouncement to him - even for God's love didn't make him make sure nor to the tone, nor to the intention of the one that gave him an order; he/it only considered the will of God transmitted by the channel of the obedience to put it expeditiously to execution.

Arrived to the extreme old age, as one spoke about unloading it of his/her/its heavy task: "The soldier, says - he/it must die the weapons to the hand, and the donkey must exhale under sound beats ", and it is on the breach that died the Christ's good soldier May 18, 1587, one hour before the sunset; he was 73 years old. The water that doesn't rest beautiful and clear there to his/her/its surface, on the bottom of the vase where it had first formed an impure deposit, keeps its clarity that if one doesn't agitate it and otherwise doesn't move it; but if it didn't form a deposit, one will have beautiful to agitate it, it will always remain beautiful and clear. This comparison applies to Felix saint of Cantalice: his/her/its use threw it in the most active life, the dissipating than can lead a Religious, and however, there was always in it same simplicity, always same piety, always same way virtuous to say and to make; the same charity always: a purity of mœurs; always as vivid; always the same impetus toward the practice of the obedience and the perfect poverty, the same prudence and the same providence always. To pull from the set The Flowers Franciscans flight. 2. p. 28

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"Only, cellui that numbers the multitude of the étoilles and impose to each their names" can count the miracles of Yves saint. "But for that that a lot of grant inconvenience and dishonor seroit, by paresce, soy to say nothing about the things that belong has the louenge of Nostre Seigeur, we will recite some no. " (writing in conformity with the texts it is old French) this is how the successor of the Golden Legend expresses himself/itself and to his/her/its good right a few years only after the death of Yves saint and that to say today of the biggest of the Breton thaumaturges, indeed, the only commissioners investigators of his/her/its canonization suit already counted 27 ships of money and more wax 90 vessels that swung the saint's tomb above in the cathedral of the Tréguier and that testified lifesavings often miraculous due to his/her/its powerful intercession. Since then each century had to bring, in ex-voto, of new trophies and to add to the sheaves of procedure of the gained suits, the offerings of the sailors saved of the wreck.

Since his/her/its childhood, Yves had taken for rule of conduct this motto: "I must become a saint. "To the age of 27 years, he/it entered in the ecclesiastical judiciary of Reindeer, but he/it didn't forget his/its big goal: "I went, he/it confides to a friend, to the convent of the Minor Brothers of Reindeer to hear each other to explain the 4th book of the Sentences and the holy Writing. Then, under the influence of the divine words, I took myself to despise the world and to want the celestial goods ardently. A long time again, I felt inside of me a big struggle between the reason and the senses: this fight had to last eight years. "

Already, to this time, his/her/its steepings were those of a saint, but he/it entered then in the Orders and with his/her/its legal science, he/it put to the service of the justice the spiritual power that he gave henceforth his/her/its characters ministerial.

To bring back concord between the litigants, he/it had resort to a soft persuasion or the prayer: "Let me adjust all amiably, told to them him; for God's love, make the peace. "--Or again: "I am going to celebrate the Mass of the Holy spirit, and I will ask God for that he/it brings back between you the union ", and two times out of three, he/it finished the suits by an arrangement.

Full of leniency, when one caused him a few mischief, when one stole from him of wheat, for example, he/it refused to rage against the thieves: "Let make to God, he/it said, I am richer than they. "He/it didn't come out of his/her/its soft reserve that in presence of a litigant of bad faith, to force it, by saints but energetic words; to make up with his/her/its adversary. He/it was over it all the lawyer of the poor people and the lawyer of the poor people had to make school; his/her/its example was followed, and the year of the suit of his/her/its canonization in the Custom of Brittany written to this time one feels to pass like a breath of mercy for disinherited them of this world.

François of foundation and his/her/its disciples already very numerous to this time had marked on our knows their strong print. "enter in their Order, he/it told a penitent who asked him for advice: it is there that you will save vote soul the most surely. "Since he/it had followed their courses of theology that had transformed his/her/its life, he/it searched for their society a lot, he/it frequently went to their convent of Guingamp, he/it lay down there on the hard, he/it sometimes took at home one of the Religious. Friend and admirer of the Franciscans, he/it was as them disdainful of goods of the world and as them missionary; he/it wanted to belong again more closely them and made itself affiliate to the Third Order in their above stated convent.

He/it had been attracted and charmed by the soft face of the Poverello. In the small church of the Portioncule, François of Foundation had sudden shuddered while hearing this passage of Mathieu saint: "Everywhere on your path, preach and so-called: God's kingdom is near, don't carry however, nor money, nor currency in your belts, nor bag, nor two tunics, nor shoes, nor sticks: that l' worker wins his food. "Throwing a part of his/her/its clothes, François, the kidneys girt on of a rope, had accomplished to the letter the Gospel. Yves by his/her/its predications started with putting to execution the first part; then he fulfilled the rest. One day, in 1291, one lives to leave the Hotel hastily - God of Tréguier a man without shoes and clothed hardly that moved away while covering itself/themselves the head of a flap of his/her/its slipcover. Intrigued the witnesses of this stage entered to the hospital and learned that l' Official, it was our saint, had just given to a poor paralytic his/her/its hood, to another the fur of his/her/its surcot, the surcot to a third and his/her/its ankle boots to a blind, by this sublime act of renouncement ended the novitiate begun ten years before; in Rennes", the pure reason was completely main, said Yves; I gave my good dresses therefore for God's love, and I took a coarse garment. "

The year 1303 lives to end the career deadly of the one that his/her/its religious Bretons will call" Eminence holy Yves" When it had received the last sacraments, it lost the speech; the eyes fixed on the cross placed before it, it signed himself/itself, joined the hands, and as the dawn of Sunday 19 but rose, it appeared to fall asleep. He/it had died. A smile illuminated its face, more pink and more beautiful than it n' was during his/her/its life.
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Set 2 - May 20, 380-1444

Saint Bernardin of Siena, priest, of the Minor brothers (1380-1444)

I is the very year of the death of Catherine saint of Siena in 1t380, that was born è Massa, in Siennois territory, the child who had to be holy Bernardin.

L 'state of the mode was sad: The church had just crossed, with the big schism, the most awful crisis that it had ever known. The ancient constitution of the Christendom was setting in question, and most serious theologians came to recommend some means revolutionarily of false prophets emerged; the heresy rose on various points, in England with Wicleff, in Bohemia with Jean Huss, and so in Italy, the land was not there favorable, the pain turned in frivolous or scornful indifference; the churches were desolate; the neglected sacraments, nearly more of religious life, but instead a sort of convenient heathenism. Repelling dégaigneusement to what one calls the sadness of the Means - Age, the stern thoughts of renouncement and penitence and the terrors of the beyond, one pretends to substitute a sort of Epicurean rejoicing, the joie de vivre, there and of this Italy, that his/her/its Dante, in the middle of the hard tests of the previous centuries, named a" inn of pain ", one dreams to make a palace in feast where you will be pleasure for the mind and the senses.But there is one against - current; he/it doesn't come from the heights of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, he/it leaves poor and humble Franciscan cloisters. One would say a new spur of this source of heroic renouncement, of blazing love, of charming and sublime poetry, that holy François of Foundation had opened two hundred years before, on a hill of Umbria, and that, from there had spilled to streams, not only on Italy, but on everybody Christian. This flowering of holiness that explodes to the beginning of the XVe century after one period of relative barrenness gives us in l 'Order of the Minor Brothers the Jack of Capistran, the Jacques himself the Marche, the Blessed Albert of Sarziano, Bernardin of Feltre, Bernardin of Fossa and biggest of all, holy Bernardin of Siena. Not more that their Father, this worthy sons of François saint of Foundation don't withdraw in the cloisters., Ben on the contrary, quite scorched of the fire of the apostolate, they go by the cities and by the countries, unite immense crowds around their chairs, that one addresses on the places public for lack of the too narrow churches, spill speaks it of penitence, mercy and peace and wake up in the souls the echo forgotten then too much of the Sermon of the Mountain, rarely popular predication had as much activity, of burst, of extraordinary efficiency, it was rarely purer of all more free human mixture of all party pre-occupation, more exclusively inspired by the worry of the mind e t god's goodwill.

Bernardin starts its Catholic life with Milan where he arrives unknown, he first preaches in church secondary, then one asks him to preach the fast of 1418 in the main Church. The first sermon of this station was marked by an incident that didn't contribute to attract the attention little on lui`comme it followed the development of his/her/its topic, here is than all of a sudden, to the big astonishment of his/her/its authors, it stops, stay a few instants under empire of a fate and ecstasy, comes then down from the chair without having finished his/her/its speech. Gone back to the convent, one interrogates it, one is urgent it, and him fint by answering. "I saw my sister Tobia, that I always venerated like my mother, to return to this moment the last sigh, and his/her/its covered soul of the immortality dress to go up skywards. "This answer, known and true, didn't make little to attract him the crowds, the people ran to the churches where he preached, said a columnist, to the manner of the well stocked; success had to immense, the numerous conversions It evangelized Bergamo, Côme, then Mantua, Cream, Pleasure, Cream, Brecia, making the wheel to feet", semper docens" says an old columnist, then it passes in Ligurie, in Piedmont, and finally Italy entire tressaille, occur again, comes back to God

In Venice, he/it begins to propagate to devotion to Jesus' Saint Name, devotion, as old as the speech of Paul saint,: In nomine Jesu omne genu flectatur ", but especially in honor in the Franciscan family.

Bernardin of Siena was not only the restorer of the Christian life among the supporters, he also brought back the religious of his/her/its Order to the strict observance of the rule. Of hundred thirty Religious adhering to the practice of the Rule in all his/her/its purity qu counted Italy when holy Bernardin entered in l '' Order numbers them rose to four one thousand during his/her/its supériorat like Priest Général of the Order; it didn't found less than three hundred convents of the regular observance.

However the holy reformer didn't count that of them triumphs, he also had part to the reward that the Christ gives to his saints on the earth; he suffered; he had an abundant part to the bitter chalice. Not only him châtiaitdurement his/her/its body, not only i supported happy the heavy fatigues of his/her/its hard apostolate, but he was contradicted, persecuted, accused of heresy, and of one thousand manners, his/her/its soul, precious stone of the celestial Jerusalem, was carved painfully by the chisel of the Divine Ouvrier.Ce was Wednesday May 20, 1444, old of the ascension, that the arms crossing, the eyes raised to the sky, the happy face, said his/her/its biographer, as someone that has just won a victory on the hostile and similar to a man who laughs <mock ridenti ", that it returned his/her/its very saint soul to God.

It was the hour of the Vespers and his/her/its brothers sang to the Chœur the antiphon of the "Magnificat": "Paternoster, manifestavi Nomen tuum hominibus quos dedisti mihi: nunc auem pro eis rogo, no pro mundo, quisa ad You venio. Hallelujah. "--"My Father, I made the x know Your Name men qu You gave to me: and now, I pray for them, no for the world, because I come to You. Allelulia. "Bernardin was 64 years old of which 42 of the monastic life, and at least 20 of predication. He/it was canonized May 24, 1450, six years after his/her/its death.

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A few more of 200 years ago, a young man of 17 years, advanced by the ardent love of which he burned for his/its God to make profession in a convent of Minor Brothers of Corsica, was going to look in the Cloister for the silence and the obscurity. To be forgotten and counted here below for nothing in the death was all his/her/its ambition. His/her/its name was Blaise of Signori, to that in religion one gave the name of Théophile, name that means friend of God and that had to have in it his/her/its full realization. After brilliant studies in Rome and in Naples where he/it offered to God the beginnings of his/her/its ministration, he/it was the meeting of a very fervid brother, the blissful Thomas of Cori. In daily reports with him, of an innocence of life that brought closer them more again, mate usual of his/her/its apostolic works, he/it proposed it like a model with that he/it had to vie saintly.

One confided him the difficult task to promote a more narrow and more rigid discipline in some convents of retirement of his/her/its Order, and devoured of goodwill to spread God's glory and to contribute to the spiritual progress of his/her/its brothers, surmounting a heart happy and audacious of innumerable difficulties, and came at the end of his/her/its enterprise. In order to attract the cœurses of his/her/its brothers to practice duties of piety and to observe the regular discipline in the perfection, the holy man exactly called by the Franciscans the propagator of the holy convents of retirement, judged that he/it had to abound himself in all virtues to which he/it would exhort the other. Also poverty, the obedience, the chastity, the charity, toues the other virtues were the object of his/her/its part, of a constant application and a to stretch love. He/it liked poverty, to the point to search for always in food and the bedtime what of viler has, to use garment of rubbish, to beg door often in door alms for the religious family who was confided to him.

As for the obedience, always attentive to the least word of his/her/its superior, he/it never put a delay to execute their will and while he/it filled superior functions, he/it observed the observances of the Franciscan Rule scrupulously. Gifted of an ingenuous simplicity and a blameless mœurs ingenuousness, he/it made to these virtues a rampart of abstinence and the terrifying punishments of which he/it afflicted his/its body. Charitable, he/it visited the patients, helped the dying persons until their last sigh; carried help to the paupers even if they didn't resort to him; he/it helped his/its advice, of the work of his/her/its hands those that the misfortune overwhelmed, and those were especially the object of his/her/its daily solicitude, and it is not only his/her/its brothers' that God's Servant lavished the help of his/her/its speech and his/her/its example, but the Christian people also withdrew him from very big advantages of his/her/its saints expeditions.

In spite of his/her/its love of the obscurity and the oblivion, the vivid miracles that took place on the very following day of his/her/its death returned his/her/its glorious tomb and Léon XIII, September 24, 1895, awarded him Blessed's title. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2. p. 48 to 50

The Blissful Crispin Of Viterbe was a humble brother convers of the order of the Capuchins that sanctified itself soon in a kitchen, soon in the culture of a garden and soon while carrying collection taker's besace.

If it is beautiful to support with resignation all tests of life, especially if they are big, it is again more beautiful to savor the bitter chalice of it with joy and to empty it slowly and continually during a long life the smile to the lips; It is this heroic and continual serenity that the Blissful Crispin practiced and that deserved him the Happy saint name ". His/her/its virtues had a charm what no one resisted: the people became attached to his steps the patients implored his/her/its blessing, the big of the world wanted to see it, the scientists came to interrogate it; the bishops, the cardinals and the Sovereign Pontiff himself liked to converse with this humble that, by his/her/its simplicity, was dear to the men, as he was, by his/her/its hidden virtues, dear to God.

Worthy emulator of his/her/its famous brother in religion Felix saint of Canatalice, he/it reproduced the holy life of it; as him, whereas he/it was a collection taker, he/it liked to be called the donkey of the convent of the Capuchins and he/it knew how to join the sharpness of the irony to the deepest humility when it was necessary; one day that, by manner of joke, one asked him why he/it didn't wear this hat: "It is said him, that the donkeys don't have the habit to carry of it. "

His/her/its devotion towards the Virgin Saint, who began since the age where he/it can understand, was always extraordinarily tender and deep, and while finishing, let's collect like a flower of paradise this speech that the Blessed constantly repeated: "if your prayer passes by Marie's lips, she/it is beforehand granted", and again this other: The true devotion to the a lot of Virgin Saint especially consists in not offending his/her/its divine Son. "The Blissful Crispin died to 82 years, of which 57 pasts in religion, it was May 19, Tuesday of the Pentecost of the Jubilee year 1750 that he finished his/its rough task and that sounded for him the hour of the reward. He/it was dear to God and to the men, and his/her/its memory is the blessing. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. P 51

As the saint Happy of Viterbe, the Welcome Blessed was born in the Marche of Ancona. The divine Eucharist was especially the object of his/her/its worships and his/her/its love; life hidden of Jesus in our tabernacles was the book where the good brother was going to learn the love of the silence, the contempt of the sterile agitations of the world, the science to serve his/her/its brothers, and the fidelity to all obligations of his/her/its charge.On had confided him the use of the kitchen; it was neither an obstacle nor a distraction to his/her/its devotion.

One day that he/it had taken the first arrangements to prepare the meal, and that assignor to the appeal of his/her/its favorite devotion, he/it had gone at the chapel to hear the Mass there, the contemplation of the divine mystery delights it out of it, several Mass followed each other; during long hours the saint stayed immobile in presence his/her/its immolated Savior, finally come back his/her/its ecstasy he remembered of duties of his/her/its load and left the holy Place while feeling guilty about his/her/its oblivion. But to his/her/its big joy he/it found the finished work, all was ready: God's angel had it supplée.Ce was May 9, 1289 that God called it to Him. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2. p.52

It was May 22, 1538 that shone for the Blissful Jean Forest the day of the delivery that crowned his/her/its holy life. He/it had sustained and had comforted Catherine of Aragon marries the unworthy Henri VIII; it was his/her/its penitent, he/it had defended the faith by his/her/its words and his/her/its writings, he/it had confessed it by his/her/its virtues, was going to give now for her the supreme testimony of his/her/its song.Au daybreak the Blessed was driven on a sleigh of the jail of Newgate where he/it had just passed two years, in Smithfield, where two gibbets aveint been raised. One had made big preparations, ten thousand spectators were collected to be witnesses of the execution. The place of the martyrdom where was the gibbet and the stake was circumscribed by a palisade, When the Father Forest lives the big heap of faggots and straw, he exclaimed: "Oh divine Mr., nor fire, nor the gibbet, nor no torments, whatever they are will separate me of You. "

One girt on it then around the body and under the arms, of a strong chain of iron, and one suspended it above the fire that was lit under his/her/its feet in order to increase the length of his/her/its sufferings. Wind hunting the flame of his/her/its body prolonged its torment. During this time, the patient saint prayed with a big devotion: "In umbra alarum tuarum sperabo, donec tanseat iniquitas. " - "I hoped to the shade of your wings, until the iniquity passed ", it constantly repeated.

As the length of his/her/its sufferings became trying to several, and carried the other to compassion, the executioners pulled the posts and threw to fire the Blessed and the gibbet where it was suspended. So finished his/her/its torments; the martyr had remained two hours living in the middle of the flames. When he/it felt that his/her/its end approached, it recited the psalm thirtieth: "It is You, Lord, of it that I hoped, don't permit that I am confounded; deliver me according to your justice. Return your ear attentive to my prayers; precipitate yourselves to withdraw me from this danger ". While pronouncing the words of the 6th verse: "I put back my soul between your but ", he/it flew off to join the choir of the martyrs skywards.

One returns that some miraculous signs came with the departure of his/her/its very happy soul: A white dove had done acrobatics above him while he was suspended and at the time of his/her/its saint death, forgetful of his/her/its repulsion natural of the flames, had landed on his/her/its head One adds that fire saved its right hand, his/her/its mouth, his/her/its language, as if God had wanted to show by there, that he approved everything that his/her/its servant had written and says for the defense of the faith.

When fire was extinguished, the few that one can find rests of the martyrs was collected and was carried to Saint's church - Bartholomew situated close to there. December 29, 1886, the Father Jean Forest has been declared Blissful, at the same time as fifty-three other martyrs of the Catholic faith in England by N.S.P. the Pope Léon XIII to Pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight .2 p. 53 to 57

The Providence gave him for Pierre mate of Duenas, young noble of Palentina who had just left the sizes of the Court to become Franciscan Convers. They left together for Grenada, and having preached the Gospel there were stopped and thrown in jail; translated before a court, and having cannot nor be shaken by the promises, nor by the threats, nor by the bastonnade, they were put to death by the Sultan of Grenada himself that, blinded of fury, made itself their executioner right away and decided them the head of a stroke of his/her/its scimitar. The Moslem fury didn't even stop there; the precious cadavers were parceled out and the pieces thrown çà and there in the city; it was May 19, 1397. The Christian can collect in the continuation their sacred rests, they deposited them with honor in the cathedral of Vich; the Pope Clément XII approved their cult To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2 p. 57-58

Full of contempt for himself, he/it didn't agree to be raised to the ministration that on the express order of his/her/its superior. His/her/its love of the humiliations inspired him some time to counterfeit the insane to be the object of the public laughingstock. His/her/its charity for the neighbor and for the poor people in particular, was without boundary-marks; to his/her/its prayer, God often multiplied food is in favor of his/her/its poor people, either in devotion of his/her/its community. Of the angels and the a lot of Virgin Saint herself, taking face of paupers, came to solicit his/her/its aumônes sometimes. This Blessed died toward 1330 and in 1880, Léon XIII approved the immemorial cult that was returned to him. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p.58

Born to the borough of Villamagna, close to Florence of a family of attached farmers to the earth of the Folchis, Gérard lost his parents all child and was welcomed in the house of his/her/its masters. Become young man, he/it followed to the crusade one among them, Frédéric, whom there was killed. He/it came back then to his/her/its native country and lived in hermit; but soon, taken of nostalgia for the holy places, he/it came back there like brother-serving in the Order of Midsummer's Day of Jerusalem, coming with a brother of his/her/its old master; his/her/its absence during seven years, then he/it came back in his/its hermitage where until an extreme old age, while leading the penitent and lone life of the hermits, he/it preached the Christ of which he/it had venerated the traces on the earth that he/it had sanctified.

The Blessed had received the dress of the Third party - Order of the hands of François saint himself. He/it died May 13, toward the year 1265, the Pope Grégoire XVI approved his cult
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It is the earth of Morocco, on this earth that had drunk the blood of the first martyrs of the seraphic Order, that the Blissful Jean of Prado had the glory to win the same palme.Dès the first time of his/her/its religious life, Jean felt in his generous soul the quick desire to be going to sacrifice itself/themselves in faraway countries as there working to the conversion of the infidels, friends a religious to that he opened up of this intention, assured it that the moment was not yet come of put it to execution. Jean waited therefore; he was between time loaded of the Beginners and several times had to fill Guard's load. In all his/her/its actions, he/it endeavored da to make the training of the martyrdom, by the practice of the most rigorous penitence to which he/it joined the immolation inside of his/her/its soul. Finally, the wanted moment arrived; the pestilence having carried away all missionaries of Morocco, the Pope Urban VIII named the Father apostolic missionary Jean and attached him two of his/her/its brothers to replace those that the reaped death. Arrived in the unfaithful earth, their task was arduous but ever to it - over of their goodwill.

The sultan, angry of their success, made them put to irons, then one day, that the Blissful Jean had irritated it by his/her/its audacious goodwill, he unloaded him on the head a violent stroke of saber. The Blessed's face is resplendent then of a celestial light and a globe of fire appeared its head above. It was May 24, 1631; to the same time of other sons of the Blissful François spilled them also their generous blood for the same faith on the faraway beaches of the JaponLe name of the Blissful Jean of Prado is registered to the Roman martyrologe, although his/her/its definitive canonization didn't take place again. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2 p. 60 to 62

Mystical flowers of South America, Jesus' Blissful Marie-Anne especially knew a flower of penitence. Although of noble family, she/it lived in recluse within his/her/its family. To the long meditations, to the fastings without end, to the bloody disciplines to the continual port of the cilice armed of tips, she/it added a very particular mortification, the one to lock itself/themselves continually in his/her/its cell in with, for mate, a skeleton lain down in a coffin, and it is thus, while meditating unceasingly on the death, that she/it learned the art to live well. Every day she/it received communion, and every day she/it passed of long hours of meditation to collect the powerful lessons of his/her/its mute and inseparable mate, and it is thus by the Eucharist and by the continual meditation of the last ends that she/it arrived to the sublime summits of the holiness. She/it never finished his/her/its austere considerations without throwing some drops of blessed water on the dead while saying itself/themselves: "God forgives you Marie-Anne, between the death and the eternal life, what will be your share. "

His/her/its share was life, first an overflowing life of grace then, we can doubt some, the one of a vivid glory among the most glorious of the paradise, because a heroic death crowned a life that was only a cross and that continual penitence. To 10 years she/it had tempted to leave his/her/its family to be going to evangelize the Indians; to 27 years, as the pestilence and the earthquakes distressed Quito and the rest of Peru, his/her/its homeland, she/it offered her/its life for the city grief-stricken; the year 1645, in the evening same she/it fell sick and following May 26, she/it expired; but as soon as God had accepted his offering, there was not anymore nor an earthquake, nor a pestiféré.Le November 6, 1639, at the age of 21 years, in company of his/her/its niece, she had received the dress of the Third Order, promising to God and to the seraphic Father to observe during all his/her/its life Adjusts it of the penitence. One sees if she/it was faithful to his/her/its promise. According to his/her/its desire, she/it was buried donned of the homespun Franciscan. She/it was beatified by Magpie IX. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p. 62 to 64

Set May 29 2 + 1242

Blissful Étienne of Marbonne and Raymond Of Carbonne, priest o.f.m martyrs. (+1242)


First Benedictine and abbot of a monastery of this order to the diocese of Toulouse, Etienne of Narbonne, attracted by the burst of holiness that radiated in the Order of François saint of Foundation, asked to don the dress. Man of an eminent science, he/it shone more again by the burst of his/her/its virtues and by his/her/its goodwill for the souls; also he/it drew the attentions of Illustrates him friend of François saint, the Pope Grégoire IX that in these laborious times where the heresy albigeoise distressed the South of France of France, named it inquisitor of the faith while attaching him the Blissful Raymond of Carbonne, priest him also of the Order of the Minor Brothers and three Religious preachy, with six other apostolic men; the Christ's eleven soldiers prepared to the fight against the heresy, resolute to defeat or to die.

In the spring of 1242, the small troop of the defenders of the faith surrendered in Avignonet, to the very home of the heresy. They began to preach every day in the parochial church and God put on their lips a speech of one so marvelous power that the inhabitants hurried in crowd around their chair and that a big number of those that had been seduced by the new mistakes repented to apostatize them and asked to go back in the heart of the church.

To the life of these successes, one can judge the rage of the chiefs of the sect; for lack of other arguments, them résolurent to slaughter the inquisitors. In a prayer, the Blissful Raymond had the forecasting of it and he announced to his/its mates their next martyrdom.

The eve of the ascension 1242, about hundred sectarian, armed of axes, swords and knives slipped himself to enclosed night in the city, and approached the castle where the missionary saints were accommodated; the doors were of it to them treacherously open by the Lord himself that sheltered them and that was affiliated secretly to the sect heretics. As soon as God's servants understood that their last hour had come, by the clamors and the screams of their enemies, they gaze at on the knees, and began the" You Deum" of the triumph, waiting thus for their executioners and blessing God of them to have found worthy of the crown of the martyrdom. They were put to death with a frightening savagery and some among them were immolated to the very foot of the altars where they had gone to look for shelter. It was the 29 but that these heroes gave to the Christ the testimony of their blood; Magpie IX approved their cult in 1866.Tirer Flowers Franciscans Flight 2. p. 64-67

Saint Ferdinand is the Christian hero of the Spanish monarchy, as Louis saint stays the Christian hero of the former French monarchy. Son of the two sœurs, elevated one and the other by also firm and equally devoted mothers, formed by their vigilance and their unceasing cares to the purity of the mœurs, to the holiness of life deprived like to the full possession of all qualities that king's profession requires, protected in the same way by their clever and flexible genius, against difficulties and the analogous competitions, gave then with the same application and the same goodwill, to all duties of the royal function, legislators and justiciers, pushing the loyalty until the scruple and the bravery until his/her/its last limits, making nevertheless the war always by, ever by pleasure, and solely in order to assure the triumph of the right, passionate all two for the size state of mind of their country, Ferdinand and Louis offer in their career as in their character biggest points of resemblance.

As his/her/its holy emulator, holy very Ferdinand in the middle of the effervescence of the war didn't have in view that his/her/its God's honor: "Lord, he/it exclaimed, you that probe the kidneys and the cœurses, you know well that I look for your glory and no mine, that I don't intend to acquire perishable kingdoms, but that I only have a goal in view: to spread the knowledge of your Name. "also in most cities that he/it removed to the Moslem, re-established - him everywhere the Catholic cult, founding the bishoprics, raising the churches, building the monasteries, endowing some hospitals,

But the holy king was not content with destroying and to build, he also watched over the conduct of his/her/its soldiers, he wanted that one inspired them the feelings of the quickest piety, and sympathizes more to be assured of the victory on their obedience to the divine laws that on their bravery. Himself fasted strictly, carried a rough cilice, often spent the nights in prayer, and didn't spring qu fights that after being assured by fervid prayers the protection of the God of the armies. In the middle of the tumult of the camps, he/it lived like a religious saint in his/her/its cloister. Saint Louis, died in 1270, was canonized since 1297, twenty-seven only after his/her/its death; Ferdinand III, death May 30, 1252, waited until 1671 for the honors of a solemn canonization. God maybe he/it wanted to glorify the memory of Louis saint more expeditiously, because of the painful failure of his/her/its faraway expeditions, inspired by the ardor of his/her/its faith, because of his/her/its death far from his/her/its homeland; while holy Ferdinand, some big and sublime that had been the Christian humility of his/her/its last instants, had not finished in the peace and in the glory one reign constantly happy and always triumphant, because the test to God's eyes has more price than the triomphe.Tirer of the Set The Flowers Franciscans flight. 2. p. 67

The century or lived holy Angèle was a very sick century; The Turks to the East and to the South of France threatened the Christendom; the Protestantism pulled to the church the countries of the North; in the very breast of the church, the piety had gotten cold, the good mœurs left mined by the pagan Renaissance, the mind that blew on the world, mind of pride, revolt and sensuality, was all. To fact opposed to the one of the gospel. But God who wants his/her/its invincible and immortal Church provided to his raising through the intermediary of a woman; these are the Christian mothers that largely form the Christian societies, to train these Christian mothers them - same, the Very - High caused Angèle of Mérici.

Born in Decenzano, small city of Italy of the north, she/it showed since the most tender age a deep piety that she/it united to a real pure passion the penitence; having lost his/her/its parents hardly aged of 13 years, she/it donned the dress of the Third party - Order and fills his/her/its soul of the mind of the seraphic Father, mind of poverty and sacrifice, she/it wanted to live aumônes only, crucified his/her/its flesh, spent some times of the whole weeks without other foods that the bread eucharistique. After having made pilgrimage of Rome and the holy places, she/it came back to Brescia to take his/her/its holy life and his/her/its penitences were as them drove it to the doors of the death. She/it had to live however, because God destined it to a high mission, He made him understand whereas she had to found a company of virgins intended to the formation of the girls, these future mothers who hold in their hands the future of the souls.

It was the "Company of Saint Ursule" that formed and that continues to form so many generations of girls again to the Christian life. The task of Angèle was accomplished on the earth and shortly after his/her/its holy soul flew off toward the paradise. Today one can see his/her/its body again in Brescia, preserved of all corruption and covered of the dress of the Third party - Franciscan Order. V11 magpie canonized holy Angèle of Mérici May 24, 1807. The Flowers Franciscans Set 2 page 70-74

Of opulent family, the Blissful Ercolano gave up the attractions of the world well quickly to become Minor Brother and priest. The Christ's Passion was the center of his/her/its life; it preached it, it reproduced it in his/her/its life, it visited the lepers who were the witnesses of it, it made some pass the love in the heart of his/her/its numerous listeners, either laic, either religious, converting the peoples thus and lighting in the heart of future apostles the sacred fire that burned without his, to continue his/her/its work.

When a man is a saint, he can make feel his/her/its action in all one cheap and same in a whole kingdom; this is how the Blissful Ercolano preached the fast in the cathedral of Lucques, in 1430, when The Florentines came to put the seat before this city and reduced it to the last extremity. It was he that sustained the courage of the Lucquoises, expended much energy to relieve their miseries, and announced them the end of their pains.

God's servant went the last years of his/her/its life by the convent of the Piève close to Castelnuovo, stopping until to the thin F to work to the salute of the poor sinners; it was May 20, 1451 that he fell asleep in the peace of the Lord. During his/her/its life of the miracles had pushed his/her/its predication, after his/her/its death of other prodigies illustrated his/her/its tombeau.Pie IX, in 1860, approved his/her/its cult immémorial.Tirer Flowers Franciscan Vol2s. p. 73-76

The miracles abound in the life of brother Felix; the only contact of his/her/its hand made new again the broken vases, in baskets of reed, it pulls the water of a well, it changes wine spoiled in an excellent wine, it preserves a city of the contagion, it healed a limping, it changes the stones in bread and water in wine, it makes disappear the snakes who distressed the countries, it enters and moves in a furnace and in intact spring.

If the unbelievers can shrug the shoulders to the induction of these miracles, us, child of light, we believe there, because that costs the miracle to God's power, valleys believe in the miracles of the Blissful Felix, by that that the contemporary narrations that transmit them to us, breathe to more striking truth, because we believe in the virtue of the prayer in a saint's heart. We believe in his/her/its miracles because we have the goodness of Diu and his/her/its love for the souls and we conceive comfortably that this God who is love announced his/her/its power to his/her/its servant while thinking of his/her/its non interrupted supplications, not even by the action to his/her/its soul always in the sky, to his/her/its fastings, his/her/its eves, his/her/its cilices, to his/her/its washers, that a short rest granted with regret to the most vigorous requirements of the nature, came; hardly to interrupt; to his/her/its days, to his/her/its nights dedicated to God's work, to his/her/its enslaved senses; to the soul; to his/her/its soul her - captivated even; to his/her/its defeated passions; to his/her/its sweetness; to his/her/its immutable patience in the sufferings, in the injuries, to his/her/its charity without boundary-marks, to his/her/its mood the injuries, to his/her/its charity without boundary-marks, to his/her/its mood always equal in a joy always holy, in a word to his/her/its conversion always those you and to his/her/its whole existence on humanized by the holiness.

The Blessed died Friday May 1787 41, toward the 8 hours and half of in the evening. Léon XIII declared it Blissful February 3, 1888 to Pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p.76-78

As François saint of FOUNDATION, the Blissful Jean Pelingotto was first associated to his/her/its father's trade, rich draper of Urbino, and as him he was indemnified too much to succeed humanly talking in business of money. As François saint of foundation, he/it passed for madman when one lives it to cross the streets of his/her/its native city donned of a bag and the rope to the neck one day; some even thought that he/it was going to hang itself, he/it didn't go while to prostrate thus before Mayor's altar to implore to be she his/her/its mother.

He/it was not however as his/her/its blessed Father hunted of his/her/its family, on the contrary, having tempted a lot of times to be going to live in the solitude, he/it was each time brought back by force at home, and his/her/its father kept it home only while promising him that one would not force it to the marriage, that he could make of his/its goods alms to his/her/its will and give itself/themselves all to God according to his/her/its desires.

He/it resigned himself/itself, gave everything that he/it was able to the poor people and God became the soul of his/her/its soul. The deprivation of young sommeil,les, the rough floggings with branches of olive tree freed his/her/its heart and his/her/its mind, but broke his/her/its body and ruined his/her/its health; even the divine ecstasies of which he/it was encouraged crushed its poor body and threw it out of him like a man. He/it died the 1 er June 1309, as the twilight of went up in the evening on the earth. The pope Benoît XV confirmed his immemorial cult.
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Born in Florence of l' opulent family of the Cerchis, she/it was married to 16 years and against his/her/its will to a miser without religion and addicted to wear, she/it answered her/its bad treatments that by his/her/its sweetness and his/her/its generosity, she/it even placed his/her/its dowry at his/her/its disposal and saved his/her/its honor thus. Widow after five married life, she/it returned at her/its father, resisted all new project of marriage and gave itself more than ever to God and to the poor people, after having received the dress of the Third Order.

She/it locked herself/itself home in an old adjoining tower paternal to satisfy his/her/its desires of perfection more comfortably in. But his/her/its holy life carried shadiness; wounded in his/her/its fortune by the injustice, in his/her/its affections by his/her/its father and his/her/its near, in his/her/its body by an insolent maid who treated it brutally, tried of God by bodily infirmities and the interior pains, nothing of altered his/her/its invincible serenity. His/her/its love for the poor people equaled its patience, not only it went without from his/her/its food and his/her/its clothes, but it made herself/itself beggar for them. His/her/its thirst of the martyrdom could not be satisfied, it tried a compensation there in difficult austerities to understand for a nature so delicate.

To nobles ladies that asked him for advice, the Blissful said: "Cry the past, thank the Lord of the present, foresee the future and exercise you to the humilities; it is thanks to the practice of this virtue, while despising me myself, while liking the poor people, and while abandoning me completely to God that I received so many graces. "His/her/its final grace was to die alone and completely forsaken of his, but the burning heart of love and trustworthy in God; it was Saturday May 19 of the grace 1246 year; his/her/its holy relics rest again in the Church Saint - Cross of Florence. Franciscan flowers. Flight 2. p. 79

Contemporary of François saint of Foundation, the Blissful André had of access the adminis-tration of a parish; it was only to the age of 44 years, after have been visited by griefs domestic, containing the nothing of the human things and attracted by the heroic life of François saint of Foundation and his/her/its first disciples that shone already by their virtues through the world, that him résolut to get rid of his/her/its terrestrial goods to walk more freely to the conquest of the celestial goods. He/it was one of the 72 disciples of the Poverello, and had happiness to be control of his/her/its saint death. This memory always followed it, helped it to walk on the traces of his/her/its good happy father and to stretch as it to the most sublime summits of the perfection.

As his/her/its blessed father, the radiance, of his/her/its holiness attracted to his/her/its continuation of the whole populations, as him he converts the most hardened sinners, pacified the hates and the quarrels, that in these times so uneasy covered with blood the cities of the peninsula too often, and as François of Foundation attended of the Saint - Mind, had guided toward the Claire perfection and his/her/its first girls in Damien saint, the Blissful André was a guide according to God's heart for the Clarisseses of Spello.

This Religious saint that one calls as" André to waters" and that one invokes with efficiency to get rain or good weather, had gone to Spain to attend the general Chapter of the Order and he/it had found the country in one distressing drought; touched by the people's pain that foresaw with terror ruins it of the crop, André prayed, and his/her/its prayer attracted a rain so abundant that the country changed aspect completely and the harvest was so abundant that it even surpasses the one of the best years. From there the popular name that he/it received and the miraculous power that one assigns to him.

The Blessed was to various resumptions encouraged of the child's sensitive apparition - God; one day that without his/her/its cell, whereas one of these divine apparitions filled its soul of an ineffable joy, he heard the bell of the vespers, a strong temptation incited it to remain there and to continue to enjoy his/her/its Divine host, but it also knew the price of the Obedience letting bleed his/her/its heart, it left the very beloved presence to surrender to the choir, and to his/her/its return recovering the celestial apparition, it heard these words: "You made well to obey and shortly I would reward you. "He/it was rewarded the very year of it by an increase of persecution that he/it had to support as his/her/its father and his/her/its model to keep intact the very high poverty, but also by a blissful death that put it in possession of the eternal bonheu to Pull from the set The Flowers Franciscans Flight 2. p. 82

Camilla Varani, that received later in religion the name of Battisa, was born princess; his/her/its father, Caesar, sovereign of Camérino, was generalissimo of the papal armies, his/her/its mother Jean e Malatesta was girl of the princes-sovereign of Rimini. Since the childhood his/her/its life offered a singular mixes piety and mundanity; it prayed, took to practices laborious of penitence. But at the same time, says his/her/its biographer, in the garden of his/her/its soul, the rye grass germinated next to the good grain, and the bad herbs threatened to choke the flowers. Out of the church she/it took care of toilets and fun; his/her/its meditations on the Savior's Passion were followed of frivolous readings, of fun worldly. "But God wanted to have it entire and the instrument of which he used to withdraw it from the dangerous way where she had committed, was a child of the Seraph, the P. François of Urbino, famous preacher in all the Italy. One of his/her/its sermons dessilla the girl's eyes; she/it understood that she/it could not make to the Christ's speech lie, and that she/it could not serve God and the world. She/it got under the direction of the Religious saint, that had guessed it, and made der fast progress in the virtue; some time after, knelt to the s foot of the altars, she/it dedicated to God his/her/its virginity. However, it was not again there l 'holocaust that his/her/its Creator asked for her, and the grace hit strong so to his/her/its heart, that tried to repulse his/her/its inspiration, that it was obliged to give up.

The one that is the wild flower and the lily of the valleys appeared to him repeatedly and after having flooded it of a deluge of graces, let him in his/her/its soul, said the Blissful herself, three lilies of a delicious perfume; a hate of the invincible world, a sincere humility, and an ardent desire of suffering, it kissed the Rule then so austere of Claire saint and nor caresses them, nor the threats, nor the tears, nor the very violences of his/her/its parents, cannot shake his/her/its energetic resolution, the celestial Gardener came to pull therefore of the middle of the world this plant beaten by the storm and that had the tribulation thrown of deep roots in the virtue downwind. But the young heroine was not at the end of her luttes;des agonizing stages for a child's heart, came to the monastery as to his/her/its father's palace, will feel his/her/its constancy to make explode his/her/its generosity; she was invincible.

The second act of his/her/its existence begins then: the religious life, she/it gives herself/itself whole to the exercises of the mortification, of the t patience of the humility and she/it lives in an intimate union with the Man's pains - God. Then the various illnesses seem to give themselves appointment to torture his/her/its body taking that his/her/its soul is submitted to laborious tests; darkness himself thickening author of it, violent temptations besiege it and of long drought, that makes him to forget the passed delights, come to tighten his/her/its heart, to the point that one heard it to whisper in one the his/her/its prayers: Three years ago that I wander in darkness, my strengths exhaust themselves and courage goes me aban to give, remind me; to you, oh my Jesus, sustain in your arms your daughter who vacillates. "She/it had to remain however again of long years on the cross, it was only to the evening of his/her/its life that some rays of the eternal dawn came to moderate his/her/its painful darkness and that some drops of infinite joy fell in its chalice to ease the bitterness of it. It was May 31, 1527 that his/her/its soul himself remover of his/her/its body took its flight toward kingdom of the paradise. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2 p. 85-89

Orphan since his/her/its childhood, the Blissful Pacific was raised by the Benedictine abbot of Novare, city situated within walking distance of his/her/its native country. To his/her/its benefactor's death, he/it entered at the Brothers Minor ù he/it formed himself/itself to the apostolic life. He/it first exercised his/her/its missionary's goodwill in Sardinia, heard da then Italy of the north he/it came back in Sardinia as apostolic nuncio or moment where the Moslem hordes after having seized of Ottrante threatened Italy.
The fruits of his/her/its missionary's works were abundant, his/her/its deep faith, his/her/its bigger God love made him again support tires them of his/her/its heavy apostolate: but to the divine example Mr. he/it often retired in the solitude for retremper his/her/its soul in the prayer and the pénitence.Cédant to the processes of those that knew his/her/its science, his/her/its goodwill and his/her/its prudence, he/it published a theology state of mind known as pacific Sum and that passed for the best treaty of his/her/its time; she/it makes during to the Angelic Sum of the Blissful Angel of Chivasso, his/her/its contemporary, his/her/its brother in Religion and his/her/its emulator in holiness, and it to good titre.Le jute Blissful Pacific died June 4, 1482; his/her/its body, preserved of corruption, rests in the church of Cérano, in the chapel of the Virgin Saint, of which living it was the filial servant and the burning apostle. Benoît XIV approved its cult. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2 p. 89-90

Set 2 - June 13, 1195-1231

Saint Antoine of Padua, priest o.f.m. (1195-1231)

Here is the pearl of the seraphic order: Antoine of Padua, son of the Soup counts, had according to Bonaventure saint "the sciences of the cherubs, the illumination of the prophets, the goodwill of the apostles, the purity of the virgins, the heroism of the martyrs",.Thaumaturge, he/it is so during his/her/its life that it is only to the gleam of the supernatural phenomena that one can follow the trace of his/her/its steps, in Montpellier, in Toulouse, in Bourges, in the Puy, in Limoges, in Brives, in Châteauneuf, to speak only of the France.Thaumaturge, he/it is again more after his/her/its death, and on his/her/its tomb, already the seraphic Doctor began this sweet cantilena that always meets cool, always appropriate even on the lips of our contemporaries. : "So quaeris miracula… If you want some miracles…adressez you to "Antoine saint.

Antoine of Padua was and is again a big thaumaturge; hardly he is death that the miracles increase to its tomb and signal it to the devotion of the peoples; the halo that radiates it dazzles the supporters to such a point that they sometimes forget to admire the virtues that distinguish it, the ingenuousness of the man remained virgin, the austerity of the religious, the goodwill and the apostle's oratory, these is this milks that we must recall and must specify here.

Early, he/it leaves the world, because he/it finds it full of perils and that he/it wants to all price to keep itself/themselves pure before God; and as in the first monastery or he/it got at the shelter, he/it doesn't feel again enough protected, he/it doesn't hesitate to leave Lisboa for Coimbre.
In the cloister, he/it understands that he/it must not only run away himself, but also to work to the salute of the other. To become a better worker in the field of the Lord, he/it takes to the survey, especially to the one of the writing Saint, in order to become: "The ark of the Will"

Then, an unexpected incident provokes some it a new ambition and give a different direction to his/her/its ardor. Prostrate before the relics of the Martyrs of Morocco, he/it envies their death and their triumph, and to share their happiness, he/it doesn't hesitate to leave the Regular Canons and to become Minor Brother. He/it doesn't linger to leave pure Morocco, or besides his/her/its hopes are disappointed. But he/it has will well stopped to be indeed an apostolic man and nothing will stop it from executing it: in the heroic family of François of foundation, he/it distinguishes himself/itself by his/her/its detachment, his/her/its austerity and his/her/its devotion. During some time, he/it appears to be only it, a very poor brother and all addicted to the contemplation.

Then the Providence reveals it, and he became reader and preacher. The science that he/it acquired at the regular Canons, he/it kept it in his/her/its marvelous memory, and he/it will make it serve to the salute of the souls, François speaks like God's troubadour and appears like a very simple and little educated saint. Antoine distinguishes himself/itself of him by a more scholarly exhibition, of a poetry, more sought-after, full of allegories and over it all, full of text of the writing. All two try to procure God's glory; but by means how much different! François never rises against that that it is Antoine, in his/her/its goodwill in flammé, seem not to have saved anybody, there is the holy Bernard in him. As this last, he/it has an extraordinary power on the crowds, that he/it raises and that he/it drags to him. As him again, he/it takes a rest in the contemplation of the fatigues of the apostolate: It is in the solitude, that he/it comes to collect itself a last time before dying.

For Padua, Antoine became the __ "Saint Him Santo"; close to his/her/its tomb, as previously close to his/her/its chair, the popular confidence collects some graces and thanks of it to him. A long time the painters candle in his hand the lily and the book but of after one his/her/its biographers, the Jesus child himself would have come to get one day in his/her/its servant's arms, and since, this memory haunts little by little the imagination of the artists. One venerated in Antoine, the familiar of the Christ-Child, as one venerated in François him intimate of the suffering Christ; Antoine's soul and the one of the Poor of foundation became like the two mirrors through the what glimpsed themselves the first dawns of the incarnation and the supreme twilights of the redeeming agony. One invokes it for the lost objects, for the studies, for the doubts. To pull the book Of the Franciscan Flowers, p.90 to 95

These are not the states that sanctify the men, but the men who sanctify the states; this is how the Blissful Yolande gives the example of all Christian virtues as well on the ducal throne of Poland that in the obscurity of the monastery of Clarisses in which she passed the second part of his/her/its life. Married in Boleslas, the devout duke of Poland, Yolande didn't use her high position that to help all unfortunate persons and to propagate the Christ's reign; of concert with his/her/its spouse, she founded the churches, the hospitals, the monasteries and contributed to spill in Poland the family of François saint mightily.

Become widowed, she/it went, in company of one of his/her/its daughters, to ask to a monastery of Clarisses for an asylum to make penitence, submitting to all rigors of the Rule and wanting to keep his/her/its elevated rank that the right to be counted among the most unworthy. To escape the incursions of the barbarians, she/it was going to look to the monastery of Gnesen for a surer asylum; there, in spite of his/her/its opposition, she/it was chosen like abbess, and as well as she/it had been a sovereign according to God's heart, a perfect nun, she/it was superior model, preceding and leader his/her/its sœurs in the way of the most heroic vertus.Jeune girl, mother, big Lady, humble Nun, Abbess and Driver of souls, at Yolande can be looked like a type of holiness in the different states of life, she was also a friend of the suffering Savior and spent his/her/its life so to speak meditating his/her/its painful passion and to reproduced it in her. The Pope Léon XII confirmed his cult in 1827. To pull Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p. 96-98

When holy François evangelized Cortone in 1211, there were among its listeners a young man of 21 years of which the soul being similar to the earth of which speaks l 'gospel that returns to the hundredfold the grain that is confided to him; he didn't name Guy Vagnotelli. By a continual t austere penitence, he/it had kept the whole purity of his/her/its regenerate soul to the baptism and he/it was not thirsty that of a bigger holiness; also the speech of God's man penetrated it in it, as the sunbeam in a pure crystal. Since his/her/its first predication, he/it was going to throw itself to the saint's feet and prayed it to accept his/her/its family's hospitality, asked him then for the dress of his/her/its Order. François having penetrated it until the bottom of the soul, raised it and the supporter tightened on his/her/its heart exclaimed: This young man will be of ours, and he will sanctify himself/itself in this city. "The realization of the prophecy began since the instant; Guy of Cortone, with the permission of François saint, retired during some time in an underground cave neighboring of the city where he applied to walk with ardor on the traces of his/her/its seraphic Father; his/her/its prayer was continual, his/her/its prolonged eves, his/her/its fastings and his/her/its rigorous extreme steepings.

When, by the will of his/her/its superior, he/it had been raised to the ministration, he/it was put by François saint in charge of announcing God's speech back in the city of Foundation in Cortone he/it exercised the apostolic ministry there with the biggest success, and the holiness of his/her/its life, and the vivid miracles that came with his/her/its predication decided the conversion of a multitude of sinners. To l "ages of 60 years, exhausted by the labors of the apostolate and the austerities of the penitence, holy François appeared to him to announce to him that the hour of the reward was going to sound, and at the time of expiating it exclaimed: here is our father holy François, my brothers, let's raise ourselves, let's go to his/her/its meeting "; and, having pronounced these words, he/it reversed the head and returned the soul. C' was the 28 but 1250

The city of Cortone made the parochial Church transport the precious with ceremony remains his/her/its famous child; but this city having been taken in 1259 by the troops of Arezzo, the tomb of the Blissful Guy disappeared in the middle of devastation and the fire; however the guard of l 'church had had the presence of mind to take the Blessed's chief and of throws it by a neighboring well; three after, whereas one raised the walls of the church, a big light appeared to the bottom of this well, one immediately thought of God's servant, a solemn procession surrendered at the scene, the venerable head was recovered enveloped of a linen with an enrollment to make recognize it. The holy relic became some only more precious, one put it in a shrine of money and it was kept with honor in the main church, become since the church cathedral. Many miracles operated themselves of it by the Blessed's intercessions. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2 p.98-1015

It is in Pésaro, on the sides delighted of the Adriatic, that Railcar lives the day, of the noble and rich family of the Métaelluses. His/her/its education was in relation with the mœurs also loosened of the time it liked many the world, his/her/its false joys and his/her/its pleasures; but God reserved to purify his/her/its affections to the crucible of the sacrifices and tests. Married since the age of 12 years to a Lord of Malatesta, to 20 years she/it became widowed and mother of quite a young enfant.A this time, a devout tertiary of François saint come from Syria (some even pretended that itwas an angel under a human shape), built the city of Pésaro by his/her/its fastings, his/her/its long prayers and his/her/its frequent ecstasies, felt Railcar attracted toward this stranger, Syra, that was the name that one gave to him, constantly advised him himself d to give unreservedly to the renouncement and to God's love: "My sister, answered Railcar, me then to long for such a perfection; my son, stretching object of my affections, occupies my heart too much, and my riches don't let me read enough to reach such a detachment. Let's pray together, answered his/her/its holy friend, let's implore the Lord to deliver your soul of all obstacles",

Railcar agreed there and the following day in the churches of the Minor Brothers, the two women presented this request to Jesus crucified, a voice, left from the crucifix, answered: "Railcar, I want to deliver you of these solicitudes and this too human affection: I will call to me the son, and I will get engaged the mother",: When, they went back home, the child was sick; soon after dead ilétait. Railcar, then, sold his/her/its goods, distributed the price of it to the poor people and constituted itself their maid. Jesus condescended to congratulate him about it; "My daughter, tells to him him, when holy Madeleine poured on me, of gases and perfumes, she was less pleasant to my Father that yourself when you spilled around you your riches and when you you are dedicated to theservice of the poor wretches. "

He/it was not some so of his/her/its knowledge and his/her/its near. When one lives that his/her/its house became the appointment of all miseries, when one lives it to start begging barefoot especially, and clothed of the miserable dress of homespun of the tertiary, one called it madwoman; instead of aumônes, often one poured on it the coarsest injuries, and his especially proclaimed it his/her/its family's dishonor. But nothing, altered the serenity of his/her/its soul more, it had insured by advance the immen his/her/its riches of kingdom of the sky and Our - Lord made him feel it: "Your mercy towards the poor people, the patients, the orphans and the widows, tells to him it, reached you my heart, because what you make to the smallest among mine that is ourselves that you make it, also your reward will be overabundant. I would help you and will help you; mightily to follow without failing the trail where you committed, I would make you browse with courage the right way that drives to life. "And her to answer all trembling of respect and love: "Lord, what I make doesn't come of me, but of you; that can leavehim of a poor creature as me, that can rest the looks of Your infinite Majesty"

I only make you return the grants that I receive you, and while rewarding my aumônes, oh very merciful monPère, you crown yourselves own œuvres; doesn't have until the desire of the good that comes of your grace. Make therefore, oh my Lord, that nor my will, nor my acts, never separate me of you. "And Railcar endeavored to repairby one superhuman penitence life that that it louse-vait to call the mistakes ofhis/her/its youth. The prayer made its delights, it dedicated a big part of the nights there and when the sun to the morning came to warn it of a new day, Railcar ran to attend the Mass, for got under way to collect aumônes destined to the poor people.

This is how during the of thirty years she/it persevered in the penitence and poverty. Penetrated of devotion towards the Savior's passion, she/it wanted to visit the holy places and to see this Clavaire where his/her/its savior had died, and one returns that to the moment to leave this Sacred Earth, God rewarded safoi and his/her/its love while engraving on his/her/its but, his/her/its feet and his/her/its side, the holy stigmata of the Crucifix. "She/it had humiliated herself/itself, God exalted it, and to be his/her/its family's dishonor she was the glory the purest and noblest far of it. To pull from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2 p 101 to 105

The profession of the weapons offer sometimes a marvelous preparation to the religious life; the obedience, the renouncement, fatigues, the deprivations, the hazard of the military life can easily when the mind of time is there, to change in supernatural virtues, and one saw many knights of the century becoming God's knights. It was the case of the Welcome Blessed, that after having become famous by his/her/its military value, fint by exchanging the soldier's belt by the rope of Minor Brother; and François of foundation to the temperament so chivalrous liked these sorts of vocations, He admitted the new candidate therefore gladly, and he took all place of himself in applaudir.A works hard entered in the order, indeed, Welcome that had liked the worldly glory so much appreciated and searched for the one only the humility, the laborious job, the expeditious and happy obedience, the serious and soft modesty, poverty and the penitence. Him parvit in a short time to a very high degree of contemplation and his/her/its accompanied prayers of tear abound lasted of the whole nights. His/her/its love of the divine Eucharist was such, that it was given him to be able to contemplate s eyes of the body the God hidden under the mysterious veil of the sacrament and the divine Savior sometimes appeared to him under the shape of a radiant and full child of charms that descended in his/her/its arms of the host, the intoxicating of sweets and letting in his/her/its soul like a perfume of the eternal delights.

Loaded of the care are leprous, he/it knew to the contact of a pain so repulsive how to defeat itself/themselves every day, and being inspired by the thoughts of the faith and the holy charity, to defeat the reluctances of the nature and to be armed of the heroic courage that was him nécessaire.Il only lived ten years in the religious life, because his/her/its austerities and his/her/its fatigues had married its strengths very quickly, but this short space of time is sufficient to him to become God's perfect servant, and the Very High showed its holiness while permitting that many miracles exploded on its tombeau.On invokes God's servant especially to get the delivery of the grasshoppers and the mosquito that ravages the harvests.
To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. 106 - 108

The Angels of Christmas had sung the peace on the cradle of the God child, Prince of the Peace; one can believe that echoes of this pacific song of the first Christmas had sounded on the cradle of Elisabeth of Aragon, because she/it was during all his/her/its life the angel of the peace. The very day when she/it was born, his/her/its father and his/her/its big' scrambled for a long time father, had bent on her and made up.

Married to 12 years, to Dennis king of Portugal, she/it had horribly to endure debaucheries of his/her/its husband and his/her/its odious suspicions, and later as his/her/its son Alphonse taking pretext of his/her/its father's mistakes rebelled against read; one lives it to leave his/her/its solitude where had relegated it his/her/its husband's distrust to come to throw itself/themselves on the knees between the two belligerent armies; his/her/its prayers were so powerful that they brought the cessation of the hostilities and the mutual reconciliation of the father and the son, and two times she reconciled the son and the father thus; two times she brought the reconciliation between his/her/its husband and his/her/its son-in-law Ferdinand of Castile, once with Alphonse of Portalègre, his/her/its brother, even after the death of king Denis, whereas for a long time she had left the world and had lived retired at the Clarisseses of Coïmbre; she undertook a long journey to re-establish the peace between Alphonse his/her/its son and Alphonse XI of Castile, his/her/its grandson.

With his/her/its mediator's Suvre, Elisabeth practiced the Christian virtues until the héroïcité of the biggest saints, especially those of patience and resignation; she even went as far as testifying to the children descended of the trade criminal of his/her/its unhappy spouse the same love and the same devotion that to his/her/its own children. She/it died July 4 1336 and three centuries after his/her/its death, his/her/its precious rests were even exempt of corruption; Urban VIII canonized it, and his/her/its cult is spread to l 'Universal Church. Many miracles during his/her/its life and after his/her/its death proved his/her/its supernatural power. She/it was the providence of the poor people and God made himself/itself some times the accomplice of his/her/its humility: one day that she/it carried her - even of the provisions to the beloved of the Christ and having met his/her/its husband who asked him for what she/it carried, she/it half-opened her/its aumônière70; he/it had the roses, the half notes and the reds only all humid of dew that spilled in air their sweet perfume.

Blissful the pacific souls, had proclaimed the divine Mr., because one will call them girls of God; blissful, those that persevere in the peace, had sung holy François in his/her/its hymn of the Creatures, because by you, Very High, they will be crowned. The soul of Elisabeth saint of Portugal shines among those as a star in the night. To pull the Franciscan Flowers, Vol.2 p. 112-114

On the nineteen martyrs of Goreum, eleven are Franciscan: Nicolas Pieck, guard of the convent in Gorcum, Jérôme of Weert, priest of the same convent, Théodoric sieve Eem der, of Amerfort, Nicaise Jansssens of Heeze, Willehad of Denmark, Godefroy Coart of Melveren, close to Saint-Trond, Anotine of Weert, Antoine of Hornaar, François of Roye, of Brussels, Pierre Van Slagmolen der, Crow of Wijck-Te-Duurstede, all gave their life for the Pope and for the Eucharist.

It was in 1572; the Beggars distressed some Netherlands while making the war to the religion and while putting to death God's servants. Toward June 25, thirteen boats carrying hundred fifty of these persecutors arrived to Dordrecht, city situated within walking distance of Gorcum; partisans of the heresy had joined them, confusion and the tumult spilled country-wide. The Father Nicolas, guard of the convent of Gorcum, seeing the imminent danger, immediately gathers his/her/its brothers and allow them to take refuge each or he would like; "And you, that you will make, asked him - ils!__ For me, tells to them him, I will remain as a long time that I at the convent will be able to it, then I will retire in the citadel; Hey! well, answered the brothers, us you llaisserons not only. The following day, the Gueuxses entered in the city.

Although retired in the citadel, the Religious were not there a long time in safety; provided supplies and means of defense badly she/it capitulated the following night: however, the capitulation only got used to the express condition that it would not be made of pain to none of besieged them, either laic, either ecclesiastical or religious and that whole liberty would be granted to them. But those that were traitorous to their God and to their king, had to - them to get in pain of their engagement screw - to-screw of the losers!

The laymen, after one day extremes humiliations were put in liberty, the priests and religious were thrown in jail; their martyrdom began. The unbelievers first looked for their treasures, them while only possessing poverty; like this spiritual treasure was far from satisfying their cupidity, they searched for the superior, and as they seized the priest, the Father Jérôme accepted d gladly 'to be taken for his/her/its guard and to suffer to his/her/its place, but the Father Nicolas intervened and declared the one that they looked for; the executioners gaze at then to hit it violently and passing him a rope to the neck, and the endearing by a tip to the door of the jail, started pulling to raise the patient in air to let fall again then heavily him, continuing this torment until the extremity of the rope breaks itself; then the body subsiding and remained without movement on soil, the executioners disappointed of a death so expeditious continued however has exercise their fury on the cadaver, him burning cruelly the ears, the forehead, the mouth and the chin, opening him the mouth to reach the language and the palace, made bring up the flame in himself nostrils to see, they say, if the brain will take fire, retired then. After their departure the religious hastened around their superior and what was not their astonishment to hear a deep sigh sortri of his/her/its chest; he/it was not even dead, God probably reserved it to fortify his/her/its brothers in their supreme fight.

The confessors of the Faith remained ten days and ten nights exposed to the brutality of the beggars: it was especially toward in the evening that they had the more to suffer. Out of table, the soldiers half intoxicated followed each other and during long hours tortured the l prisoners one day, one among them imagined to make inflate them the cheeks, then insulting them of all his/her/its strength made spring the blood of the mouth, of the nose and even of the eyes of God's servants, and every day brought a sophistication of cruelty.

However the inhabitants of Gorcum began to be moved of the sad fate of the prisoners, and the executioners himself résolurent to drive them in Brielle, where was the Mark's count, the most ferocious enemy of the Catholics. To their view the count cannot stop from letting see a satanic joy. The hour of the last fight was going to sound. After have been watered of bitterness, after have been forced to take by to sacrilegious procession where the rituals consecrated of our holy religion are ridiculed odiously, one makes them undergo laborious and long cross-examinations during which they nearly fall in failing due to fatigue and the lack of food; one is urgent them to give up the" popish mistakes" and the idolatry of the Mass ",--"We believe they to everything that the Catholic, apostolic and Roman church, to that the Savior sent the Holy spirit teaches answer and we will stay faithful to this belief until our last sigh. "

__ Hey! Well, answer the executioners that is nor the term of your pilgrimage, sing therefore, devout pèlerins`nous is going to bring closer you of the Sky. "

No far from Brielle, in the country, rose the ruins of the convent of Rugge, it was not long ago a flourishing house of regular Canons of the order of Saint Augustin; but the Beggars had wrecked it and of all his/her/its former splendor; he/it remained only a big main building having the aspect of a barn. The place seemed clean to the intention of the executors of the sentence of Mark's count; it made enter the prisoners in a vast piece, where there were two beams of unequal length that had escaped the general devastation; as seeing them, the executioners, exclaims; has two gallows all prepared, it will prevent us the pain from raising those that we brought, some luck! "Immediately the convicted are stripped of their clothes; their modesty rebels, but it resigns himself/itself to this ignominy while thinking about the holy Victim of Mount Calvary.

The Guardian Father is called the first; before going up on a fatal scale, he kisses all his/her/its Religious and exhorts them to stay united in the same Faith as they were under the same Rule; then he adds while leaving them: "We won't be a long time detached, my goods dear Brothers, I wait you for all by God's throne; that one of you by an unworthy cowardice doesn't lose this precious opportunity that is offered him to enjoy the infinite happiness. "He/it advances radiant and, climbing the echelons of a foot assured, he/it speaks again to his/her/its mates and don't stop encouraging them to appear firm and unshakable in their attachment to the church Roman. But soon the voice expires on the lips, the rope as tightening him the neck intercepted the breathing, it struggles in the convulsions of the agony and one instant after the eve soul of Nicolas Pieck, separated of his/her/its body, flew off in the breast Very High God; the first of the martyrs of Gorcum was only aged of 38 years. One after the other imitated their heroic superior and returned testimony, while accepting the death after cruel physical and moral sufferings, to Christ's real presence to the Very Saint-Sacrament and to the august prerogative of Pierre's successor.

In 1675, the Pope Clément X beatified them, and Magpie X in 1867 issued them the stocks of Martyrs and Saints. Can their generous blood to bring back all stray far from the home within the Christ's unique Wife, the Saint Church Roman to Pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. 114-122

Worthy to be known and venerated of the whole universe, illustrate by his/her/its numerous and vivid miracles, holy François Solano, the big apostle of South America, too long remained in the oblivion, and however his/her/its apostolic works can be compared with advantage to those of this audacious man that made on other beaches of so marvelous conquests to l 'Gospel, and whose history is known universally.

Besides, in spite of the centuries sold since his/her/its discovery, Christopher Columbus world can count his saints again easily; it is just that it knows to the month those that it produced. Probably America didn't give the day to the Christ's valiant soldier, Spain had this glory, but of the less, on the earth of the New World, this saint exercised his glorious apostolate; of these regions impregnated by himself insurers he rose toward the celestial homeland, and it is her that keeps his/her/its tomb.

François Solano came to the mode in Montilla, city of Andalusia, March 10, 1549, in that time, darkness of the heresy rose on the world, Europe saw its faith decreasing and to die out under the doctrines degrading of Luther and Calvin; while these apostles of the hell, himself surviving in their adepts, delight at the nations their faith and their fidelity, God chooses himself/itself of new peoples, his/her/its divine providence makes be born a real apostle who will carry to less graduated barbarians, this light of the faith, this hope of the eternal life, that the civilized so-called peoples endeavor of more to see, for more to accept it, Columbus' vSu will be granted, because it was less the earths to Spain less gold to Palestine, that of the souls for the Christ who had gone to look for the audacious navigator.

Already François Solano had crossed adolescence saintly, already all young religious he had acted as model to the oldest and to the most devout; already as preacher he had distributed to the mind the Saint's grants - Mind in the his/her/its burning words of love of God already joined to the admirable sanctions of one holy life martyr of his/her/its charity, he was himself, during the pestilence that distressed his/her/its homeland, delivered to the contagion while devoting itself/themselves to the patients quit to serve them and to relieve them; already by his/her/its deep humility, by the austerities of the sternest discipline, by the stays and his/her/its nights pasts in the exercises of piety and penitence, he had carried the mortification until has imitate the big Patriarches of the monastic life, Benoît and François, himself rolling as them in the thorns in the excess of his/her/its goodwill to tame his/her/its body and to extinguish the ardor of the concupiscence; he wanted to go up even higher and wanted with ardor to endure the martyrdom.

In this goal, he/it asked by thanks to his/her/its superior the permissions to be going to preach in Africa; on the refusal that one made of it to him, he/it asked and got a place among the missionaries of his/her/its Order who embarked to be going to carry the Faith in the southern America. Counting for nothing the perils of the earth and the sea, in comparison of the salute of the souls, he/it arrived no without prodigies with his/her/its mates, instead where the Lord prepared him a big but difficult crop. He/it didn't save works, nor eves, nor fatigues; making his the miseries of the other, flaming of the love of God and the neighbor, he/it deserved to learn by divine brewing the language of these peoples, and preaching them the faith of a speech so persuasive, he/it got so strong in their minds, that these savages, leaving their natural ferocity, ran to the desire to his/her/its instructions; he/it instructed some and baptized an innumerable multitude of it. He/it won their esteem and their that he/it trusted them make of good will what one could not have gotten them by required means so. The strength of his/her/its words appeared particularly one day of holy Thursday: the Christian having assembled according to their custom to celebrate the mysteries of the Notre-Seigneur passion saintly; several thousands of infidels gathered together to melt on them and to wipe out them, François Solano having appeared, and being made itself/themselves hear to these barbarians, nations and different languages, disarmed them, made the peace with them and converts some to Christ's Faith more of nine one thousand in this opportunity.

Having gone later to Lima, he/it preached the penitence in this big city; like another Jonas, he/it threatened this other Babylon with a whole destruction if his/her/its inhabitants didn't deliver themselves of all their cSur to the repentance. This exhortation was so efficient that them s57; hired in the way of an astonishing penitence.

Indian and Spanish converted in crowds on his/her/its passage, because François was a real missionary and God's man. The first devotion of his/her/its apostolate never gets cold, the ardor of the fight far from tiring it constantly resuscitated it; the mind of the faith sustained it; it maintained his/its goodwill by the same austerities that had marked the beginnings of his/her/its religious life and can be again by bigger. He/it made all his/her/its long journeys to feet without wearing sandals, in some state that was the roads through the forests and the mountains, ever. Real child of François of foundation, of which he/it is one of the perfect copies, he/it confided in all in the good Providence without dreading the one thousand dangers that he offered continually the men, the animals or the things; he/it never carried away provision letting to God the care to provide to all his/her/its needs.

Lasting 14 years, François Solanno devoted itself thus to the salute of his/her/its brothers; laborious works to the nature, but consoling for his/her/its apostle's cSur, fruitful for the souls and pleasant to God. Finally completely exhausted, aged only of 61 years, he/it knew that the day of his/her/its last call approached having received the sacraments of the church, putting his/her/its arms in cross, fixing his/her/its cSur and his/her/its mind in God and narrator of fervid prayers, it expired July 14, 1610, the day of the feast of Bonaventure saint that it had chosen for a long time for his/her/its protector. His/her/its body, before very brown, became after his/her/its so white and so beautiful death and spilled a perfume so sweet, that the amazed crowd thought instinctively a thousand times again about beauty bigger of his/her/its soul that had just flown off in the heart of God.
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November 20, 1890, the Pope Léon XIII told the students of the college of Saint-Antoine in Rome: "And you, Franciscans, you with the Mr. that you must not stop studying to sustain and to defend the doctrine catholique70; You, Franciscans, you have the seraphic holy Doctor Bonaventure, that after having touched to the summit of the scientific speculation, knew how to rise in the mystical theology in a height that no one else could not reach; we read it gladly and often; after this reading, we always feel, surveys, renewed and cheery in our soul, Saint conducted Bonaventure to God by my main70; "In his/her/its" Divine Comedy ", Dante makes us appear first in his/her/its journey, in the Paradise, holy Thomas who represents like chief of the science theory; it is he that answers the questioning of the devout pilgrim and makes the praise of the seraphic François, Since" that the blissful flame had dit,__ that wants to say that holy Thomas had parlé,_ - the saint grinds began to turn; it is then Bonaventure, the theologian of the love who takes the parole.__ Of the cSur of one of the new lights to take a voice that, me rotating toward her, made me look like the needle turned toward the pôle70; the love that made me beautiful.

And the seraphic Doctor tells the virtues of Dominique saint: "He/it is just where is one of them, the other appears also, since they militated for the same reason, it is necessary that their glory shines at the same time. "
This passage of Dante has all his/her/its application when it is about the angelic Doctor and the seraphic Doctor. They are not, after Dominique and François, the most brilliant stars to the sky of two Orders brothers! Indeed, so Thomas of Aquin triumphs on the land of the dogmatics, on the one of the mystic, Bonaventure occupies a place that he doesn't dispute his/her/its friend, by strength, the clarity and the power of his/her/its logic, Thomas consolidates the minds in the Bonaventure faith drags the cSurs in the spheres of the most sublime contemplation. Their fashion of action is various, the aimed term is one, it is necessary to know to like, the virtue is the fruit of intelligence and will, Thomas counts more partisans, because his/her/its theology is for intelligence whereas the one of Bonaventure aims to the love, to the divine love, has why the blissful Raymond Lulle will moan of what the philosophy of the love counts less friends than the philosophy of the science.

Saint Bonaventure first puts as principles, that by his/her/its grants" The Saint - Mind gets ready in the home of the soul a happy dwelling and constitute himself of it a holy world of action; then it prepares the whole family of the soul to serve God and to obey to him, easily, it finally raises and educated all interior faculties, warning them against the temptations, the natural, and other shortcomingses, that sometimes shows stopping the soul thus from numbing itself/themselves in the idle tranquillity and possession of the grants. "
The grant of intelligence reveals the truth of the Christ's dilection, it is - to say his/her/its immense love; and now Bonaventure pénètrera until the bottom, because it is not sufficient to him to see through veils. The shrewdness of his/her/its faith won't stop there; the contemplation of the panting flesh of a crucifix; it will plunge his/her/its look of the open wound of the side transfixed of Jesus; the shape of the small host and his/her/its whiteness won't be him anymore an obstacle, it pénètrera well beyond. The truth of the Christ's dilection is in the charity, in the charity without boundary-mark and without limits; the charity has his/her/its center and his/her/its home in the cSur. It is until Jesus' CSur that will spread the devotion of the seraphic Doctor, his/her/its piety won't stop to the outside shapes of the Passion, it goes farther than the cash eucharistiques.

Eminently Christian, she/it goes up until the sources of the divine love embodied in the Christ our Savior. When the devout Doctor pours tears of compassion in meditation on the sufferings of the Redeemer of the world, when his/her/its cSur is filled of delicious affection before the tabernacle, it is that in the Passion as in the Eucharist, it finds the CSur infinitely magnet of Jesus. The Passion, the Eucharist doesn't have a significance for his/her/its soul that if she meets the CSur of burning Jesus of love for the men. This cSur is eternally inseparable of the Verb makes flesh. "Jesus is in the Eucharist, Jesus is on the cross, it is Jesus who likes, his/her/its CSur is not in summary something else that the love, eternal and divine substantial love, and it is this love principle and end of everything that holy Bonaventure contemplates and toward which he stretches.

The devout Doctor didn't like less Marie that had made it his/her/its precursors, because the devotion of François saint and the first Minor Brothers towards Marie, is stayed like an inheritance consecrated in the order; it was he that ratified the practices, the ceremonies and the feasts established in honor of the queen of the Sky in various general Chapters. When the order is attacked more violently, the holy general Minister taking his/her/its defense puts it under Marie's more special tutelage in this way: "Oh very worthy Queen of the world, strength of the poor people, lawyer of the humble, more sublimely elevated among your people, that Esther, by a devout devotion of your mercy, Queen, condescend to pull to the hostile incursion of their enemies, your minor brothers; they are indeed and particularly yours. "

The piety is over it God's whole cult; and when this divine tribute is paid, it turns toward the neighbor", because the piety is a port where finds asylum the paupers, it is a shelter for the poor wretches, a source of pure clemency the sinners, it has for end the pure faith and the holy truth. But his/her/its second act is mercy, also being himself it to the spiritual and bodily needs. "The holy holy doctor Bonaventure had this real piety, appearing more especially by the spiritual mercy, Gladly, he forgave the failings with charity and goodness, he corrected the delinquents, he gave and lavished the advice to whoever had need of it, comforted the grief-strickens, prayed for the neighbor and supported with patience the injuries.

Large was holy Bonaventure in the administration of his/her/its Order. Not only he/it had to defend some Brothers against the detractors foreign to his/her/its religious family, he/it also had has reconcile the divergences of view of the Brothers them - same. He/it appeared strong against the malevolence of the some, firm and energetic against the intransigence of the other. To all he/it can demonstrate, if he/it doesn't succeed in convincing them, that the discipline, the devotion, the regularity of the observance required that one was not content anymore with small convents or simple hermitages, was able to himself like that whereas the Brothers were few. The modifications that he/it punished his/its authority imposed themselves, as the example proved it followed by very religious saints, friends of poverty and the saint Adjusts. His/her/its size of view was to regulate according to the rules of the wisest prudence what suited all, then to let to each the latitude to be content in his/her/its individual of the indispensable, being confirmed in this manner to the intentions of the seraphic patriarch.

General Minister, he/it surrounded himself/itself with sages advisers, of whom he/it frequently took the opinion. In the capitular deliberations, he/it proposed what he/it believed useful in the good humbly, but arranged itself to the opinion of the assembly. Far from despising the Suvre of his/her/its predecessors, he/it collected all constitutions established by them, made them obligatory and completed them by new orders, become necessary.

Humble, he/it didn't strive honors. He/it implored the Pope Clément IV of not to force it to accept the archdiocese of York, in England, and when Grégoire X named it cardinal and deputized toward him the ambassadors assigned to hand him the badges of his/her/its dignity, these found it occupied to the last of the conventual practices; all as the last of the beginners, Bonaventure washed the dish. Without discontinuing his/her/its work, he/it asked the Pope's messengers to deposit on a plugs tree the hat that decently he/it could take in this world and could receive their hands. He/it finished his/its humble task, yes, after having taken on the tree cardinal's hat, he/it was going to join the apostolic messengers to whom he/it returned honors due to their rank. During the council of Lyons, the holy Bonaventure played a considerable role, he fell smashed by an inexplicable uneasiness, he fell, collapsed, it is the word, such a column that collapses in a violent cataclysm. Some assign its death to l 'weariness and fatigue; only one historian, the only one that says it, but his/her/its affirmation is absolute: "A criminal hand, he/it says, poisoned a cut whose content drove to the tomb the famous champion of the church. "He/it was only 53 years old. To pull Franciscan Flowers

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Saint Marie-Madeleine Tertiary Postel Vierge, Founding of the Sœurses of Mercy (1756-1846)

This saint, all modern, since she/it has been canonized May 24, 1925, was received in the Third Order February 13, 1798. She/it is the model of the humble Souls; she/it was indeed only a simple nun, founding of community, whose existence was not marked by no event that moved the general public; but it is also the model of the souls carried to the discouragement, because it shows them what can, in spite of the most depressing obstacles, a faith and an audacity that draw in God forces it to falter never and the means to succeed.

The decree of his/her/its beatification doesn't hesitate to say, "that one was right to call it virgin-priest"; it accomplishes during the terrifying period of the French Revolution, the pastor's apostolic functions,: she/it taught the cathéchisme, learned to pray, stimulated courage and the virtue, convened the supporters to ceremonies that she/it organized in her/its house or inside barns, and especially she/it exhorted the dying persons to repent of their mistakes and to die in peace. So much time his/her/its listeners touched of his/her/its reflections are himself they exclaimed: "A priest would not speak better than she. " She/it risked hundred times his/her/its head while allowing the priests tracked to celebrate this "Mass of midnight" of which the living and dramatic to remember suggested him again to 80 years this exclamation: Oh! The beautiful Mass that one celebrated then! "We thought to be always by the Manger. That our devotion was big! To the example of the first Christian, we were constantly under the "executioner's ax.

In order to maintain in the oratory of Julie Postel of the hosts dedicated, one first allowed there it to the to transport herself, then one conceded him successively to distribute the Eucharist to the dying and to the Christian that frequented his/her/its chapel and to give itself/themselves her to herself every day. Of small tongs of money that served to this sublime ministry, or relived the privileges of the primitive Church. One will judge the devotion of his/her/its worship by his/her/its joy, that she/it compared to the one of the Virgin - Mother holding in his/her/its Savior's arms.

Since the age of 18 years she/it had opened to the profit of the orphans and poor people a school or she/it taught reading, the writing and the calculation, but also the sewing, the knit and the science of a good housewife. Soon she/it unites three hundred pupils and found the institute of Mercy, of which she/it becomes the mother under the name of Marie-Madeleine. Who didn't she/it want some nuns would have other pensions that their fingers and that a true poverty forced to work; also, when in the beginning of his/her/its Suvre, one asked him; "Or are your resources? "Bringing up his/her/its two hands, she/it answered: There they" are. It was happy, because God was going to ask him for a rough work.

Assisted of abbot Cabart, she/it must face extraordinary difficulties; five times she/it must look in different cities for a place to live without resources: "Let's work, she/it said, I like ten gained francs of my hands better that one thousand due to the charity, because these already belong to the poor people."


Owing such tests his/her/its collaborator discouraged itself; mother Madeleine held good, and it is at the age of 76 years that the courageous founding arrived finally to install his/her/its daughters definitely in Tamerville, in an old abandoned abbey. She/it lived until 90 years, without stopping being on the breach; the very day of his/her/its death, in the beginning of the afternoon, as she/it didn't find strength anymore to recite the vespers, she/it asked by sign one of his/her/its predilection books, and indicating the text of Bernard saint on the obligation of work; it was his/her/its only recommendation.The august shade of the death spilled little by little on his/her/its features without it fainted, AT three o'clock, the chapelain helps it, to bring closer mildly of his/her/its lips the crucifix that it would be always., It resuscitated herself/itself under this sacred contact, and pronouncing a distinct voice the Savior's very words: "My God, I put back my souls between your hands. "She/it passed this world literally to the other in the kiss of the Lord that was July 16, 1846. As the Seraphic Father, while dying, she/it let to her/its daughters for inheritance: poverty and work.
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Memory of the canonization of N.S.P. holy François(1228)

A revolution had just exploded in Rome; again, the Romans seditiosum hominium genus came, as it so frequently arrived to the means ages, to revolt against the chief of the church. Grégoire IX, that during the life of the foundation Patriarch had been his/her/its friend and his/her/its protector, faithful to the constant politics of his/her/its predecessors résolut to let the insurrection wear out of herself and left the eternal City, Resolute since a certain time already to affirm François' holiness solemnly and to answer the desires of the peoples thus, his/her/its resolution was precipitate by the events that occurred, and accompanied of all the Sacred College, it made a first stop to Rieti, small city always attached to the Holy See; it stopped some days then in Spolète where one made him a respectful welcome then headed on Sat.

One had gotten ready to Sat to receive the famous Pontiff with all honors due to his/her/its dignity; as soon as one knew it to Saint - Damien, an immense procession organized itself; the inhabitants of the city stood in head, the Minor brothers and the clergy closed the cortege, all carried a candle to the hand. The Pontiff first of all asked to be driven to the tomb of François saint; he prostrated of it and prayed there a long time, himself striking the chest and spilling abundant tears, announced then that he would conduct his/its canonization Sunday, July 126, in the church Georges saint.
This day was long to come, because the impatience was universal, his/her/its glorious dawn finally arrived, and the sun rose radiant, maybe to associate to the feast of the one that had called it his/her/its brother. The small church Saint - George had decorated himself/itself like a mother for his/her/its son's triumph, she was resplendent of lights; one had had there with taste the festoons of foliage, of the bouquets of trees and flowers, of the elegant draperies. An elevated throne and decorated richly waited anoints it of the Lord, close to the altar, in the sanctuary. When, on marked hour, the temple opened its doors, an immense people, intoxicated of happiness, was going to occupy the places that had been assigned him. These were first the inhabitants of foundation, the poor people, the rich, the healed, the friends, and also, we vow to believe it, although the historians omitted to name them, the parents, maybe the father and the saint's mother coldly.

It was then all an assembly of Lords, barons, and princes; them extinct in such number that one had said that it was about a royal meeting, came then the nuns with their long veils, Claire is his/her/its daughters with their head, and the religious of all Order, last François' happy sons; finally, in the sanctuary, the Clerks and priests in big number. Then, when all was ordered and the more or less established silence, the Sovereign Pontiff made his entries his/her/its cortege was composed of the abbots of the monasteries neighbor, of a big number of Bishops, some arrival of very far, and of the cardinals. The abbots in head wore the stern costume of their Order; the bishops and the cardinals with their put and their snow-white treads, looked like a theory" or a procession of mind evangelical; came then Grégoire, under the tiara, covered of his/her/its dresses of ceremonies, sparkling of gold and pierreries; his/her/its white hair, his/her/its high u size little tilted, his/her/its beaming face of rejoicing, drew all attentions; his/her/its majestic dignity designated it well like the Spouse of the church.

Returned to his/her/its throne, he/it straightened his/its high size and, the extended arms, he/it pronounced a strong voice the solemn words: To the God's glory all powerful, Father, Son and Holy spirit, of the glorious Virgin Marie, of the holy Apostle Pierre and Paul and to the honor of the Church Roman, wanting to venerate on the earth the one that God glorified in the sky, of the advice of Our Brothers and the other prelates,: We declare that there is grounds to write down the blissful Father François to the catalog of the saints; his/her/its feast his/her/its celebrated the day of his/her/its death. "

The Pope began the then You Deum ` the cardinals and the Minor Brothers pursued the hymn; to the in and to the outside of the church, the people exploded in cheering, the trumpets sounded the triumph while the bells to stolen touts announced it far away. Grégoire IX took down the lower degrees of the sanctuary then and was going to carry his/her/its homage to the new saint; he kissed the ark that contained his/her/its relics respectfully, deposited a rich offering and prayed on the knees during some time. He/it offered the Saint sacrifice, during which the Miners forming crown around the altar carried the torches and the branches of olive tree then. It is this glorious birthday qu the Franciscan order celebrates to Pull today from the Flowers Franciscans Flight. 2. 148-153

Vincent of Paul was born in Pouy, close to Dax, in France. Again child, he/it brought up a big charity for the poor people. First shepherd, he/it studied then in Dax, and then in Toulouse and his/her/its Saragosse. Neat priest and received bachelor in theology, he/it was taken by Turkish pirates who took it in Africa but in his/her/its captivity he/it reconquered to the Christ his/her/its master himself, former renegade. Escaping therefore with him of the strands barbaresques, by rescue it of God's Mother, he/it undertook a journey in the tombs of the Apostles, of or come back in France, he/it governed the parishes of Clichy very saintly, first, then of Châtillon. Promoted by the big king chaplain of the galleys of France, one lives it to open out an admirable goodwill for the salute of the convicts. Saint François of Dirty gave it pure superior to the nuns of the Visitation, and during forty years about that he exercised, this load, he made it with so much prudence, that he justified the judgment of the holy bishop, which didn't confess not to know worthier priest fully that Vincent.

Until more extreme old age, he/it took to the evangelism of the poor people, mainly of the inhabitants of the countries; by a perpetual cSur confirmed of the Holy See, he/it especially submitted to this apostolic Suvre, him and the members of the community that he/it establishes under the name of secular Priests of the Mission. How much he/it used himself/itself to promote the holiness in the clergy, it is what the big seminaries founded by him, the ministerial conferences and the preparatory spiritual exercises to the saints Order that he/it put in honor attest; he/it wanted that the firm of his/her/its Institute was always opened to this effect, as well as to the reprocess spiritual of the laymen.

His/her/its goodwill for the growth of the faith and the piety made him send the worker evangelical, not only, in the provinces of France, but in Italy, in Poland, in Scotland, in Ireland, and until in the Barberine and the Indies. After the death of Louis XII, that he/it attended to his/its last moments, queen Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV, called it in his/her/its advice of conscience there been opened out the biggest goodwill so that the churches and the monasteries were only confided to the worthiest so that took end the civil factions, the duels, the mistakes that got then and that had since the beginning excited his/her/its fright so that finally all returned to the apostolic judgments the obedience that was had to them.
No kind of calamity that excited his/her/its paternal intervention, the supporters who moaned under the yoke of the Turks, the deserted children, the young incorrigible people, the exposed virgins, the scattered nuns, the fallen women, the convicts, the sick strangers, the disabled workmen, the mad and innumerable beggars felt the effects his/her/its to stretch charity and were received by him in even existing hospitable establishments. He/it provided at big cost to the necessities of Lorraine, Champagne, Picardie and other regions ruined by the pestilence, the famine and the war. He/it created for research and the relief of the poor wretches numbers of associations, enter which his/her/its famous assembly of the Ladies, and the institute so widespread of the Girls of the Charity. He/it also had the hand in the foundation of the Girls of the Cross, of the Providence, of Genevieve saint, for the education of the girls.

In the middle of so big enterprises, and of others again, continually applied to God, gracious for all, always constant with himself, simple, right, humble, escaping perseverance honors, riches and enjoyments, one heard it to say: "Nothing pleases me that in Christ" and he/it tried to imitate it in all. Worn-out finally of mortifications, of works and of old, September 27, 1660, at the age of 85 years, he/it fell asleep peacefully in Paris, in the house of Lazare saint, center of the community of the Mission. The burst of his/her/its virtues, of his/her/its merits, of his/her/its miracles, determined Clement XI to write down it to the catalog of the saints, and one assigned for his/her/its feast the 19 juillet.Héros unequalled of the divine charity, he/it is not hopeless class of men that must him recognition the processes many prelates determined Léon XIII to the established Boss of all charity societies existing in the Catholic world. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2 p. 153-157

Since his/her/its to stretch childhood, she/it wanted to be to God all whole, and when at the age of 15 years, his/her/its father forced it to marry the young tale of Termi, Lord of Civitella of the Abruzzi, she even refused under threat of death. It is whereas she/it heard in her/its soul a voice that tells to him: "Angéline, make your father's will, and for the rest, confide you to God. "In the evening of his/her/its marriage, retired in his/her/its room and asking all the tears to the feet of a crucifix, an angel appeared to him and comforted it; nearly to the same instant his/her/its young husband entered, and wanted to know with that she had just conversed; well merely she put it informed, and the young noble man non happy to reach his/her/its desires, made himself perpetual chastity vœu.

This devout marriage only lasted two years and l 'spouse of Angéline died, she entered then in the Third Order and his/her/its devout propaganda to attract the girls to the Christ's service was such, that the young Lords accused it before the king of Naples Ladislas of throwing trouble in the families and to be suspected of heresy while inspiring the hate of the marriage, Angéline appeared before the king and justified itself by a structural miracle in the folds of his/her/its dress of coals ardent; OH king, she says. If I am heretical, here is fire to burn me. And Seer the intact dress under the action of fire, the king declared it innocent; but some times after tired of the same complaints that were born again tale her, he exiled it, she surrendered in Foligno, where she founded the first cloistered monastery submitted to the Rule of Third party-Order of François saint, she was the first abbess of it. In a short time, several similar monasteries rose in the peninsula; the pope Martin V unites them; all in a Community under the direction of the Minor Brothers; the blissful Angéline was called in charge of general superior; she fills this office until his/her/its death arrived July 14, 1435; she had founded sixteen monasteries. His/her/its body had to buried in Foligno, in l 'Church of the Franciscans that already possessed the one of Angèle saint.

May 29, 1453, the walls of the chapel that contained his/her/its precious relics streamed of blood and the blissful appearing the following night announced that Constantinople had just fallen to the hands of the Turks. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p. 257-260

Set 2 - July 24, 124-1292

Blissful Cunegonde, virgin, Clarisse (1124-1292)

Niece of the famous Elisabeth of Hungary, Cunegonde was a queen during 40 years, and 13 years poor Clarisse, and in these two states so different his/her/its high holiness shone also.

Married in Boleslas of Poland, she/it persuaded him to keep the virginity in the state of the marriage and in thread the perpetual vSu. While his/her/its pickets spouse procured a marvelous way the a lot of kingdom of Poland by the example of his/her/its virtues and his/her/its government's wisdom and that God of one thousand manners blessed his enterprises. Cunegonde, in the middle of the sizes, especially attended to the prayer, in the good Suvreses and to the practices of the most austere penitence, it rose before the day to go, naked - feet, to visit the church, in spite of the cold weather so rough in this country of the north, kneeling to the doorstep of God's house when it being closed again and that the angels didn't come to open him the doors of it because it had several times this privilege.
She/it visited the poor people and the patients in the hospitals and the léproseries, comforted them, dressed their wounds, made their beds, washed their linen and returned them humbler office. She/it kissed the wounds whose only view raised the cSur got several times by this heroic act of the recovery miraculous, imitating supporter of his/her/its glorious aunt, it was as it providence of all poor wretches and the shelter of all the calamity the that it could not rescue personally, it recommended it at the Sky, and the Sky granted some miracles to his/her/its prayers.

In 1266, the Russian schismatics invading Poland, walked devastation everywhere, and the slaughter; the blissful, sorry of his/her/its people's pains, doubles his/her/its austerities and his/her/its prayers to get the help of the sky, the holy Gervaises and Protaises appear to him and announce to him that the Polish army is going to put in flight the troops hostile, and some days near, the prophecy is achieved.
After the death of his/her/its holy spouse, Cunegonde refused to govern Poland, and after having distributed his/her/its come to the paupers, it made profession in the order of the Claire holy, to the monastery of Sandeck that it had founded. There, she/it continued to sanctify his/her/its life by the practice of the highest virtues and God continued to him départir a bets his/her/its all power. One day the monastery lacked water; Cunegonde prayed, ordered then to a river that flowed close to the monastery to leave his/her/its bed and to follow a new course q'elle drew him, the wave obeys and God provided by this vivid miracle to the needs of the holy house.

Cunegonde was not even born, that already his/her/its mother was instructed by a voice of in top that she would give the day to a child of a big holiness after his/her/its death, July 24, 1292, one lives his/her/its soul to go up in the heaven, between the cSurs of the angels, decorated of clothes as white that snow; enters these two marvelous facts flowed out his/her/its life that was her - even a long marvel of holiness The Flowers Franciscan Série2 p.165-168

""Between the virgins who are followed on the earth the poor Christ, while wanting the marriages eternal, shine an eminent virtue, Madeleine, of the noble race of the Martinengos, born in Borgo, close to Brescia, in the year 1687. Since his/her/its most tender childhood, scornful the pomp of the century and the delights of his/her/its house, she/it was going to look for the Christ among the religious Nasturtiums, and appeared in their monastery models it of all virtues of an admirable goodwill for the regular, and flaming discipline for God of an ardent love, she/it didn't move back from the roughest works, nor before the humblest jobs. She/it suffered with a big patience from a long illness, wanting crueller torments again, to arrive more surely to the summit of the virtues. "

This is how expresses itself an official document of the talking Holy See of our blissful. She/it had evening of God indeed since the childhood; since the childhood also she/it knew the suffering, because she/it was always sickly. She/it lost her/its mother a short time after his/her/its birth, and his/her/its education was confided to two his/her/its aunts, ursulines to the monastery of Our - Lady of the Angels; it is there that it made her/its first communion, and as the priest was going to deposit the Eucharist on his/her/its childish lips, the host escaped and fell on the ground; impossible to the priest to take it because the gille prevented of it to him; then Marguerite, this was his/her/its baptismal name, prostrating to two knees, glued his/her/its lips on his/her/its God, and absorbed it respectfully; but this incident dove it in terrifying fears, because it believed herself/itself embossed of a God for which it felt inebriate of love.

His/her/its period of past life to the boarding school was filled by the survey, the prayer and the penitence, to such a point that the title of holy small "santarella." Was awarded him by his/her/its mistress, she/it passed of there to the Saint's monastery - Mind where she/it made vSu of virginity and where she/it had to crossbars of the tests identical to those of Theresa of Avila. His/her/its okay brothers with their father, carried him some novels to read to divert it from the religious life; ceslivres of hell gave the death to my soul, and the infernal torments would not be capable to expiate a similar ingratitude ", she/it will even say later.. According to his/her/its father's orders, she/it was clothed richly and glorified itself of it; some nuns even flattered it, congratulated to her, on his/her/its charming graces; "only God, she/it has said, knew the agitation of my soul then, I believed myself damned. But the Virgin Saint came to make light: "You will be Nasturtium, tells to him them, so my Son wants it. "

Marguerite didn't enter however in the seraphic order that September 8, 1705, and after very agonizing stages with his/her/its family; she says profession the following year in the feast of the Saint's Nativity - Virgin; but, from this moment the divine eagle held for ever his/her/its dove in his/her/its greenhouse amoureuseImpossible to describe austerities, the illnesses, in the same way also the tests, the interior and bodily martyrdoms, that the divine consolations of the young profess. In addition to the choral office, she/it recited every day the office of the Virgin Saint, hundred Ave accompanied by deep prostrations, and hundred times the following invocation to the Virgin: "I greet you, Girl of God the Father, Mother of God of God the Son, Wife of the Saint - Mind, Temple of the a lot of Saint Trinidad. "In 1714 she/it gave out vows it to make what will seem most perfect to him always; Seraphic truth, his/her/its soul, as the one of the seraphic Father overflowed with love of poetry that exalted itself in blazing songs.

A feature, repugnant maybe to the worldly souls, will show how far could go his/her/its mind of mortification and his/her/its love of the Saint Sacrament: August 12, 1728, attest the mother Marie under oath - Electa, hardly I had received communion that I felt a top the cSur and full a greenish rod pan: my main mother (it was the blissful) attended me, then I left to hear a sermon. When I returned to the cell, I found the purified pan, the Mother Marie-Madeleine, in an extraordinary love movement had absorbed the content of it, then, having purified the pan, she/it had also drunk this eau70; "although she/it was in mound to the calumny and to the contradiction, the blissful was elected several times however mistress of the beginners, then chosen like abbess. Finally after three last years to the infirmary where she/it was satiated of sufferings, Marie's soul - Madeleine flew off skywards July 27, 1737, she was 49 years old, and it stretch it second year of his/her/its religious life.

Before the burial, the doctors trust the autopsy of the holy body; they discovered with stupor about hundred needles driven in the fleshes and the skull so that this virginal body looked like a mosaic of excrescences, of hollow, of scars of skin fragments regaining rests of cilices driven in the fleshes. One can judge the hidden martyrs thus that she/it endured and that the only death revealed to the men. A queen of Spain received and went up on gold and ruby one of the needles that served to Marie's martyrdom - Madeleine. Léon XIII beatified l' heroic abbess June 3, 1990 to Pull the Franciscan Flowers, Flight. 2 p. 168 - 172

Set 2 - July 30, 1442-490

Blissful Pierre Of Molliano (1442-1490)

Since three years, Pierre of Molliano was a brightness studying the University of Pérouse, when, attending, to a sermon of the Blissful Dominique of Léonisse, provincial of the Franciscans of the Marche of Ancona, he took himself/itself to think on the fragility of the human life and on the happiness of God's true servants. Faithful to the call of the grace, he/it gave up the world and came to ask for the dress of François saint to that one even whose words had touched its cSur; he/it was 25 years old.

One gave it like mate to Jacques saint of the Marche, and under the conduct of such a master he/it made rapids progress in the ways of the holiness, and became to the perfect minister of the gospel. His/her/its simple, soft and nice speech opened him all courses; it pacified the factions, brought back the sinners, opened the souls hardened to the compunction; the crowds brought him their griefs and their doubts, the doctors of the Universities came in to stretch luminous explanations of the most sublime mysteries of the faith.He/it listened to with patience these long narrations of the human pains, of the puzzlements of the conscience, of the illnesses of the soul; then he/it distributed some advice according to the diversity of the needs spiritual, incomparable physician of the souls, he/it possessed remedies so efficient, managed them with so much sweetness as one never refused them, this is how he/it healed the guilty parties and the that he/it helped the souls penitents to train in them Jesus - Christ. It is he that directed in the ways of the perfection, the Blissful Baptist Varanis, and his/her/its wise directions had a part in has very high holiness.

After one life all employee to the souls, God's faithful servant died in the night of Sunday, July 21, 1490; the Religious sang the You Deum of Matins to Pull the Franciscan Flowers, Vol.2. (175-176

Set 2 - July 30, 1390-1460

Blissful Archangel Of Calatafimi (1390-1460)

Although belonging to the noble family of the Placentinis, celebrate in the whole Sicily, the blissful Archangel retired early in a desolate place and hid in a drop where he spent the days and the nights applied to the prayer and the meditation of the eternal things. He/it led the austere life of the hermits thus until the day where a bubble of Martin V suppressed the hermitage that populated Sicily; it presented himself/itself then at the convent of the Minor Brothers of Palermo and took the dress of the order there.

What he/it had been in the solitude, him he/it was in the cloister; prayer, humility, obedience, rigorous austerities, such was the means that he/it used r louse to sanctify his/her/its soul. Chosen like provincial and rigid observer of the Rule for what looked at it him - even, he/it used himself/itself of all his/her/its strengths to maintain it in all his/her/its primitive purity at the other and fills screw - to-screw of his/her/its brothers with the biggest fruits all duties of a zealous and charitable pastor.S' he/it came out of his/her/its dear solitude, it was the love and the goodwill of the souls that the pushed there; he/it was going to evangelize the surrounding countries then and preached to the men the penitence, God returned his/her/its efficient speech and confirmed it by miracles, and this is how after long last years in the heroic practice of all the virtues and employees to the Suvre of the salute of the souls, he was called July 26, 1460 to receive the eternal reward. The Pope Grégoire XVI confirmed the immemorial cult that was returned to him. To pull the Franciscan Flowers, Vol.2. (176-178)

To the time where holy Cyrille was bishop of Jerusalem, four hermits sent by him in Italy with a fragment of the Virgin's tomb, had received the pope Frees mission to construct in the valley of Spolète a church to keep this relic. Under the name of Marie saint of Josaphat, they raised in 352 a sm all chapel decorated with a picture of l57;Assomption. Later, in 576, she/it took the name of Marie saint of the Angels, after holy Benoît had gotten it for his/her/its Order; it was not a convent but a simple; "Potiuncula terreni"--a parcel of earth. In 1075, the small church was if ruined that the Benedictine monks had to have left it and had to have gone back to the abbey of the Subase mount. She/it was in this state of vétusté, again increased by two centuries of abandonment, when François of foundation, disillusioned of his/her/its frivolous life, brought in the calmness of these woods the torment of his/her/its soul while asking god for the secret of his/her/its vocation. Afflicted at the sight of the ruins of the ancient chapel, and advanced by his/her/its devotion for the Queen of the Sky, him résolut to raise them and in this goal settles by them; it was in 1207.

By means of interlocking branches, he/it made himself/itself a cell of which he/it became the regular host. It is there that during long months he/it came day and night to spill his/her/its soul and of the prayers; it is there that he/it conceived the evangelical truth in all his/her/its perfection and all his/her/its fullness. Two years went by; François' penitence was only passed by his/her/its God's love, and light didn't make itself again in his/her/its mind; however, in his/her/its cSur increased this cult fascinated for the body and the Christ's blood that had to become one of the most characteristic features of his/her/its piety. It is why, following the restoration of the portioncule, and to satisfy the devotion of the young man, the priest of Damien saint sometimes returned itself of it at the early hour, to celebrate the Mass there.

However, February 24, 1209, on the day of Matthias saint, as he/it benefitted his/its friend's complaisance, he/it was hit by these words of the gospel of the apostles: Please to possess anything, nor however, nor money, nor two tunics, and even don't carry anything for the road, nor stick, nor besace. "François immediately rose, threw his/her/its purse on the ground, his/her/its stick, his/her/its shoes, and exclaimed all happy: "I want it and want it of all my cSur. "It was the end of his/her/its anguishes, the solution his/her/its doubts, the answer to his/her/its desires again definite pain, the rule kisses all his/her/its life henceforth. Also, as soon as his/her/its first disciples, Bernard of Quintavalle, Pierre of Catania, Gilles (Aegis) of Foundation, Silvestre, had joined to him, he/it brought them in succession and often to pray in this place, where God's Will had been revealed, François asked the abbot of Benoît saint then to grant him the enjoyment of the small Chapel of the Portioncule. The abbot gave up it gladly and would even have given it, but the Poverello had given up all property; he didn't want to receive it and required that the Brothers carried every year to the abbey a basket of fish to acquit the renting of it.

All nearby, in wood, François and his/her/its first disciples, constructed themselves a bigger foliage cabin than the first; she/it sheltered the beginnings of the common life. The lone woods disappeared, they would have kept maybe in their branches and would have retelled to the least swish of their foliage, the echo of so many charming words, full of a so simple, so sweet, so lively piety. The big basilica raised by the Dominican pope saint Magpie V covers today with his/her/its majestic dome the humble and ancient" Chiesetta ".

Precious" chiesinetta!" she/it is the pearl of the Franciscan order: "It is that Claire, dropping his/her/its luxurious adornments, donned the gray dress similar to the one of François, it is there that she inclined before him his/her/its blond head so that he stripped it and buries it forever under the veil crotchet of the Christ's wives; it is there that she exchanged her/its thin shoes against coarse sandals and his/her/its belt enriched of pierreries against a humble rope; it is there that to high voice, in the quiet and reflexive joy of his/her/its soul, she pronounced the three vSux of religion and that the Order of the poor Ladies was founded. The most glorious memories of François' life group themselves around the humble chapel: the Patriarch's presence stays so of it sensitive that one believes to relive events of the eve, and when the religious, in the evening of October 4, come here in procession to sing on the knees "OH Sanctissima Anima", one believes to tilt nearly under their Father's blessing as their eldests, when they received it to the supreme moment of his/her/its blissful death.

It is as there that before this altar knelt, the Christ appeared to the blessed, as later to l' Alverne to grant him the famous :70;Une indulgence harms, toward the end of July of the year 1216 that the blissful François, the goodwill that you and yours have for the salute of the souls, tilt to grant you something in their favor, to the glory of my Name, because I established you for the support of my Church and the salute of the nations. "And the saint made this prayer: Very "holy Lord, although I am only a poor person sinner, I implore you to have goodness to grant to the men that all those that will visit this church receive a plenary indulgence of all their sins, after himself in to be confessed to a priest; and I ask the blissful Virgin your Mother, the lawyer of the human kind, to intercede to make it to me to get. "The merciful Virgin interceded and Jesus pronounced these words: "François, that for that you ask is big, but you will receive bigger favors again. I grant You this one, but I want that you are going to find my Priest to whom I gave the power to bind and to untie and that you make him ratify it. "Full of joy, the saint called the Massaged brother and they be Honorius III of it to expose him this request: "François, answered him the pope, you ask a lot and the holy Church doesn't have custom to concede such an indulgence. "Saint François says then: "Lord, what I ask you to grant me, I don't ask for it in my name, but in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ who sent to me. The Lord pope agreed then without delay, and repeated until three times: "He/it pleases me that you have this indulgence. "But the present cardinals started saying: "Lord, pay attention that as not conceding to this man such an indulgence you destroyed the indulgences of overseas and those of the Apostle Pierre and Paul. "The Lord pope answered: She/it is now conceded, and it is not appropriate that we annulled what is made; but we will put a restriction there while fixing it to one day natural only. "He/it called François therefore and tells to him: " Here it is that we concede to whoever will come and will enter in the so-called church, confessed and contrite, the absolution of the pain and coulpe and we want that this concession is in perpetuity valid every year, only during one day nature, since the first vespers, the included night, until the vespers of the following day. "

Then God's man inclining the head left the palace; that that seer the Lord pope reminded it and tells to him: "Simple man, where go you and what testimony do you carry away of this indulgence? And the blissful François answered: "Your speech is sufficient to me; if it is God's Suvre, it is his/her/its business to make it manifest; I don't want some of other certificate. That the blissful Virgin is the charter of it, that the Christ is the notary of it, and that the angels are the witnesses of it. "And the blessed took the way home; after having spent the following night in a léproserie, he got, to the morning, in prayer then, all happy; Massaged "Brother, he says, I affirm it to you on behalf of God, this indulgence that I have just conceded the Sovereign - Pontiff has been ratified in the sky. "

As he/it was going to leave the earth when, blind and dying one descended it to Foundation, the Father of the Miners showed a big joy to meet in the Portioncule that he had left since two years and, being made itself/themselves transport to the chapel, he poured out his/its soul: "Oh my children, he/it says, do never abandon this place. If one hunts you on one hand, go back by the other, he/it is indeed holy, and God established his home there. It is here that the Very - high multiplied us when we were in small number, that he/it illuminated the mind of his/her/its poor people of the Wisdom light, that he/it inflamed our cSurs of the fire of his/her/its love. Who will pray religiously here will get that that he/it will ask, and that will sin will be punished rigorously. Have my children a big reverence for this house, and sing the praises of the Lord there with devotion and rejoicing. All these glories brought Magpie X, April 11, 1909, not only to confirm to the Pontioncule titles it of Head and Mother of the Order of the Minor Brothers, but again to don it of the dignity of patriarchal Basilica and papal Chapel; letting the care and the use of this church to the Minor Brothers of Umbria, he/it put under his/her/its immediate jurisdiction, the sanctuary, the convent and everything that belongs to them. To pull from the set The flowers Franciscans Flight 2p. 14

Since his/her/its childhood and until his/her/its last sigh, Jean of Fermo, later known as Jean of the Alverne, was unreservedly God's. To seven years, he/it escaped the children of his/her/its age to retire in lone places and there to meditate the Savior's Passion; already, to keep the purity of his/her/its body and his/her/its cSur, he/it fasted three times the week, flogged itself, carried the cilice and the chain of iron. To ten years he/it is admitted at the Regular canons of his/her/its native city; to thirteen, he/it becomes child of François saint. New Jean - Baptist, he/it constructs himself/itself a cell in the flank of the Alverne mount; there, he/it delivers himself/itself to such penitences that holy François, his/her/its father, appears to him and advise it to curb them to keep his/her/its strengths to God's service.

He/it possessed to the highest degree all religious virtues; he/it was patient, humble, untiring, of a constant charity, it was always ready to help, Although priest, no manual work rebuffed it, so laborious and so unpleasant that it can be; it filled gardener's functions, of porter, at a time to cook, serving the religious at table, mending their clothes, cleaning their cells, maintaining the vestry; it made all without whisper, and without asking ever. Poor, as François himself, he/it didn't have to his/her/its service that an old dress all worn-out and a breviary for God's contracts.
He/it dedicated the last years of his/her/its life in the ministry of the souls, and after fifty years of religious life, to l57;âge of sixty-three years, in his/her/its dear solitude of the Alverne, he/it returned to God August 10, 1322 his/her/its pure soul of the purity of the baptism and rich of one life that had been only a long act of the most austere penitence. To pull the Franciscan Flowers, Flight. 2. P. 196-198

The blissful Vincent of Aquila led an angelic life in a body of flesh, he didn't take into account this one that to crucify it, he only fed it a little bread and some raw herbs mixed of absinthe.
It is to his/her/its immortal and divine soul that he/it gave all his/her/its cares; the detaching the earth, his/her/its miles worries, his/her/its storms, his/her/its meanness, his/her/its false maxims and his/her/its sins, he/it establishes it above the region of the obscurities and clouds, in the blue, quiet, pure and sunny sky of the contemplation and the union to God. Far from the world, in the solitude, he/it spent his/its nights in the prayer, often in the ecstasy and in the rapture.

Of a deep humility, of a purity of angel, of a charming simplicity, of an immutable patience in the middle of the pains, the works and injuries, of a literal poverty in agreement with the advice of the gospel he/it passed in the world without being from the world, and the 7août 1504, after having crossed life of here below brilliant as the ray of light that crosses the foul places without soiling itself/themselves, his/her/its soul flew off in the heart of God to join the angels of which it had been the sSur during his/her/its terrestrial stay. To pull the Franciscan Flowers, Vol.2 p.198-199,

Novellon was only a simple shoemaker and even his/her/its youth was far from being edifying, because it was only a long continuation of sins. But the fear is the beginning of wisdom; to twenty-four years, in the beginning of his/her/its marriage, it fell very dangerously sick, and nearly in front of the sovereign judges it promised to grow better and it kept word, his/her/its conversion was sudden.

"What you will have made to the smallest among mine, had said the Savior, it is myself that you will have made it. "It is while getting to the service of the poor people that Novellon wanted to prove to God his/her/its newly born love. For them, his/her/its charity was inexhaustible; it stripped himself/itself of all, so that his/her/its wife who had first been delighted with his/her/its conversion began to worry of bitter reproaches: "I knew well she said to him, that I would never have the least happiness with you; has now that you strip yours for these lazy persons and these hideous beggars who are sources of contagion by their stink. "God converts it by a miracle; one day that a poor had presented itself, the blessed asked his wife to give him a little bread and this one answered to him, what was true, that the bin was empty; but God's servant insisted; please, he implored, in the name of God give bread to this poor. "And she/it, to prove him the inanity of his/her/its demand, opens the cabinet that she/it believed emptiness; but God had filled it miraculously of beautiful white breads; the poor was fed some, and the wife of Novellon was converted some.

After the death of this last, God's man put the height to his/her/its charities while stripping itself/themselves of all; he even sold his/her/its house to the profit of his/her/its favorites and left to live in a cabin by some hermits. During 56 years he/it repaired the sins of his/her/its youth by one heroic life of penitence; he/it made the pilgrimage of Rome and ten times once the one of Jacques saint of Compostelle; he/it was also the regular host of the tabernacle in the cathedral of his/her/its native city and the canons wondering the there to find the night even when they came to matins, wondered how he/it could enter there; having made the watch, they were stunned to see that the doors of the holy building opened up of them same before Novellon and that they closed again themselves as soon as he/it had cleared them. July 27, 1280, the devout hermit died in his cabin; he belonged to the Third party - Order of François saint since his/her/its conversion. VII magpie beatified it and the shoemakers his/her/its compatriots chose it like Boss. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2 p. 199-203

Dice his/her/its young age, must us his/her/its biographer", she/it already made almost a religious house of his/her/its father's house, carried the cilice customarily, and fasted all vigils of the Notre-Dame feasts to bread and to water; her estoit so much soft and benoiste, debonair and amicable that to an each showed sign of love and gracious and amicable estoit to all. "And later after his/her/its marriage: "She/it adjusted his/her/its husband's house so makes customs of it, that she/it seemed plustôt a monastery that worldly prince chasteau. If someone whatever he/it was and of what quality jusques to the biggest gentilshommes, swore the name of God or saints, she/it made it put an aumosne in the shape of small fine in a cachemaille that her you noit in his/her/its room to this effect, and then distribuoit the all to the poor people. "His/her/its pickets husband answered admirably for ailleur to his/her/its desires of perfection and walked with her in the ways of the holiness. "When one danced in their presence, writes Catherine of Saulx, one of the honor ladies, they were not there attentive, but spoke together of Notre-Seigneur, of the jubilations of the benoist paradise and moutl other and religious matters.

Widow to 27 years, the blissful Louise didn't want to hear to speak of new alliance, but not having dawned had of child of his/her/its marriage, her résolut to dedicate itself/themselves completely to God in a house of Claire saint. His/her/its family's members, his/her/its topics and especially the paupers of which she/it was the mother tried by all means to divert it from his/her/its pickets project, but all was useless. After two years of struggles and sufferings, having distributed his/her/its goods to the poor people and to the churches of the neighborhood, she/it entered with two his/her/its following, Catherine of Saulx and Charlette of Saint-Maurice in the monastery of orb, in Burgundy, founded by Colette saint.His/her/its life was then a perfect mirror of virtues and religious perfection; perfect obedience, charity without boundary-marks especially for the patients, deep humility was the flowers of his/her/its cSur that it offered to her/its divine Spouse and answered to Him while uniting to this beautiful soul in a sublime contemplation, prelude of the eternal union that began for it July 24, 1503; it n57;avait that 42 years. She/it always had a big and respectful reverence for the sons of" his/her/its benoist Father, Eminence holy François ". The pope Grégoire XVI, in 1839, approved the immemorial cult that was returned to him.
To pull From the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p.202

Claire Scefi, Claire the beaming as his/her/its name indicates it, was as it liked to be called herself the small plant of the blissful Father François; it was the brilliant recluse of which the ideal of life had to populate monasteries of Poor Ladies the Christendom all whole.

There was, it is true, desolation to the home and scandal in the city when, having heard the blissful "Father to "pronounce with such a suavity Jesus' very soft Name ", she/it was going to immolate in bloom to his/her/its feet his/her/its youth, and when his/her/its example, dragging his/her/its small Agnès sSur, she/it also made of her a "Poor Lady" as herself. There were even desolation and same scandal in the beginning of the vocation of the blissful Poverello; but as God will compensate the sacrifices pushed until the last degree of the oblivion and the contempt of oneself of this two possessed souls-sSurs of the same ideal evangelical and inebriate of God's same love; because, following the seraphic François, there were not any souls in love of Franciscan perfection, more faithful to his/her/its mind, that the one of Claire of foundation.

Itis her that fought until his/her/its own death to make to triumph him over the obstacles and to keep it intact after the blessed's death; "Very holy Father, she/it said some time before dying to the pope Grégoire IX, who wanted to untie it of his/her/its liabilities opposite the poverty that he/it estimated too strict, untie me of my sins, but no of the obligation to follow the Christ, in his/her/its poverty". And his/her/its holy persistence ends up defeating all obstacles, but it needs twenty-seven years of struggles.
What human feather could tempt to describe the holy friendship that united it to his/her/its seraphic father without deflowering it, because it was a love similar to the one that the angels of the sky carry themselves the some to the autres;l a symbolic mystery will be able to give an idea of it; one evening, the inhabitants of foundation believed that the monastery of Saint-Damien that it lived in and the wood that surrounded it was in fire, because they saw on this side a big red gleam that went up until the sky; having hurried to extinguish the supposedly fire, they found that all was quiet and in the order; it was one of the rare meetings where François had gone to Claire to break with her the bread of the charity; seated in the face one the other they had forgotten the bodily food and they were speaking of God; the gleams that scorched the country were only the visible trace of the love of which their two cSurs was inflamed and whose home was at the sky. It was also the picture of the flame of which they burned one for the other, pure and disembodied flame of which nor the home, nor the food, were not on the earth. It is of this friendship of which God was the tie that was born the second Order.

Lasting forty-two years, holy Claire sacrificed in perfect victim behind the inviolable walls of his/her/its small retirement of Saint-Damien, hardly to one one thousand and half of Saint-Marie-Des-Anges where François on his/her/its side consumed himself/itself for God; during forty-two years, she didn't have for horizon that the narrow valley of Spolète edged by a chain of mountains, but his/her/its influence, to the testimony of Bonaventure saint, was as the powerful and balmy breath of the spring that invades all; it gave birth to a big feminine movement whose influence makes itself again deeply feel, after seven centuries, in the Christian world.

A fact, maybe historic, maybe legend, but surely symbol, show it to us putting in flight an army of twenty thousand Sarrazinses with hand-held the Saint Sacrament and the people of foundation was right to look at holy Claire like a power capable to make take God, so to speak to assure the spiritual and temporal salute of the city and the country. Didn't God see indeed to rise of the level ombrienne as two clouds of prayer, one floating to him - over of Saint-Marie-Des-Anges and the other covering the virginal retirement of Saint-Damien, and who can say the deluge of impregnating graces for the earth that came down from these two clouds? Flowers Franciscans Set 2 p. 203-209

The life of the vicar of Ars is a marvelous mixture of size and simplicity; his/her/its docile soul to the keys of the Holy spirit offers us a mirror of perfection in the different stages of his/her/its life; by turns child, mortified and devout, young man in front of the difficulties of the survey, priest perfects, angel to the altar, apostle in chair, father to the confessional, martyr of the human contradictions and the persecutions of the demon, holy everywhere.
The saint cleaned of Ars was a man to miracles; but biggest of his/her/its miracles was his/her/its life all whole so penitent and so laborious; the night, he didn't sleep one hour in a calm and repairing sleep; he had asked to endure the day for the conversion of the sinners, the night for the delivery of the souls of the purgatory, God had granted it. The fever burned it on his/her/its poor debris; a continual cough tore him the chest; it rose of quarter of hour in quarter of hour, broken of fatigue, bathed of sweat, to try to find out of the bed some relief to his/her/its martyrdom. And when the pain began to calm itself/themselves, his/her/its decreased intensity, the poor old man, by a heroic effort renewed every night, pulled itself to rest before him to have tasted and took his/her/its long and rough work day cheerfully.

He/it was so then weak, that he/it only went while crawling of a chair to the other, while falling of his/her/its furniture, while leaning to the wall of his/her/its room. There was there, to his/her/its door of the souls in the ties of the sin. The love of these souls, the thirst of their salute made him light all sacrifices.

Thursday August 4, 1859, after one life whose details make quiver the nature, at two o'clock in the morning, without jolt, without agony, the saint's soul tertiary vicar, flew off by the angels to make happier the Paradise.
XI magpie canonized it May 31, 1925 to Pull the Franciscan Flowers, Vol.2 p. 209-213

To pull from the Book" The vicar of Ars and his/her/its passion" Work published The Varende Edition The Chalet
Imprimatur Parie May 9, 1986 For the information on his/her/its life, to be going to see the sites that I give you; here, I make broadcast particles of his/her/its taken life only here in the book high.

Here is a small compilation of his/her/its words:
"The virtue passes the cSur of the mothers easily to the heart of the children." P. 23
"It happened to me not to eat then during days entières70;J'obtenais of God everything that I wanted for me as for the autres"p.70 he/it was not able to parler70 Sometimes more of it;
. " I went a good part of the night by the church; I didn't have as much world to confess that to God présent70;Et granted me some graces extraordinary" p.71
"If I had known what waited for me while returning me in Ars, I would have preferred to die" p.71

The view of a picture is sometimes necessary only to touch us and to convert us; often the pictures almost as hit us greatly that the very things that they represent" p.74

"Mr. the Vicar, why do speak therefore - you so low when you pray, and so strong when you preach"? Here is the saint's retort, very characteristic of his/her/its jolly manner when he/it was not under the weapons: " It is that, while I preach, I speak to deaf or to people who sleep, but when I pray, I speak to God who is to him never, sourd70; "p.76

Start with washing your mind of the terrestrial things to think only about God. My friend, or you will be religious or you will be damné70; p.77
"I made everything, he/it said, to bring my men to receive communion four times the year; if they had listened me, they would be saints70; "p.122
"I received two letters today: in one one says that I am a saint, in the other that I am an impostor. The first doesn't have me anything added, the second doesn't have me anything removed." p.132
"The Demon is a personal and living being and no a fiction of p.147 nightmare".. The Grapnel has the peasant name that holy Jean Vianney gives to the Demon.
"One gets used to all, he/it answered his/its priest and Toccanier friend: the Grapnel and me we are almost friends" "That is the Grapnel, furious of the although one makes ici70; "p.149
- Is this well God's will that I accomplish at the moment? The conversion of only one soul she/it is not worth better than all prayers that I could make in the p.157 solitude"

"God doesn't want me here: let's return in Ars70; p.168" All was lost therefore, he/it exclaimed; and well, all is retrouvé!70;Je won't leave you anymore! "He/it made several times the tour of the place, sustained by his/her/its partner and blessing his/her/its herd. More he/it entered to the Providence where, in spite of his/her/its weariness, he/it says the prayer of in the evening, according to the former custom, and was going to lie down finally.. p.169

It was in Philomène saint, to" his/her/its small saint" that the vicar of Ars assigned the prodigies who enriched Ars, the distinguished graces, the miracles enfin70;p. 177

The word used by these eulogies, he/it had for her a "ardent and nearly chivalrous" love. He/it invoked it and it was his/her/its" dear small saint", his/her/its" consul", his/her/its" figurehead", his/her/its" loaded business close to God" p.177

& R.P copy. Paul O'Sullivan, o.p. (E.D.M)

"Deposit it, deposit your slate on the altar of Philomène saint; this one will heal you. Tell to him that if she/it doesn't want to return you your voice, she/it yields you his! She/it regained the speech: I had not spoken anymore for two years (tubercular Laryngitis) and six years that I suffered cruelly." p.180" has the priests who see the Lord every day to the holy sacrifice of the p.181 Mass"

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After the death of his/her/its parents, the blissful François of Pésaro, all young again, distributed his/her/its goods to the poor people, donned the dress of the penitence and lived in hermit. To the imitation of his/her/its blessed Father the Patriarch of foundation, he/it built three small churches; two on the Granaro mount, around his/her/its native city; to the first he/it attached a hospice for the pilgrims and the travelers; it is in the second that he/it had to make to the Creator his/her/its soul one day all pure; the third, constructed on the mount San Bartholo, was, during his/her/its life, his/her/its privileged; because of the solitude that there reigned all favorable to the contemplative life, it is there that he/it lived.

But François' holy life cannot remain a long time unknown; some visitors came to ask for his/her/its advice, some theologians consulted it, some disciples asked him to drive them on the road of the holiness, and the devout hermit became thus a master of spiritual life, and to feed itself/themselves corporally son in the Christ he took a besace and himself end beggar. Lasting fifty years that he/it built the surrounding regions by austerity and the piety of his/her/its life, the reverence that it inspired had its death increased only constantly also was a triumph and Magpie IX had the cult ratified only that one had not quit to return he since five centuries. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. P. 214-216

However the saint was hurried to come back to his/her/its native city; it is there that he had to crown his/its heroic life again by one life more heroic. The father of Roch, united to the kings of France and Hungary, was governor of the city of Montpellier; to twenty years the future saint, having lost his/her/its parents, was possessor of an immense fortune. By love for God, in full youth, he/it exchanged his/her/its goods, his/her/its race, his/her/its brightness future against one miserable life passed to the sounds of the plague-striken, crowned by a death in jail, entered in the Third Order of François saint, he/it started with selling everything that he/it had the very paternal and distributed the price of it to the poor people, he/it let to his/its uncle the care of the his/her/its manorial earths, then covered of the poor dress of the pilgrims, he/it left to feet for Rome. There, as well as in Césène and to Pleasure he/it got to the service of the patients and the plague-striken; in a last city, he/it was hit painfully of an arrow to the thigh and injured. After summary cares, him résolut to return in his/her/its country while begging his/her/its bread; exhausted of fatigue and fever during this journey, and rebuffed appeared a rich man whom he/it asked for alms, he/it retired in a neighboring wood, and to all extremity, he/it spread on the naked earth. The Lord feeds it miraculously while sending him every day a dog to carry him to eat, and it is in his/her/its company of this animal supporter that the religious imagery usually represents it.

His/her/its uncle was then governor of Montpellier, and the entire province delivered to the dissensions and the unrests. The arrival, in the country, of a stranger, indifferent to the things of the earth and solely occupied to those of the eternity provoked some suspicions and one threw it in jail. Five years happened in this sad stay, he/it was of an admirable patience; he/it had been sufficient to him of a word to make itself/themselves recognize his/her/its uncle and to be raised to the top of honors, this word, he/it pronounced it never.
As for the holy prisoner his/her/its end felt to approach, it asked for a priest and when this one penetrated in the dark prison, it found it floods a celestial clarity and the radiant saint, some more brilliant rays escaped again; to the prodigy's news treads it ran and it is in the middle of this belated apotheosis that the saint exhaled.

By his/her/its body, one found a shelf on which a hand of another world had engraved these lines: "I announce that all those that were reached of the pestilence, will resort to the protection of Roch, will be delivered of it & raquo And the history of the centuries that followed proved the truth of this prophecy. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2 p. 216 -219

The persecutions of the men are terrifying to the man, but those of the demon are it well more to him; it was at last that the blissful Paule was in mound during a big part of his/her/its life.

First religious Clarisse to the monastery of Mantua, she/it was chosen soon like abbess, and her he/it was three times. The Bad, jealous of his/her/its high holiness, bus since the childhood she/it despised the world, and it is to the age of fifteen years that entry at the Clarisseses she/it became a mirror of piety, of t penitence of religious perfection; jealous more more souls that she/it especially dragged in his/her/its glorious wake thanks to his/her/its sweetness, to his/her/its advice full of wisdom and prudence, grace to his/her/its holy examples when she/it was superior, harassed it of one thousand manners, tortured it, tortured it while using all resources of his/her/its infernal intelligence. But the blissful, full trustworthy in God was at the height of this supreme test, and she/it triumphed some.

The Very - high compensated it abundantly of these terrifying struggles in side in his/her/its soul the ecstasy and the rapture, and by addition, August 18, 1514, after 56 years of religious life, gave him kingdom of the heaven with his/her/its glory and his/her/its happiness without limits and without end. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2s. p. 219-220

"Vernal rose of charity, lily of virginity, brilliant star. Oh Louis, vase of holiness, asks for us the Lord. "
It is in these magnificent accents of poetry and truth that the Franciscan liturgy implores the young and glorious bishop of Toulouse, holy Louis of Anjou. Twenty-three years, during which he/it unites whole and the purity of the angel and the anchorite's penitence were sufficient to him to reach the highest summit of the Christian asceticism. Grand-nephew of Louis saint, king of France, son of Charles II, king of Naples and presumptive heir of his/her/its crown, Louis of Anjou, after one childhood where the purity and the mortification, of the two guardian virtues one of the other shone an admirable burst, spent the years of his/her/its adolescence in captivity, serving the hostage with his/her/its two brothers and fifty young Lords so that his/her/its father, makes prisoner by Pierre, king of Aragon, can regain his/her/its liberty. During this hard training of life, not only he/it practices more more heroically that in the past the virtues of patience, humility and resignation, to God's will, foundations of all other, but he/it endeavored again to start learning his/her/its young mates of misfortune the mysterious sweets of the cross, while fighting their sadness, while raising their courage, while making them appreciate the treasure of the adversity. Fallen seriously sick, he/it made vow to enter in the Franciscan order if he/it regained health; two religious of this Order charged of his/her/its education had made him appreciate it. Returned to the liberty, the soul ripened by the test and by God's grace, he/it was only twenty-one years old when the bishopric of Toulouse was imposed him by the Pope Boniface VIII, because by age it came so hardly out of adolescence, it had the prudence of the old men and the wisdom of the saints however.

His/her/its high reputation had preceded it in his/her/its Episcopal city and it was received there with demonstrations of intense joy. Since his/her/its entry in the city, his/her/its only aspect is sufficient to convert a sinner that since long years stagnated in the most criminal habits. By the grace of his/her/its chaste maintenance, the serenity of his/her/its virginal forehead, the beauty of his/her/its face as ingenuous as nice, the young bishop inspired to this sinner a bitter repentance of his/her/its mistakes. Touched to the deepest of his/her/its cSur, this poor wretch exclaimed: "Our bishop, is a saint. "

Saint bishop, him he/it was, and he/it answered the expectations of this enthusiastic welcome fully. Placed on the candlestick, in God's house, he/it flooded it of a light torrent; model accomplishes the sheep and pastors, of the men of the century and the ministers of the sanctuary, it drew to all without distinction lign offs it of the duty under all his/her/its shapes. But although bishop, he/it remained Franciscan; he/it wore the dress of it, practiced austerities of it, same than most his/her/its brothers in religion, him, the pontiff, the royal child he/it was poor, castigated his/her/its body by hard penitences to keep the vivid purity of it; he/it especially benefitted of hours quiet and mysterious of the night to pass of long eves in prayers before the Prisoner of the tabernacle, and to unite more and more closely to his/her/its mute immolations.

But he/it had gone up so to speak only to the earth, he/it only embalmed it one instant of the perfumes of his/her/its virtues and it is in full efflorescence that this beautiful lily was transplanted in the floors of the Paradise. Saint Louis of Anjou was only aged of 23 years when he died; he was canonized of even living it of his/her/its mother, April 7, 1317, twenty years only after his/her/its precious death. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2.p.220-223s

Set 2 - August 22, 1423

The seven Rejoicings of the a lot of Saint Virgin Marie

To the reports of Mariano of Florence and Wadding, historiographer of the order, toward the year 1423, a young very religious man to the Virgin Saint took the dress of Minor Brothers. Before entering in the order, he/it had the habit to maintain a crown of flowers around d57;une enacts Marie; but become beginner, he/it was impossible to him to accomplish this act of subsidiary piety, and so big was his/her/its pain, that him résolut to go in the world. Before leaving the convent, he/it implored the help of his/her/its Mother of the sky, prostrate before his/her/its statue, where he/it liked to ask it, Marie condescended to appear to him, to comfort it, and to teach him to deposit to his/her/its feet a crown more beautiful and more precious than the one that he plaited him previously with ephemeral roses; "Recite, tells to him her, once l 'dominical prayer and ten times the angelic Greeting in honor of each of the rejoicings of which shudders my cSur in the Conception of the eternal Verb, the visit to my cousin Elisabeth, the birth of my divine Son, the worship of the Maguses, Jesus' recovery to the temple, his/her/its resurrection and my assomption to the sky. "
The young beginner, strengthened in his/her/its vocation, was faithful on this practice and every day he recited the crown of Marie's rejoicings. Such was, he/it decorated, the gracious origin of this Franciscan rosary. Several times during the course of the centuries, the Queen of the sky condescended to make know how much this practice of devotion in his/her/its honor was pleasant to him.
A plenary indulgence is granted to all members of the three Franciscan families, every time that they recite this crown of prayers; the cordières themselves have the right to the same favor. It is today that the Missal and the Breviary Franciscans celebrate the feast of the seven rejoicings of Notre-Dame. To pull from the Flowers Franciscan Vol.2 p. 223-227
The history of the Franciscan Rosary of the 7 Rejoicings

Let's "confide to our guardian angel to watch over us and to hand us to the order if it is necessary, but, also ask the Virgin Marie to come with us in these 15 minutes maintenance lover with God Trinitaire.
Our guardian angel is there to come with us to say the rosary with us. He/it is accompanied by a multitude of angels.
The rosary is the efficient weapon to avoid to fall in the arms of the shrewd, this devil who takes miles different ways to stop us from reciting it every day.
Let's hold this hand opened of our cSur, to welcome all those and those that want that we handed to the Virgin Marie their demands, their joys, their pains, their most secret desires with Faith, and the hope to receive an answer of Our Mother of the Sky. "Mrs. Denise Christiaenssens o.f.s.
Saint Louis, king of France, o.f.s.patron of the Brother of the Third party - Order (1215-1270)
Louis IX was a saint, and as man and as king, by his/her/its private virtues and by his/her/its royal qualities.
Among the high carried virtues until to the heroism, that became to play more in day the distinctive and characteristic features of this elite nature, his/her/its big and strong personal habits of religion, of fairness, of charity, were the pure sources, the fertile principles of his/her/its exceptional reign. It is the religion of Louis saint, this is - has - to say, intelligence and the practice of the gospel, that attached it, in his/her/its quality so dearly kissed of disciple of jésus - Christ to his/her/its duties towards God, d57;où derived for him his/her/its duties towards his/her/its people.

The fairness, a few stern, that appears us like one the most striking marks of his/her/its moral personality is certainly king's virtue, The unction of the gospel and the one of François saint of which he/it was the son by the Third party - Order, joined to the goodness natural of his/her/its cSur moderated it without weakening it and returned it again more royal. The temperament of charity and the firmness that appear in the conduct and the decisions of Louis saint are a lot of man who has the cross engraved in his/her/its cSur but that holds the scepter yet and that knows to make act of justice as well as devotion.

His/her/its ascetic and transcendent virtues, far from harming his/her/its sovereign's duties, surrounded on the contrary, since living being, his/her/its forehead and his/her/its diadem of a halo of which benefitted his/her/its power: "Many wondered, says Guillaume of Chartres, of that that a man so humble, so restful, nor robust of body, nor hard in his/her/its action, could exercise a pacific domination thus on one so big kingdom, on so much and of so big and of so powerful seigneurs70;Il is necessary to assign it no to the terrestrial power, but to the divine virtue."

"All his/her/its topics, says Geoffroi of Beaulieu, big and small, had it in respect and in fear, because of his/her/its justice and his/her/its holiness". During all his/her/its reign, to a continual attention to the business of the state, to a love singular of the justice, he/it joined the austerities of the cloister, often visited the hospitals where he/it often took care of on the knees the patients and the lepers, and dedicated several hours every day to the prayer. As one made him the reproach one day of it: "In truth, says - him, the men are strange, one makes me a crime of my assiduity to the prayer, and one would not say word, if I used the hours that I give to the game or hunt" there.
All religious Orders were dear to him, but between all, those of François saint and holy Dominique inspired him a special affection. If it had been free to follow the inspiration of his/her/its cSur he/it had given up the scepter and left the pure world to don the Franciscan dress, but constrained that he/it was to carry the burden of honors, he/it wanted the less to associate to the Third party - Order and in the secret of his/her/its palace to follow the rigorous life of the sons of the most fervid of François of foundation. In 1239, his/her/its piety pushed it to purchase some Venetians the saint crowns thorns hired by Beaudoin of Constantinople as pledge of a considerable sum that it never been able to acquits, and to shelter such a treasure, it constructed the Saint - Chapel splendid monument, vaie notches stones that, currently again, is one of the architectural glories of Paris. Two times he/it undertook a crusade to deliver the tomb of the Christ of the hands of the infidels, made prisoner during the first, he/it showed so many virtues during his/her/its captivity, that the Moslems them - same had nicknamed" it the just sultan" and offered him to be their king if he/it wanted to kiss Mahomet's religion. It is during his/her/its second crusade that he/it died of the pestilence in view of Tunis, August 25, 1270.

In his/her/its to stretch childhood, the devout queen Blanche of Castile, his/her/its mother, had custom to repeat to him frequently: "My son, I like you with the whole tenderness of which a mother is capable; however, me préfèrerais to see you falling death to my feet rather than to know you guilty ever of only one deadly sin." These words were like a shield in the soul of the young prince, him their had present constantly to the mind and they always kept it in the fear of the Lord. He/it was what all king should be: " an instrument of the religion in God's hands, to make reign Jesus - Christ in his/her/its cSur and in his/her/its kingdom", and it is largely by this humble and penitent ascetic who served the lepers on the knees that the destinies of the French monarchy were fixed. The Flowers Franciscans Set 2 page 227-232

The human souls generally have natural, good, indifferent or bad tendencies; one can say that at the blissful Timothy, this predominant tendency was God's thirst, and as it advanced in age, it felt to become more pronounced more strongly in it this desire of one perfect life, feeling in his/her/its cSur this indefinable emptiness that the Very High puts to the cSur of the one that it wants to possess without sharing. A long time he/it implored the Sky to make know him his/her/its way, and after long and ardent prayers, he/it entered in the order of François saint. He/it forgot the world so quickly that one had said that he/it had never known it, and he/it became well quickly and as naturally a religious perfect, it is - to - to say a man who made abnegation of oneself completely to conform entirely to the demonstrated divine will either by the superior, either by the situations, either by the events, is even by the mischief of the men, not that God wants this mischief that is an abuse of the liberty positively, but he permits it and, in his/her/its power and his/her/its goodness, he knows how to make the profit of those that likes it turn it; because, that deserved to the martyrs their crowns otherwise the persecutors! Who felt the virtue of the saints otherwise the tests that they had to endure! Here is why our blessed's thoughts, his/her/its words, his/her/its actions and his/her/its desires, all of it only had him an object: Only God; God was the center of his/her/its affections; toward only God he sighed, for God, he repressed the natural movements to be only a docile instrument, in his/her/its hands. He/it was one of these souls beatified by the Savior in his/her/its interview on the mountain; a thirsty soul of justice, that means holiness and perfection. His/her/its piety and his/her/its devotion in l57;oblation of the divine Sacrifice deserved him intoxicating minks of the God hidden in the Eucharist. August 26, 1504, day of his/her/its blissful death, he/it finally entered in the eternal possession and in the vision without veil of The one that he/it wanted so and so much sought-after on the earth. To pull The Flowers Franciscans Set 2 p 232-234

As Genevieve saint of Nanterre, manager of Paris, as saint Pascal Baylon, the lover of the Eucharist, as saint German of Pibrac, as the saint cleaned of Ars and Bernadette of Lourdes, as so much and so many others to the innocent and holy soul, Bernard of Offida was first a shepherd, because the divine Pasteur seems to have a predilection for these humble and these small.
Soft, pure, innocent as the lambkins that he/it grazed, he/it was at the same time apostle and he/it knew how to gather the other shepherds of his/her/its age to speak them of God and to invite them to ask it with him. One so beautiful childhood was crowned by one life religious beautiful non month; it entered at the Brothers Minor Capuchins as Brother convers. The care of the patients fell to him, it took care of the Christ's suffering members as the Christ himself, because it saw it in them, and the various communities in which it lived were built by its examples and balmy of his/her/its virtues.

At the age of 60 years, he/it was named collection taker and like another Felix of Cantalice, he/it even knew in the middle of the world how to live in the solitude and the sanctuary of his/her/its soul and while soliciting the temporal help, he/it spilled to full hands the treasures spiritual, consoling the poor people and the grief-strickens, converting the sinners, encouraging the weak, soothing the disputes, re-establishing the union in the divided families; he/it was in a word God's good worker, another Christ passing as him while making the good. When the infirmities of the old age didn't allow him anymore to leave, he/it fills porter's load, and as his/her/its high holiness was known, those that it visited previously went now to it to collect the spiritual kindness, of which it was the depository; often, same God showed the credit that this good servant had by him in him départissant a miraculous power. He/it even revived a child while applying to his/her/its good Felix saint some that he/it had big devotion; he/it liked this big saint, his/her/its brother in religion, took it for model; having been a supporter copies God's friend, he/it was after a long life of 90 years admitted to share his/her/its eternal happiness, that he/it bought at the cost of the same tests and the same merits. To pull The Flowers Franciscans Set 2 p.234-235

Prayer to all saints of the Seraphic order.

Famous holy, that, illuminated of celestial clarities, imitated holy François so well, pray for us, so that after having been here below full of courage and devotions, we can be happy with you in the sky.
V. Lord, place us with your saints in l 'eternity
. R. Rendez us participants of their glory.

Prayer

Please that your grace to make beneficent our piety; you rejoice us by the devout commémoraison of the Martyrs, the Confessors, the Virgins, and all Saints of the order of the Miners, condescend to drive us with them to the joys of the eternity. By Christ Notre-Seigneur. So either him.

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