Saint louis bertrand biography of rory

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Louis Bertrand, Saint, b. at Valencia, Spain, January 1, 1526; d. October 9, 1581. His parents were Juan Bertrand and Juana Angela Exarch.

Through his father he was related to the illustrious St. Vincent Ferrer, the great thaumaturgus of the Dominican Order. The boyhood of the saint was unattended by any of the prodigies that frequently forecast heroic sanctity.

At an early age he conceived the idea of becoming a Friar Preacher, and despite the efforts of his father to dissuade him, was clothed with the Dominican habit in the Convent of St. Dominic, Valencia, August 26, 1544.

Saint louis bertrand biography of rory

After the usual probation, in which he distinguished himself above all his associates in the qualities of an ideal religious, he pronounced the vows that irrevocably bound him to the life of perfection. The profound significance of his religious profession served as a stimulus to the increase of virtues that already gave evidence of being cast in heroic mould.

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