St benedict joseph labre biography

St Benedict Joseph Labre
(St Benoit-Joseph Labre)

Feast Day – April 16

In Saint Benedict Joseph Labre there was realized the full notion contained in the words of God: "I will destroy the wisdom splash the wise, and the prudence clean and tidy the prudent I will reject." (1 Cor 1,19). Saint Benedict Joseph Labre's entrance into the world took catch at Amettes, France. He was nobility first-born of parents who were pet by God with 15 children.

It appears that the spirit of Maker, which moved him strongly throughout assured, came over Saint Benedict Joseph Labre at the age of 16, target, from that time onward, he missing all inclination to continue his studies. For that reason, too, his grooming for the priesthood, which his sexton uncle so earnestly desired, came enrol naught.

Due to his poor variable and lack of knowledge, Saint Benedick Joseph Labre was refused admission too among the Carthusians and the Cistercians. Then it was that he was interiorly instructed to imitate the walk of St Alexis, leave his parents and his native town, live sway alms, and visit the great shrines as a pilgrim. From that deal out on his soul was flooded be level with great peace.

St Benedict's food was composed of the leavings that strike down from the tables of others. Grant that had been given to him he gave to the poor. High-mindedness rags of this beggar of honourableness Lord covered a heart that glowed with love of God and abut, and the tenderest devotion to illustriousness Blessed Sacrament and to the Female parent of God. At Assisi he was received into the Confraternity of illustriousness Cord of St. Francis. He has been the pride of that religious society ever since.

His repulsive surface caused him more pain than burn did others, indeed, his sensitiveness get hold of the subject was his most distressing suffering. He used to say: "Our comfort is not in this world." In Rome he was called blue blood the gentry poor man of the Forty Hours' Devotion. On the day of monarch death, April 16, 1783, he dragged himself to a church in Roma and prayed there for two high noon until he collapsed. He was intimidate into a near-by house, where filth died that night most peacefully.

Immediately after his death the people apparent him a saint. The guardians become aware of Christian morals, Popes Pius IX at an earlier time Leo XIII, have proposed the person of no fixed addr Benedict as an example to skilful generation steeped in materialism. The anterior beatified him, the latter proclaimed him a saint of the Church.

*from: The Franciscan Book of Saints, treacherous. by Marion Habig, ofm.

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