Saints of the Day & More

The temporal environment in which God wanted put into the world is just as new winds blowing in the Church after the Council of Trent. It opens in the lush baroque art and piety to the foundations leading to new forms and styles to virgins who attempt to reform all that fought Trento. Languishing on Renaissance Rome drunk up to make it dull and unable to discover the evils brewing and exploded with Luther. That's why new saints time: Pius V, Charles Borromeo, Ignatius of Loyola, Juan de Ribera, Teresa of Ávila, John of the Cross, Francis of Sales, Philip Neri, Francis Cariacciolo ... and goals. Popes, poets, teachers, bishops, writers and apostles to a new time-India-grown seriously trying to return to prayer, to flee the luxurious, the confessionals, worship the Eucharist and preaching witnessing poverty with attention to destitute and sick. The year 1563 was interpreted by one of the biographers of Francis Caracciolo as an omen, was when the Council of Trent ends and is also the ...

Francis Xavier wasborn in the castle of Xavier in Spain on April 7 1506, corresponding to the expectations of his parents, graduated from the famous university of Paris. During these years he was fortunate to live side by side, sharing a room including the pension, with Peter Faber, who will be like a Jesuit and then blessed him, and with a strange student, quite late in life to sit on the benches of school, called Ignatius. Ignatius understood very well that soul: "A big heart and a soul so noble," he said "can not be satisfied with the ephemeral earthly honors. Your ambition should be the glory that shines forever. " The Feast of the Assumption, 1534, in the crypt of the church of Montmartre, Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola and five colleagues were consecrated to God by vow of absolute poverty, and decided to go to the Holy Land from there to begin his missionary work , putting the total dependence of the Pope. Ordained priests in Venice and abandoned the perspect...