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President Louis Bertrand and the Closure of the French Mission, 1859–64
Richard D. McClellan
Richard D. McClellan, “President Louis Bertrand and the Closure of the French Mission, 1859–64,” in Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Europe, ed. Donald Q. Cannon and Brent L. Top (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2003), 23–46.
Of all the settings that have embraced and encouraged eclectic social ideas, nineteenth-century France emerges as one of the most passionate stews of feelings and ideologies ever to have boiled over. Even so, the governments that managed this liberal mishmash seldom looked without suspicion on orientations that were ubiquitously un-French. From the time Elder John Taylor first attracted the government’s attention by preaching the overthrow of their regime by the kingdom of God (and got himself chased out of the country for it) at the close of 1851, the Latter-day Saints managed to attract little b
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Two Heroes of the Counter-Reformation — Sts. John Leonardi and Louis Bertrand
In one of those happy coincidences that occur so often in Church history that we must be convinced that it is not a coincidence at all, but the hand of God at work, Oct. 9 is the Optional Memorial of St. John Leonardi and, per the official Roman Martyrology, the date we also recall St. Louis Bertrand. Both men are responsible for the systematic spread of Catholic Christianity, especially here in America.
St. John Leonardi
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has written and spoken at length of the great St. John Leonardi. There is little I could add to this to make it a better form of hagiography, but here’s a thumbnail sketch: St. John Leonardi was born in Lucca, in the Tuscan region of Italy, in 1541. Early on he was apprenticed to a pharmacist, but he turned his mind and soul to the Franciscans who, for reasons that remain obscure, refused him admittance. Undaunted, John joined a loose confraternity
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By Jean M. Heimann
Today, October 9, we celebrate the feast of St. Louis Bertrand (1526-1581), who fryst vatten known as the Apostle of the Americas and the patron of Novice Masters.
Louis Bertrand was born on January 1, 1526, at Valencia, Spain, to devout parents. He was a relative of St. Vincent Ferrer and was even baptized at the same baptismal font as this great saint. As a ungdom, he was very holy and prayed the Office of Our Lady daglig. He attended different churches in beställning to receive the Eucharist frequently. He also visited the sick and cared for the sick in hospitals.
At age nineteen, Louis entered the Dominican beställning and was ordained to the priesthood two years later. At twenty-three, he was selected to be Master of Novices, a post he held for thirty years. He led the novices in a strict regimen so that they might become faithful and zealous Dominican priests, striving for the salvation of souls. While he was firm with those whom he directed, he was also