How did st louis bertrand became a saint

Saint Louis Bertrand was born in the year , the oldest of the eight children of his good Christian parents, at Valencia in Spain.

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He was in every way a model of modesty and obedience, and it was foreseen that God had some particular role for him. He devoted himself to the sick in the hospitals. He desired to enter the Order of Saint Dominic, but for some time could not obtain his parents' permission. Finally, in , he became professed in the Dominican Order, then was ordained a priest in when he was only 21 years old, according to the desire of his Superiors.

In , at the age of twenty-five, he was made master of novices, and in this post he formed many great servants of God. It is said that despite his strictness, he was so gentle that his chastisements were more agreeable to his novices than the favors of their best friends. In , when the plague broke out in Valencia, his Superiors, not wanting to lose him, sent him elsewhere for a time; he preached with great success and was endowed with the spirit of prophecy.

He continued his preaching when recalled to Valencia. In he obtained leave to embark for Carthagena in the American mission, and there converted vast multitudes to the Faith.

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He hoped to obtain the grace of martyrdom there, but God conserved his life. He was favored with the gift of miracles, and, after praying for the gift to be understood without an interpreter, since one of those had disappointed him seriously, he preached in his mother tongue, Spanish, but was understood by all the natives of various tribes. In his mission at Tubera he himself baptized 10, Indians, without counting those his companions baptized, and obliged them to burn their idols and the sites of their detestable sacrifices.

Often his gentleness charmed his worst enemies. He preached also at Capicoa and Paluato, having established missions there. He refused all remuneration; he brought down rain after a drought.