From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

March 22nd - Blessed Isnard de Chiampo
(distinguished preacher, known for miracles )
d. 1244

Born in Chiampo (near Vicenza), Italy; cultus confirmed in 1919. From
the springtime of the Dominicans in Bologna, Italy, comes the story of
Blessed Isnard. He was born into a wealthy family but little else is
known of his boyhood. In 1219, as a student at the University of
Bologna, he met Saint Dominic and decided to join his new order. Soon
after completing his novitiate in Bologna, Isnard distinguished
himself as a preacher. His first assignment was in Pavia, where his
work of founding and ruling the priory was complicated by the war
between the pope and the emperor.

Blessed Isnard plunged courageously into the work. He knew that he was
risking death in doing so, and a less stout-hearted man might have
found some excuse for going to a more peaceful place. Blessed Isnard
insisted on meeting the situation head-on.

One of his first encounters was with the forces of evil, quite
undisguised. A possessed man had become the mouthpiece of the devil
and was being used by heretics to discredit the preaching of the friar
who had so recently come to Pavia to preach the faith. The devil,
speaking through the lips of the possessed man, issued a challenge to
the friar: "If you are from God, cast me out and cure this man."

Isnard realized that one does not lightly take up open battle with the
powers of wickedness. The condition of the poor man, whose name was
Martin, was enough to strike terror into any heart. The challenge came
when Isnard was in the pulpit preaching. The possessed man was brought
into the church, screaming, and in convulsions. The preacher realized
that he must cure him or lose the interest of his audience in the
cause of Christ.

Stepping down from the pulpit, he approached the possessed man, put
his arms around him and, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
demanded that the evil spirits depart. Martin was freed from his
tormentor, and he ended his days, according to legend, as a lay
brother in the local monastery.

At another time when Isnard was preaching, a hardened heretic refused
to listen to him and called out loudly, "I shall believe in the
sanctity of this man only if he makes that barrel on the corner of the
square come loose and strike me." Immediately, the barrel jumped from
its place and struck the scoffer, breaking his leg.

Isnard spent his life preaching and working in Pavia, regardless of
the fact that in spite of his life of self-mortification "he was
excessively fat and people used to ridicule him about it when he was preaching." At his death, it presented a quite different appearance
from the godless and strife-ridden city it was when he had arrived
(Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Dorcy).


Bible Quote:
Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said:
This is of a truth the prophet, that is to come into the world. (John
6:14)

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"Some pursue their own taste and satisfaction in spiritual things in
preference to the way of perfection which consists in denying their
own wishes and tastes for the love of God, If such persons perform
some exercise through obedience, even though it suit their
inclination, they soon lose the wish for It, and all devotion in It,
because their only pleasure is in doing what their own will directs,
which ordinarily would be better left undone. The Saints did not act
thus".
--St. John of the Cross

The blessed Seraphino, a Capuchin lay-brother, said to a friend that
he would be glad to be in the house of Loretto or at Rome, that he
might serve as many Masses as possible. When it was suggested that he
might ask this favor of the Superiors, who would have readily granted
it, he replied: =E2=80=98=E2=80=98Oh, not that! Any holy desire would be pr= ofaned by
one's own will, and every good intention ought to be subject to
obedience, the only true directress of all holy thoughts."

("A Year with the Saints". March - Mortification)
--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

March 22nd - Blessed Isnard de Chiampo
(distinguished preacher, known for miracles )
d. 1244

Born in Chiampo (near Vicenza), Italy; cultus confirmed in 1919. From
the springtime of the Dominicans in Bologna, Italy, comes the story of
Blessed Isnard. He was born into a wealthy family but little else is
known of his boyhood. In 1219, as a student at the University of
Bologna, he met Saint Dominic and decided to join his new order. Soon
after completing his novitiate in Bologna, Isnard distinguished
himself as a preacher. His first assignment was in Pavia, where his
work of founding and ruling the priory was complicated by the war
between the pope and the emperor.

Blessed Isnard plunged courageously into the work. He knew that he was
risking death in doing so, and a less stout-hearted man might have
found some excuse for going to a more peaceful place. Blessed Isnard
insisted on meeting the situation head-on.

One of his first encounters was with the forces of evil, quite
undisguised. A possessed man had become the mouthpiece of the devil
and was being used by heretics to discredit the preaching of the friar
who had so recently come to Pavia to preach the faith. The devil,
speaking through the lips of the possessed man, issued a challenge to
the friar: "If you are from God, cast me out and cure this man."

Isnard realized that one does not lightly take up open battle with the
powers of wickedness. The condition of the poor man, whose name was
Martin, was enough to strike terror into any heart. The challenge came
when Isnard was in the pulpit preaching. The possessed man was brought
into the church, screaming, and in convulsions. The preacher realized
that he must cure him or lose the interest of his audience in the
cause of Christ.

Stepping down from the pulpit, he approached the possessed man, put
his arms around him and, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
demanded that the evil spirits depart. Martin was freed from his
tormentor, and he ended his days, according to legend, as a lay
brother in the local monastery.

At another time when Isnard was preaching, a hardened heretic refused
to listen to him and called out loudly, "I shall believe in the
sanctity of this man only if he makes that barrel on the corner of the
square come loose and strike me." Immediately, the barrel jumped from
its place and struck the scoffer, breaking his leg.

Isnard spent his life preaching and working in Pavia, regardless of
the fact that in spite of his life of self-mortification "he was
excessively fat and people used to ridicule him about it when he was preaching." At his death, it presented a quite different appearance
from the godless and strife-ridden city it was when he had arrived
(Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Dorcy).


<><><><>
"Some pursue their own taste and satisfaction in spiritual things in
preference to the way of perfection which consists in denying their
own wishes and tastes for the love of God, If such persons perform
some exercise through obedience, even though it suit their
inclination, they soon lose the wish for It, and all devotion in It,
because their only pleasure is in doing what their own will directs,
which ordinarily would be better left undone. The Saints did not act
thus".
--St. John of the Cross

=C2 The blessed Seraphino, a Capuchin lay-brother, said to a friend that
he would be glad to be in the house of Loretto or at Rome, that he
might serve as many Masses as possible. When it was suggested that he
might ask this favor of the Superiors, who would have readily granted
it, he replied: =E2=80=98=E2=80=98Oh, not that! Any holy desire would be pr= ofaned by
one's own will, and every good intention ought to be subject to
obedience, the only true directress of all holy thoughts."

(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints".=C2 March - Mortification)

Bible Quote:
Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said:
This is of a truth the prophet, that is to come into the world.=C2 (John
6:14)

--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

March 22nd - Blessed Isnard de Chiampo
(distinguished preacher, known for miracles )
d. 1244

Born in Chiampo (near Vicenza), Italy; cultus confirmed in 1919. From
the springtime of the Dominicans in Bologna, Italy, comes the story of
Blessed Isnard. He was born into a wealthy family but little else is
known of his boyhood. In 1219, as a student at the University of
Bologna, he met Saint Dominic and decided to join his new order. Soon
after completing his novitiate in Bologna, Isnard distinguished
himself as a preacher. His first assignment was in Pavia, where his
work of founding and ruling the priory was complicated by the war
between the pope and the emperor.

Blessed Isnard plunged courageously into the work. He knew that he was
risking death in doing so, and a less stout-hearted man might have
found some excuse for going to a more peaceful place. Blessed Isnard
insisted on meeting the situation head-on.

One of his first encounters was with the forces of evil, quite
undisguised. A possessed man had become the mouthpiece of the devil
and was being used by heretics to discredit the preaching of the friar
who had so recently come to Pavia to preach the faith. The devil,
speaking through the lips of the possessed man, issued a challenge to
the friar: "If you are from God, cast me out and cure this man."

Isnard realized that one does not lightly take up open battle with the
powers of wickedness. The condition of the poor man, whose name was
Martin, was enough to strike terror into any heart. The challenge came
when Isnard was in the pulpit preaching. The possessed man was brought
into the church, screaming, and in convulsions. The preacher realized
that he must cure him or lose the interest of his audience in the
cause of Christ.

Stepping down from the pulpit, he approached the possessed man, put
his arms around him and, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
demanded that the evil spirits depart. Martin was freed from his
tormentor, and he ended his days, according to legend, as a lay
brother in the local monastery.

At another time when Isnard was preaching, a hardened heretic refused
to listen to him and called out loudly, "I shall believe in the
sanctity of this man only if he makes that barrel on the corner of the
square come loose and strike me." Immediately, the barrel jumped from
its place and struck the scoffer, breaking his leg.

Isnard spent his life preaching and working in Pavia, regardless of
the fact that in spite of his life of self-mortification "he was
excessively fat and people used to ridicule him about it when he was preaching." At his death, it presented a quite different appearance
from the godless and strife-ridden city it was when he had arrived
(Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Dorcy).


<><><><>
"Some pursue their own taste and satisfaction in spiritual things in
preference to the way of perfection which consists in denying their
own wishes and tastes for the love of God, If such persons perform
some exercise through obedience, even though it suit their
inclination, they soon lose the wish for It, and all devotion in It,
because their only pleasure is in doing what their own will directs,
which ordinarily would be better left undone. The Saints did not act
thus".
--St. John of the Cross

=C2 The blessed Seraphino, a Capuchin lay-brother, said to a friend that
he would be glad to be in the house of Loretto or at Rome, that he
might serve as many Masses as possible. When it was suggested that he
might ask this favor of the Superiors, who would have readily granted
it, he replied: =E2=80=98=E2=80=98Oh, not that! Any holy desire would be pr= ofaned by
one's own will, and every good intention ought to be subject to
obedience, the only true directress of all holy thoughts."

(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints".=C2 March - Mortification)

Bible Quote:
Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said:
This is of a truth the prophet, that is to come into the world.=C2 (John
6:14)

--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
* Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)