Saint Louis and Our Time
English · Español Identifier: SD-090. Original Publication: Novedades — Sunday Supplement , November 7, 1948. Author: LIC. OSCAR MÉNDEZ CERVANTES. Topics: Faith and Religious Life; History and the Hispanic World; Politics and Society. By LIC. OSCAR MÉNDEZ CERVANTES History, the teacher of life—as the ancient writer called it—never loses the relevance of its lessons. We are pleased now to recall one of them in the figure, familiar—though less so than he deserves—of that outstanding exemplar of the Middle Ages, the king of France: Louis IX, the Saint; a man of vigor whose heroic practice of every virtue led the Church to raise him to the honors of the altar. In him, God found the most faithful servant; Christendom, the most intrepid champion; the French people, the most loving father. His ascetic life amid the splendor of the throne has something of the magnificent, manly religious spirit of the Hispanic world. An inheritance, no doubt, from his exemplary Spanish mother, Doña B...
