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SAINT FRANCIS BORGIA, CONFESSOR

Francis Borgia at Isabella of Portugal's coffin-
Mariano Salvador Maella

Francis, the fourth Duke of Gandia, first shone as an example of upright life at the court of the Emperor Charles V. When he escorted the body of the Empress Isabella to Granada for burial, seeing in her countenance, so horribly changed by corruption, the fate of all mortals, he bound himself by a vow to abandon all things and to serve only the King of kings.

HE VOWED TO SERVE ONLY THE KING OF KINGS

Therefore, after the death of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, he entered the Society of Jesus. He was chosen by Saint Ignatius as Commissary-General for Spain, and a little later, though against his will, he was selected as the third Prepositor General of the whole Society. Pope Pius V appointed him an associate of Cardinal Allessandrino in an embassy to unite Christian princes against the Turks. Francis undertook this arduous journey and, nevertheless, happily completed his life’s course at Rome, as he would have wished, in the year of salvation 1572. He was added to the number of the saints by Pope Clement X.

PRAYER:

O Lord Jesus Christ, model of true humility and its reward, we beseech you, that as you made blessed Francis one of your glorious imitators by his contempt for earthly honours, grant us to follow his example and to share in his glory. Who live…

Source: An Approved English Translation of the Breviarium Romanum, Burns & Oates, London, 1964

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