Feast Day of St. Lous IX, King and Confessor

St. Louis IX, The Seraphic Father, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Today is the feast day of St. Louis IX, patron of the Third Order of St. Francis. This great saint was born in 1215. By the age of eleven, he became king of France. He led crusades against that wicked religion called Islam. He was a defender of justice. He was professed into the Third Order of St. Francis. He spent many hours in prayer and penance. Throughout his life, he kept in his heart the admonishment of his mother:

"I would rather see you dead at my feet than guilty of a mortal sin."

Louis IX died in 1270 and canonized in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII. St. Louis IX's monarchial reign ended with King Louis XVI in 1793, who was beheaded by the proponents of that Luciferian secret society called Freemasonry during the French Revolution. It is said that the Great Monarch, who will come soon to restore Christendom to the world as one of the events that follow the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, will come from King Louis XVI's bloodline. More information about the life of St. Louis IX can be found here.

St. Louis IX, please pray for the restoration of Christendom and the Third Order of St. Francis, which has been so deformed by the Novus Ordo's version called the Secular Franciscan Order.

St. Elizabeth of Hungary, pictured above, is the patroness of the Third Order of St. Francis. Her feast day is November 19, the exact day (in 2006) that several of us in Toronto became novices of the Third Order.

May God bless you all.