Oil dedicated to St Louis Bertrand (Miracle Worker)

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Oil dedicated to St Louis Bertrand (Patron Miracle Worker)

Prayer:

St. Louis Bertrand, patron miracle worker, we come together in simple prayer, seeking your intercession with humble hearts. As a community, we recognize your special connection to miracles, and we ask for your guidance and assistance. We, in our moments of need, turn to you for hope and divine intervention. We acknowledge your reputation as a miracle worker, and we ask that you intercede on our behalf. Help us, dear St. Louis Bertrand, in our challenges and difficulties, that we may witness the miracles of grace and healing in our lives. Together, we entrust our prayers to your powerful intercession, trusting in the miracles that you can bring to our lives. Amen.

Scripture:

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” – Psalm 119:11

St Louis Bertrand was a Spanish Dominican friar who preached in South America during the 16th century. And known as the “Apostle to the Americas”. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

He was grave in demeanour and apparently without any sense of humour. Yet had a gentle and sweet disposition that greatly endeared him to those with whom he came in contact. While he could lay no claim to great intellectual gifts, he applied himself assiduously to study. In 1547 he ordained to the priesthood by the archbishop of Valencia, St. Thomas of Villanova.

He was appointed to the office of master of novices in the convent at Valencia. The duties of which he discharged at different intervals for an aggregate of thirty years. When the plague broke out in Valencia in 1557 he devoted himself to the sick and dying. He prepared the dead for burial and interred them with his own hands.

When the plague had subsided, the zeal of the holy novice master sought to extend the scope of his already large ministry into the apostolate of preaching. Although it is said that “his voice was raucous, his memory treacherous, his carriage without grace”, he became a fervent preacher.