Louis of Toulouse
Louis of Toulouse (also Ludwig of Anjou ) (* 1274 in Nocera dei Pagani at Salerno, Kingdom of Naples (now Italy ); † August 19, 1297 in Brignoles in France ) from the House of Anjou was archbishop of Toulouse, a Franciscan friar, and is a saint of the Catholic Church. His feast day is August 19.
Life
Ludwig was the second son of the fifteen children of Charles of Anjou, called the lame, the Prince of Salerno and future King Charles II of Naples and his wife Mary of Hungary. He was a great-nephew of Saint King Louis IX by his father. of France, and through his mother a great-grandnephew of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia.
At the request of his grandfather Charles I of Naples, he was raised together with his brothers in France and grew up in Provencal Brignoles. After Ludwig's father was advised on June 5, 1284 during the Battle of the Aragonese Naples in captivity, his grandfather died († January 7, 1285 ). During this time, Louis met the brother François Brun of the Order of Friars Minor of St. Francis of Assisi, who became his companion and took great influence on him. François Brun and his friar Pierre Scarrerii followed Ludwig, his brothers Robert and Raymond - Berengar, as this is in accordance with the signed on July 25, 1288 agreement in which Charles II regained his freedom, as hostages for their father went into captivity.
Charles of sixty young noblemen accompanied sons were detained from 1288 to 1295. As whereabouts them then the high altitude in the mountains of Tarragona Ciurana was first Montcada in Barcelona, assigned. Treated respectfully, they could indeed make their daily routines free, ride, hunt and organize tournaments, but were completely separated from the outside world and in need of money because their financially ruined father you could hardly send support.
Ludwig took over the management of the community for which he wrote a while militarily and spiritually dominated rule. He used his time to talk to the Friars Minor, was devoted to the study of Latin and theology. Seriously ill with tuberculosis, he decided on 1 February 1290 to dedicate his life to God and vowed that, now becomes healthy, on the following Pentecost again. He renounced the wearing of weapons and participating in the hunt. When the conditions of captivity were loosened, he could go to Barcelona, where he regularly stayed in the convent of the Friars Minor and went to college. There was contact with the spiritualist wing of the Franciscan religious order, particularly to Peter Johannis Olivi.
Thanks to the efforts of Pope Boniface VIII closed the House of Anjou and Aragon on June 7, 1295 peace. In October Louis was reunited with his family in Figueres, where preparations were made for the marriage of his sister Blanka with James II of Aragon, at the Johann in the monastery of Santa Maria de Vilabertran received the tonsure. He went against the will and without the knowledge of his father - the more cherished wedding plans with the house of Aragon and Louis wanted to marry Jolande of Aragon - in the spiritual stand
Ludwig was appointed in 1296 a member of the Franciscan order and on December 29, 1296 as Bishop of Toulouse on December 24. His younger brother Robert King by his renunciation of the throne of Naples. He already died in 1297 and was buried according to his will in the Franciscan Church of Marseille. His father drove in 1300 the opening of a canonization ahead without the support of the Franciscan Order. The trial took place in 1308 in Marseilles, but only on April 13, 1317, Ludwig was by Pope John XXII. canonized. The translation of his remains in a grave altar took 1319 his brother Robert ago, but in 1433 transferred Alfonso V of Aragon, the relics in the Cathedral of Valencia in Spain. From there, the worship of saints spread all over Europe.
St. Louis of Toulouse is the author of famous sermons and a treatise on polyphonic music (see Codex Laurentiano - Ashburn in 1051 in Florence).