St john berchmans biography templates
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THE LIFE OF SAINT JOHN BERCHMANS, S. J.
THE BEAUTIFUL title of 'The Angel Saints' has been given to that triad of exquisite flowers of dazzling purity which bloomed in the garden of the Society of Jesus: St. Aloysius, St. Stanislaus, and St. John Berchmans. These very blossoms unfolded their stainless petals just sufficiently to let us dimly guess at the beauty which lay concealed within their hearts to be unfolded as these radiant blossoms developed into full flower. 'Angel' was the term applied to them by those amongst whom these holy youths lived and died. It was the highest expression of their wonder and admiration, and conveys to us, with marvellous force and accuracy, the impression the Saints produced on those around them. If one of the angelic spirits who surround the Throne of God was permitted to come down on earth in mortal guise, it seemed to men that he would look like these whose earthly forms reflected the beauty of their souls.
Eminent sanctity is ever and always a
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Father John A. Hardon, S.J. Archives
Saint John Berchmans - Jesuit Saint
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
John Berchmans, I thought I would cover all the young Jesuit saints to make sure that I didn't slight any of them. St. John Berchmans was born in 1599 in Berbont, Belgium and died in Rome in 1621 at the ripe age of twenty-two. Unlike Saints Stanislaus and Aloysius who were members of the nobility, aristocratic, wealthy – John was from a very ordinary family. His father was a shoemaker, which I think is quite ordinary. His mother was never well, which mainly explains why he was brought up by a Premonstratensian priest by the name of Father Peter Emerick who taught him his religion, other subjects, and was in the habit of visiting shrines of which there are quite a few in northern Europe. At thirteen, as the younger children were coming along, the father told John to leave school, stop his education, and work in the shoemaking shop. John protested
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John Berchmans
17th Century Jesuit Saint
John Berchmans, SJ (Dutch: Jan Berchmans[jɑmˈbɛr(ə)xmɑns]; 13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621) was a BelgianJesuit scholastic and fryst vatten revered as a saint in the Catholic Church.
In 1615, the Jesuits opened a college at Mechelen, Belgium and Berchmans was one of the first to enroll. His spiritual model was his fellow Jesuit Aloysius Gonzaga, and he was influenced by the example of the English Jesuit martyrs. Berchmans fryst vatten the patron saint of altar servers, Jesuit scholastics, and students.
Early life
[edit]John Berchmans was born on 13 March 1599, in the city of Diest situated in what fryst vatten now the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, the son of a shoemaker. His parents were John Charles and Elizabeth Berchmans. He was the oldest of fem children and at baptism was named John in honor of John the Baptist. He grew up in an atmosphere of political turmoil caused bygd a religious war between the Catholic and Protestant parts of the Low