พฤหัสฯ. มิ.ย. 16, 2005 2:58 am
เจอแล้วววว!! แต่เป็นอิงลิชแต่เราจะพยายามแปลเองถึงแม้จะโง่ๆก็ตาม ห้ามใครแปลให้ก่อนเด็ดขาด!!! จะแสดงให้ดูเพื่อนักบุญของฉ๊านช้านทำด๊ายยยยยยยย สู้เพื่อนักบุญ!! แต่ใว้เดี๋ยวมาแปลพรุ่งนี้ ก็แหม๋ตี 3 แล้วอะ = =
St. John Berchman
Patron of Altar Boys
Feast day November 26
1699-1721
Belgium
......"What, however, distinguished him most from his companions was his piety. When he was hardly seven years old, he was accustomed to rise early and serve two or three Masses with the greatest fervour. He attended religious instructions and listened to Sunday sermons with the deepest recollection, and made pilgrimages to the sanctuary of Montaigu, a few miles from Diest, reciting the rosary as he went, or absorbed in meditation. As soon as he entered the Jesuit college at Mechlin, he was enrolled in the Society of the Blessed Virgin, and made a resolution to recite her Office daily. He would, moreover, ask the director of the sodality every month to prescribe for him some special acts of devotion to Mary. On Fridays, at nightfall, he would go out barefooted and make the Stations of the Cross in the town. Such fervent, filial piety won for him the grace of a religious vocation. Towards the end of his rhetoric course, he felt a distinct call to the Society of Jesus. His family was decidedly opposed to this, and on 24 September, 1616, he was received into the novitiate at Mechlin. After two years passed in Mechlin he made his simple vows, and was sent to Antwerp to begin the study of philosophy. Remaining there only a few weeks, he set out for Rome, where he was to continue the same study. After the journeying three hundred leagues on foot, carrying a wallet on his back, he arrived at the Roman College, he studied for two years and passed on to the third year class in philosophy in the year 1621. One day early in August of that same year he was selected by the prefect of studies to take part in a philosophical disputation at the Greek College, at that time under the charge of the Dominicans. He opened the discussion with great perspicuity and erudition, but, on returning to his own college, he was seized with a violent fever of which he died, on 13 August, at the age of twenty-two years and five months......."
