AUTHENTICATED RELIC RELIQUARY S.BERNARDI/STANISL/A.GONZ

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We are offering you a round multirelic of S. Bernardi, S.Aloysius Gonzaga, S. Stanislaus Kostka. Diameter 3,5cm. Aloysius Gonzaga : In November 1585, Aloysius gave up all rights of inheritance, and this was confirmed by the emperor. He went to Rome and, because of his noble birth, gained an audience with Pope Sixtus V Following a brief stay at the Palazzo Aragona Gonzaga , the Rome home of his cousin, Cardinal Scipione Gonzaga on 25 November 1585 he was accepted into the Jesuit Roman noviciate by the order's general, Claudius Acquaviva . He was asked to moderate his asceticism somewhat, as it disrupted his relationship with the other novices; they found it difficult to speak with him when he isolated himself. In part, this may also have been caused by his upbringing, where he had never learned to relate to people outside the court. His health continued to cause problems. In addition to the kidney disease, he also suffered from a skin disease, chronic headaches and insomnia . He was sent to Milan for studies, but after some time he was sent back to Rome because of his health. On November 25, 1587, he took the three religious vows of chastity , poverty and obedience. In February and March 1588, he received the lower ordinations, and started studying theology to prepare for the priesthood . In 1589, he was called to Mantua to mediate between his brother Ridolfo and the Duke of Mantua. He returned to Rome in May 1590. Later that year, he had a vision in which the Archangel Gabriel told him that he would die within a year. In 1591, a plague broke out in Rome. The Jesuits opened a hospital for the stricken, and Aloysius volunteered to work there. He was allowed to work in a ward where there were no plague victims, as they were afraid to lose him. As it turned out, a man on his ward was infected, and on March 3, 1591 (six days before his 23rd birthday) Aloysius showed the first symptoms of being infected. It seemed certain that he would die in a short time, and he was given Extreme unction . To everyone's surprise, he recovered, but his health was left worse than ever. While he was ill, he spoke several times with his confessor, cardinal Robert Bellarmine . Aloysius had another vision, and told his confessor that he would die on the Octave of the feast of Corpus Christi . On that day, which fell on June 21, he seemed very well in the morning, but insisted that he would die before the day was over. Cardinal Bellarmine gave him the sacraments , and recited the prayers for the dying. Purity was his notable virtue; he never looked even his mother's face and never looked at his queen so that he could only recognize the queen by her voice. St. Maria Magdalena de Pazzi saw him in a vision in a great glory because he had lived a particularly strong interior life.He died just before midnight on June 21, 1591. Bernard of Clairvaux , O.Cist (1090 – August 20, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order. After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val d'Absinthe , about 15 km southeast of Bar-sur-Aube . According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée , which evolved into Clairvaux. There Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary . In the year 1128, Bernard assisted at the Council of Troyes , at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar , who soon became the ideal of Christian nobility. On the death of Pope Honorius II a schism broke out in the Church. Louis VI of France convened a national council of the French bishops at Étampes , and Bernard was chosen to judge between the rivals for pope. In 1139, Bernard assisted at the Second Council of the Lateran . Bernard denounced the teachings of Peter Abelard to the Pope, who called a council at Sens in 1141 to settle the matter. Berna... read more

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