Ingcwele yeLouis yaseToulouse, eNgcwele yowe-18 Agasti
(Nge-9 kaFebruwari 1274-19 Agasti 1297)
Imbali yeSt. Louis yaseToulouse
Xa wasweleka eneminyaka engama-23, uLuigi wayesele engumFranciscan, ubhishophu nengcwele!
Abazali bakaLuigi yayinguCharles II waseNaples noSicily noMaria, intombi kaKumkani waseHungary. U-Luigi wayehlobene no-St. Louis IX kwicala likayise no-Elizabeth wase-Hungary kwicala likanina.
U-Louis wabonakalisa imiqondiso yokuqala yokunamathela emthandazweni kunye nemisebenzi yobubele yeinceba. Njengomntwana wayethatha ukutya kwigorha ukondla amahlwempu. Xa wayeneminyaka eli-14 ubudala, uLouis kunye nabantakwabo babini bathatyathwa yinkosi yenkundla yaseAragon njengenxalenye yezopolitiko ezazibandakanya utata kaLouis. Kwinkundla, uLudovico wayefundiswe ngamanqindi kaFrancisan owayesenza inkqubela phambili kwizifundo nakubomi bokomoya. Njengo-St. Francis wahlakulela uthando olukhethekileyo kubantu abaneqhenqa.
Ngelixa wayethinjiwe, uLouis wagqiba kwelokuba anikezele ngesiqu sakhe sobukumkani kwaye abe ngumfundisi. Xa wayeneminyaka engama-20, wavunyelwa ukuba ashiye inkundla yokumkani waseAragon. Wayeka isihloko ngenxa yomntakwabo uRobert waza wamiselwa njengomfundisi kunyaka olandelayo. Kungekudala emva koko wamiselwa njengobhishophu waseToulouse, kodwa upopu wasamkela isicelo sikaLouis sokuba abe ngumFranciscan kuqala.
Umoya waseFranciscan wagcwala eLouis. “UYesu Krestu kubo bonke ubutyebi bam; nguye yedwa ondoneleyo, ”uLouis ebemana ephinda-phinda. Nanjengobhishophu wayenxiba umkhwa waseFranciscan kwaye ngamanye amaxesha wayengqiba. Uyalele i-friar ukuba imnike ukulungiswa-esidlangalaleni ukuba kufanelekile-kwaye i-friar yenza umsebenzi wayo.
Inkonzo kaLouis kwidayosisi yaseToulouse yasikelelwa kakhulu. Akukho xesha wayethathwa njengengcwele. U-Louis wabekela ecaleni iipesenti ezingama-75 zomvuzo wakhe njengobhishophu ukondla abantu abahluphekayo kunye nokugcina iicawa. Yonke imihla wayesondla abantu abangama-25 abangamahlwempu etafileni yakhe.
U-Luisis wavuselelwa ngo-1317 nguPopu John XXII, omnye wabafundisi bakhe bangaphambili. Umthendeleko wakhe wezoLimo ngomhla we-19 ka-Agasti.
Ukucingisisa
Xa u-Cardinal Hugolino, uPopu Gregory IX wexesha elizayo, wacebisa uFrancis ukuba ezinye zee-friars ziya kuba ngoobhishophu abagqwesileyo, uFrancis wakhuza ngelithi bangaphulukana nokuthobeka kwabo nokuba lula kwabo xa betyunjelwe kwezo zikhundla. Ezi mfanelo zimbini ziyafuneka kuyo yonke indawo kwiCawe kwaye uLouis usibonisa ukuba bangaphila njani ngoobhishophu.