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The life of St. Erlembald gives us the opportunity to distinguish two types of saints in the Church. One is type of saint that approaches the line of our counter-revolutionary vocation; another is the line of normal saints who can more easily be distorted by sentimental piety.

This school of sentimental piety abhors the counter-revolutionary saints or any saint who shines as a warrior for the cause of Christ. It always tries to present them from its own syrup-soaked perspective. In the case of St. Erlembald, for example, I imagine this sentimental mentality would like to describe him as follows:

“Erlembald, the son the Duke of Milan, had a horror of bloodshed from his early childhood. Whenever he saw it or even came upon an injured animal, he would run to his mother’s lap and sigh, ‘Mama, how much sorrow there is in this life.’

"His mother would lead him to a statue nearby to pray and the boy would remain there weeping for a long while. Finally, his tears would stop as he consoled himself with the idea that all suffering will end in Heaven.

“The holy youth was extremely delicate and sickly, with an open sore on his forehead that emitted a bad odor. He grew to have such a horror of earthly things that he resolved to leave everything to dedicate himself to the service of the poor. He was known for his great charity, often washing the feet of the poor and caring for sick animals. He was also celebrated for his peace-making efforts, stepping in to reconcile quarreling parties; for this reason, he was called Erlembald the Peaceful. He died at a very old age with a serene smile on his face and became known as ‘the smiling saint.’”

St. Erlembald - August 3

Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

Original Article: https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD...

The Saint of the Day features highlights from the lives of saints based on comments made by the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Following the example of St. John Bosco who used to make similar talks for the boys of his College, each evening it was Prof. Plinio’s custom to make a short commentary on the lives of the next day’s saint in a meeting for youth in order to encourage them in the practice of virtue and love for the Catholic Church. TIA thought that its readers could profit from these valuable commentaries.

The texts of both the biographical data and the comments come from personal notes taken by Atila S. Guimarães from 1964 to 1995. Given the fact that the source is a personal notebook, it is possible that at times the biographic notes transcribed here will not rigorously follow the original text read by Prof. Plinio. The commentaries have also been adapted and translated for TIA’s site.

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