The Saint Luis Beltrán Prayer is a well-known prayer among both Catholics and adherents of other spiritual traditions, including esoteric ones. Its invocations are very powerful at curing ailments, diseases, witchcraft, spells, curses, and, most importantly, the evil eye and other harm brought on by jealousy, which accounts for its popularity.
Saint Luis Beltran Prayer In English
Saint Luis Beltran Prayer In English
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Dear Saint Luis Beltran, please intercede for us and help us to deepen our relationship with God. Guide us in our daily lives and lead us closer to Him. Amen.
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Holy Saint Luis Beltran, pray for us that we may have the strength to overcome temptations and stay true to our faith. Help us to resist evil and follow the path of righteousness. Amen.
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Lord, through the intercession of Saint Luis Beltran, grant us the grace to forgive those who have wronged us and to seek reconciliation. Help us to be instruments of your peace in the world. Amen.
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Saint Luis Beltran, pray for us that we may have a greater love for the poor and the marginalized. Help us to see Christ in those who are in need and to serve them with compassion and humility. Amen.
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Heavenly Father, we pray through the intercession of Saint Luis Beltran, that you may grant us the courage to speak out against injustice and to work for a more just and equitable society. Give us the strength to be advocates for the oppressed and the marginalized. Amen.
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Saint Luis Beltran, help us to grow in holiness and to strive for sainthood in our own lives. Inspire us to live lives of virtue and to imitate your example of faithfulness and devotion. Amen.
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Lord Jesus, we pray through the intercession of Saint Luis Beltran, that you may grant us the grace to live lives of humility and selflessness. Help us to put others before ourselves and to serve you in all that we do. Amen.
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Dear Saint Luis Beltran, pray for us that we may have a deeper understanding of the mysteries of the faith and the teachings of the Church. Help us to grow in knowledge and wisdom so that we may be better able to share the Good News with others. Amen.
As we turn to Saint Luis Beltran in prayer, let us remember the words of James 5:16, “The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
Juan Bertrand and Juana Angela Exarch welcomed Bertrand into the world in Valencia. He was related to Dominican Order thaumaturge St. Vincent Ferrer through his father. Early on, he had the desire to become a Dominican friar, and on August 26, 1539, at the Convent of St. Dominic in Valencia, he was given the habit despite his father’s best efforts to discourage him. After the customary probationary time, he made the evangelical vows. [2] Despite his severe demeanour and seeming lack of humour, he had a kind and lovely nature that made him very popular with everyone he encountered. Despite the fact that he lacked exceptional intellectual gifts, he studied diligently anyway. St. Thomas of Villanova, the archbishop of Valencia, gave him his priestly ordination in 1547. [2] He was appointed to the position of master of novices in the Valencia convent, a role he performed intermittently for a total of thirty years. [2]
He dedicated himself to the sick and dying when the plague struck Valencia in 1557. He also prepared the deceased for burial and personally laid them to rest. [3] The holy novice master was zealous in his desire to expand the scope of his already extensive ministry into the apostolate of preaching after the plague had receded. Despite claims that “his voice was boisterous, his memory untrustworthy, and his carriage without grace,” he eventually turned into a zealous preacher. [4] The cathedral and the largest churches were made available to him, but they were totally unable to hold the large crowd that wished to hear him. Consequently, he had little choice but to turn to the city’s open spaces. St. Teresa sought his advice at this time regarding reforming her order, most likely due to the fame of his preaching, which had brought him to her attention.
Bertrand had long harboured ambitions to travel to the New World to carry out missions. After obtaining permission, he set out for America in 1562 and landed in Cartagena, where he promptly began his missionary career. [5] South American missionary activity [edit]
The bull of canonization claims that while preaching in his native Spanish, he was endowed with the gift of miracles and was understood in many tongues.
[3] He advocated the rights of the indigenous people against the Spanish conquerors with Bartolomé de las Casas’ support.
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Bertrand was dispatched from Cartagena, the location of his first labours, to Panama, where, in a relatively short period of time, he converted some 6,000 individuals. His next assignment was in Tubará, a coastal town lying halfway between Cartagena and the Magdalena River. The entries in the baptismal registers, which are in Bertrand’s own handwriting and demonstrate that all the locals were admitted into the church, bear evidence of the success of his work at this location. Turon estimates that there are 10,000 converts in Tubará.
Bertrand travelled to Cipacoa and Paluato from Tubará. His achievement at the former location—whose precise location is unknown—was almost on par with that at Tubará. His earnest efforts at Paluato yielded somewhat discouraging results. Bertrand fled from this barren land to the province of Santa Marta, where his earlier accomplishments were replicated and 15,000 souls were produced. A tribe of 1,500 indigenous people from Paluato came to him while he was working at Santa Marta to receive baptism, something they had previously rejected. After finishing his work in Santa Marta, the tenacious missionary set out to convert the warlike Caribs, who were likely residents of the Leeward Islands. It doesn’t appear that his efforts to influence the tribesmen were very successful.
Nonetheless, Bertrand once again took advantage of the situation to highlight the security that surrounded his ministry. He received a lethal draught from one of the native priests, according to folklore. The poison’s intended result was defeated by divine intervention.
The Canary Islands’ Tenerife was the next location of Bertrand’s apostolic work. Regrettably, there are no documents left to show what his preaching there accomplished. We are vaguely informed that many were converted to the faith at Mompax, 37 leagues southeast of Cartagena. Bertrand also travelled to a number of the West Indies islands, particularly St. Vincent and St. Thomas.
After serving as a missionary in South America for seven years, Bertrand returned to Spain in 1569 to advocate for the abused Indians, but he was denied permission to work among them.
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He advocated for the native peoples he had encountered while also serving in his home diocese of Valencia. He did this by using his own developing reputation for sanctity, as well as contacts from family and other sources. He also started serving as a spiritual advisor to many people there, including St. Teresa of Vila.
In 1580, Bertrand became ill and had to be removed from the cathedral pulpit in Valencia. He passed away on October 9, 1581, as he allegedly predicted. [7]
The “Apostle of South America” is another name for Louis Bertrand.