May 19
Ivon (+1303)
Priest
Practical advice
Whenever you have the opportunity, exercise authority as a service and not as a privilege, doing everything for the love of God.
Biography
Priest in French Brittany. He studied theology in Paris and Orleans. He was an officer of the archdeacon of Rennes, and exercised himself in the parish ministry in Louannes where he started a hospice and an orphanage for the elderly and homeless children. At that time there was no more prestigious and at the same time more beloved lawyer in Brittany. He defended the ignorant and the poor who were at the mercy of the nobles. He is the patron saint of lawyers.
Example of
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