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How Saint Louis de Montfort Miraculously Brawled with a Whole Tavern of Drunk Sinners

How Saint Louis de Montfort Miraculously Brawled with a Whole Tavern of Drunk Sinners.

Once Louis de Montfort came to Roussay, France to preach a mission to the people in that town. By that time the future saint, while only 40 years old was already very sick and weak and had the appearance of an man much older and broken down due to his exhaustive years of preaching non-stop to the people about Jesus and Mary. The Saint tiredly mounted the pulpit in the Parish Church, and after a brief prayer, began to speak. This tiny town in the west of France consisted of several dilapidated buildings, most prominent of which was this church with a rowdy bar right next door. As the preacher raised his voice, the drunkards could hear the sermon, and the parishioners could hear the raucous noise coming from the bar.

Knowing this, the sinners of the bar did all in their power to disturb the sermon by screaming insults at the congregation and mocking them for their cleaner habits.
The tired old Priest very calmly finished the sermon, gave the people his blessing and meekly exited the church. As he left, though empty handed and alone and very sick, he walked directly into the bar that so wickedly tried to disturb God's Word from being heard. An eyewitness describes what happened next:

“Father said nothing, except with his fists. For the first time since he came to Roussay, men had a chance to see how big, and to feel how hard, those fists were. He struck them down and let them lie. He overturned tables and chairs. He smashed glasses. He walked over the bodies of stunned and sobered hoodlums, and went slowly back up the street.”

Again, while Louis de Montfort was only forty years old at the time of the incident, and due to a life of sacrifice and penance, and his many labor's, his body resembled that of an very old and sickly broken down Priest. But still, this “sick old priest” had developed a well-deserved reputation as a fiery preacher filled with zeal for souls. And while very Ill he was filled with righteous anger at the acts of those sinners in that bar and left more than a few of it's patrons unconscious and bleeding on the floor. What happened soon spread over the town, many considered it a miraculous and impossible feat for any one man much less someone in the future saints state condition could do. If not for the witnesses this act may have gone down as just another fairy tale from the Bible believers, but to many from both the good and bad citizenry had verified the truth to this.

The following day during another of his sermons at Roussay, a drunk man, angered by what the Holy Saint did, burst into the church and stood in the aisle screaming insults at him. Saint Louis calmly left the pulpit and approached the man. Many in the Congregation excitedly waited for the man of God to react as he had the day before, giving the man a beating he would not soon forget. To their great amazement, Father de Montfort knelt before the man and begged pardon for anything he had done to offend him.

The man was stunned and nearly collapsed before running out of the church in sadness crying. Saint Louis calmly returned to the pulpit and finished his sermon as though nothing had happened.

How Saint Louis de Montfort Miraculously Brawled with a Whole Tavern of Drunk Sinners

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