Saint Louis Bertrand's Life And Accomplishments

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Saint Louis Bertrand was born on January 1, 1526 in Valencia, Spain to a religious family. Louis was always religious, as a young boy he would go to different churches in order to gain knowledge of what all the priest said, he also knew he wanted to be a priest from a young age. He became a Dominican priest at the age of 18 and his first thought was he was going to do a bad job preaching but he was wrong, people enjoyed him. In 1557 when the plague broke out he devoted himself to serving the poor and ill. At the age of 36, Louis Bertrand went to South America and baptized thousands of people and although he only knew Spanish, God had given him the gift of tongues so when he spoke all understood him. One day a tribe even tried to poison him