Caput 11
The Canonization and Divine Goodness
The chapter opens by recounting the canonization of King Ladislaus in 1192, affirming that the Creator made nature subject to His mercy through the saint's power.
So when the Author of all creation had made clear, by so many miracles, that this holy king shared in divine power, his holy body was gloriously canonized in the year of our Lord 1192. Indeed, the Father of nature so made nature subject to his goodness that nothing seemed denied to it which divine mercy indicated should be granted.1
Miracles of Healing at the Tomb
A series of healings—blind receive sight, the lame, mute, deaf, and paralyzed are cured—and a celestial sign at the canonization hour demonstrate the saint's intercessory power.
For many who were blind came to the tomb of Saint Ladislaus, and after they called on his help, they were wonderfully given their sight. The lame, the mute, the deaf, and the paralyzed—who had been worn down for a long time by all kinds of illnesses—were freed from their infirmities by calling on his name. At the very hour of his canonization, a boy who lacked hands and feet received his health.2 At the same hour a star of unusual brilliance stood high above, directly over the monastery where his holy body had been laid, and for nearly two hours it shone with a clear, glowing light.
A Leper's Cleansing and Final Praise
A leper is cleansed on his way to the feast, and the chapter closes with a doxology affirming that healings continue through the invocation of Ladislaus's name.
In the same way, a leper on his way to the feast was cleansed by the fruit of the king's merits, and he offered praise and thanksgiving to his healer, the holy king. Even today, many people are still freed from their illnesses by invoking the name of the holy king Ladislaus, through the help of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom belong honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Read the original Latin
Dum igitur auctor uniuerse creature hunc sanctum regem diuine uirtutis consortem esse, tantis miraculis declarasset, anno domini millesimo centesimo nonagesimo secundo, sanctum corpus eius gloriose est canonizatum. nimirum nature genitor sic naturam sue bonitati fecit obnoxiam, ut uideretur nichil ei derogatum, quod diuina pietas indicaret annuendum.
plures enim ceci ad sepulchrum sancti Ladislai uenientes, implorato eius auxilio mirabiliter sunt illuminati. claudi quoque et muti surdique et paralitici uariis languoribus diuturno tempore attriti, per inuocacionem nominis eius a suis sunt infirmitatibus liberati. in ipsa canonizacionis sue hora, quidam puer qui loco manuum et pedum carebat, suscepit sanitatem. in eadem hora sydus peculiaris fulgoris stetit supra in directo monasterii, ubi sanctum corpus ipsius positum erat, et per spacium duarum fere horarum perspicue rutilauit.
item leprosus quidam ad solempnitatem eius ueniens, prouentu meritorum eius in uia mundatus est, curatori suo regi sancto laudes et graciarum intulit actiones. diuersi eciam per inuocacionem nominis sancti regis Ladislai usque hodie liberantur a suis infirmitatibus, prestante domino nostro Iesu Christo, cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.
Notes
- 1 ↩pietas rendered as 'mercy' (divine loving-kindness); genitor nature as 'Father of nature' for the Creator; ei taken as nature, the nearer feminine antecedent made subject (obnoxiam).
- 2 ↩loco manuum et pedum carebat rendered as congenital or total lack of hands and feet; it could also be taken more loosely as loss of their use.
Legenda Sancti Ladislai regis (Life of Saint Ladislaus of Hungary) companion
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