Elzéar of Sabran
Saint Elzéar of Sabran, Baron of
Ansouis , Count of Ariano, was born in the castle of Saint-Jean-de-Robians, inProvence , southernFrance , in 1285; he died inParis on September 27, 1323. After a thorough training in piety and the sciences under his uncle, Abbot William of Sabran, of the Abbey of St. Victor atMarseilles , he acceded to the wish of kingCharles II of Naples and married the virtuousBlessed Delphina of the house ofGlandèves . He respected her desire to live in virginity and joined theThird Order of St. Francis , vying with her in the practice ofprayer ,mortification and charity towards the unfortunate. At the age of twenty he moved from Ansouis toPuy-Michel for greater solitude, and formulated for his servants rules of conduct that made his household a model of Christian virtue. Upon the death of his father in 1309, he went to his new domains inItaly and, after subduing by kindness his subjects who had despised the French, he was able to march toRome at the head of an army and aid in expelling theEmperor Henry VII . Returning to Provence, he took a vow ofcelibacy with his spouse, and in 1317 went back toNaples to become thetutor of Duke Charles and later his prime minister when Charles becameregent . In 1323 he was sent as ambassador to France to obtainMarie of Valois in marriage for Charles, edifying a worldly court by hisheroic virtue s. He was buried in the Franciscan habit in the church of theMinor Conventuals at Apt. The decree of hiscanonization was signed by his godsonPope Urban V and published by PopeGregory XI . His liturgical feast, which he now shares with his wife, is observed by the various Franciscan orders on September 26th.ource
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