| ST. IVES (ALSO YVES) |
| A. A. Macerlean
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| Born at
Kermartin, near Tréguier, Brittany, 17 October, 1253; died at Louannec, 19 May
1303, was the son of Helori, Lord of Kermartin, and Azo du Kenquis. In 1267 Ives
was sent to the University of Paris, where he graduated in civil law. He went to
Orleans in 1277 to study canon law. On his return to Brittany having received
minor orders he was appointed "official", or ecclesiastical judge, of
the archdeanery of Rennes (1280); meanwhile he studied Scripture, and there are
strong reasons for holding that he joined the Franciscan Tertiaries sometime
later at Guingamp. He was soon invited by the Bishop of Treguier to become his
"official", and accepted the offer (1284). He displayed great zeal and
rectitude in the discharge of his duty and did not hesitate to resist the unjust
taxation of the king, which he considered an encroachment on the rights of the
Church; by his charity he gained the title of advocate and patron of the poor.
Having been ordained he was appointed to the parish of Tredez in 1285 and eight
years later to Louannec, where he died. He was buried in Treguier, and was
canonized in 1347 by Clement VI, his feast being kept on 19 May. He is the
patron of lawers, though not, it is said, their model, for—"Sanctus Ivo
erat Brito, Advocatus et non latro, Res miranda populo".
Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas |
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