P.BERNARD BOYL

Of the order of the Least ones, founded by St. Francis of Paola, they made part you illustrate characters.

Among them, we quote:

P. Bernard Boyl, of origin tarraconese, was the first apostle of the new world. The Royal of Spain, Ferdinando of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, on the occasion of the second trip of Cristoforo Colombo they thought to the evangelizzazione of the new world both for motives for faith whether to tie the future colonies to Spain. It was select as it drives Bernard Boyl, already adviser and secretary of the King of Spain and hermit of the order of the Least ones. P. Boyl was friend of infancy of the Spanish monarch; become then famous humanist, you/they were submitted him by the king important and delicate diplomatic missions. In 1479, you/he/she was for example sent by the sovereign as regal Commissioner of the armed consignment against the rebellious marquis of Oristano in Sardinia, with the fleet commanded by the admiral Vilamari. Although to the apex of the personal success, in the following year, in 1480 it abandoned all to retire himself/herself/themselves to life eremitica in the romitorio of the SS. Trinità in the mountain of the Montserrat. Priest was orderly in 1481, therefore Superior of the hermits of Montserrat. Also from hermit the sovereign of Spain resorted to him to resolve a political controversy with the King of France, Charles VIII, with the intent to recover to the Spanish crown, the Counties of Rossillon and Cerdagna. And it was really in this occasion that had the opportunity of knowing Francis of Paola. It was to Tours in 1486 and he/she certainly met Francis that, besides you/he/she was already interested some thorny matter making to promise to the king Luigi XII in the will the ricomposizione of that story. Struck from the holiness and from the austerity of the saint Calabrian hermit, Bernard Boyl taken the decision to enter the order of the Monks Least Hermits founded, note, from Francis of Paola. Reentered in Spain, the necessary time remained you to systematize its things and returned to Tours. St. Francis had the opportunity of knowing of it and to appreciate its qualities and General Vicar named him/it for Spain and sent him/it in that earth to found you of the convents of his/her Order, in the second halves 1492. Thanks to the support and he that it had from the Royal of Spain, the convents of S. Cipriano rose to Barcellona and S.Maria of the Victoria to Malaga. Entrusted by the same Pope Alexander Vi, that had been solicited in turn by the Royal of Spain, Boyl departed for the new earths to the succession of Cristoforo Colombo. Well soon him manefestò an open conflict among the missionary idea and civilizzatrice and the material affairs that the European expansion had stimulated overseas and to do its expenses they were the native submitted to inexpressible bad lucks. The relationships between Christopher Columbus and Boyl wore out him to the point that Boyl left the Mission with a letter of January 30 th 1494, sent to the King, through Anthony de Torres with which he/she explained his/her difficulty to the sovereign to come in contact with the native. The king refused the proposal, but he effected equally his/her decision landing to Cadice December 3 rd 1494. From Tours here it departed, on charge of St. Francis, for Rome near the pope Alexander Vi to intercede for the order of the Least ones. On the occasion of one his/her according to trip in Rome, always in diplomatic mission, the pope Alexander Vi sent him/it near the king of Spain to try to implore a war. For obedience to the King of Spain it accepted to sadly happen to the famous Caesar Borgia in the position of Abbot Commendatario of the Abazia of S. Michele of Cuxà, in the Rossiglione and here he/she remained up to 1507 year when it stopped living S. Francesco of Paola...