2023-11-15 02:00:00
“Alberto, instead of running away from school, why don’t you pray to me who am ‘House of Wisdom’? If you have faith and trust in me, I will give you a prodigious memory,” the Mother of God told him. And so that you know that it was I who granted it to you, when you are going to die, you will forget everything you knew,” concluded the Virgin.
“Between science and faith there is friendship” (Benedict XVI)
For the saint, the sudden loss of memory in that class was a sign from God announcing what was to come. Two years later, in 1280, Saint Albert died peacefully, without serious illness or extraordinary episode. That period meant a beautiful epilogue of prayer and very close contact with the Virgin; a serene preparation to see God face to face.
“Saint Albert the Great,” said Pope Benedict XVI in 2010, “reminds us that between science and faith there is friendship, and that men of science can travel, through their vocation to the study of nature, an authentic and fascinating path of holiness.”
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