Br. Jaime is a friar from the Province of Spain....a simple Capuchin...very learned and yet humble....he is a theologian.....when he speaks it looks like honey drops from the rocks....he is a sweet nature friar with a lots of qualities.....Jaime is very popular among the friars in the Order....he is assistant to the International formation council with Charles Alphonse....both work together.....right now he is busy working on the 3rd Chapter of Ration Formationis......In Curia Jaime is liked and wanted by all....every ready to help friars....he is ready to drive you to the station, airport or anywhere else.....he is a good preacher too.....This morning he preached about: the God of the Temple and the God of the Tent.....great thought....God bless you Jaime.....
THE SMALL town of Montbrandon, in the Marca of Ancona, the ancient Picenum, a province of the ecclesiastical state in Italy, gave birth to this saint. His parents, though of low condition, were very virtuous, and educated him in sentiments of true piety and religion.
He began his spiritual war against the devil, the world, and the flesh, with assiduous prayer, and extraordinary fasts and watchings: and the fervour of his first beginnings was, by his fidelity in corresponding with divine grace, crowned with such constancy and perseverance as never to suffer any abatement. After the year of his probation was completed he returned to the Portiuncula, and by his solemn vows offered himself a holocaust to God. For forty years he never passed a day without taking the discipline; he always wore either a rough hair shirt, or an iron coat of mail armed with short sharp spikes; allowing himself only three hours for sleep he spent the rest of the night in holy meditation and prayer: flesh meat he never touched, and he ate so little that it seemed a miracle how he could live.
His zeal for the salvation of souls seemed to have no bounds, and for forty years together he never passed a single day without preaching the word of God either to the people or to the religious of his own Order. His exhortations were vehement and efficacious; by one sermon at Milan he converted thirty-six lewd women to a most fervent course of penance.
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