Blessed Isidore De Loor, known in the Passionist Congregation as Isidore of Saint Joseph, was born April 13, 1881, in the small town of Vrasene, located in the diocese of Gent-Gand, in Eastern Flanders. He was from a family of farmers, and he grew up loving his work in the fields.
At the age of twenty-six he felt the call to the religious life, and entered the novitiate of the Passionist Congregation in Ere, where he was received as a lay-brother. He professed his religious vows on September 13, 1908. Thereafter he humbly served several communities of the Congregation; to his community service was joined an especially intense life of prayer and penance, in keeping with the spirit of the Congregation.
His right eye had to be removed in 1911, because of a tumor. Among the religious of the congregation, and among the laity, he was admired for his charity and simplicity, his dedication to work and his spirit of recollection. Having suffered through several months of intense pain, he succumbed to cancer and pleurisy on October 6, 1916.
Blessed Isidore was only thirty-five years of age, and had lived as a religious for only nine years. Many referred to him as "the good Brother" and "the Brother of the Will of God." Pope Saint John Paul II, declared him Blessed on September 30, 1984.
∼Blessed Isidoor was born as Isidoor De Loor. He was a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation. Isidoor was a lay brother at te Passionist monastery Kortrijk ( Belgium) were he was employed as gardener and cook. Despite suffering with a painful cancer in his eye Isidoor was reluctant to complain. The cancer spraid throughout his body and Isidoor was given only a few years to live. During WW I many visitors came to the monastery for help, help Isidoor was willing to offer. Brother Isidoor died on the 6 th. October 1916. Brother Isidoor was declared blessed on the 30 th. September 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
At the age of twenty-six he felt the call to the religious life, and entered the novitiate of the Passionist Congregation in Ere, where he was received as a lay-brother. He professed his religious vows on September 13, 1908. Thereafter he humbly served several communities of the Congregation; to his community service was joined an especially intense life of prayer and penance, in keeping with the spirit of the Congregation.
His right eye had to be removed in 1911, because of a tumor. Among the religious of the congregation, and among the laity, he was admired for his charity and simplicity, his dedication to work and his spirit of recollection. Having suffered through several months of intense pain, he succumbed to cancer and pleurisy on October 6, 1916.
Blessed Isidore was only thirty-five years of age, and had lived as a religious for only nine years. Many referred to him as "the good Brother" and "the Brother of the Will of God." Pope Saint John Paul II, declared him Blessed on September 30, 1984.
∼Blessed Isidoor was born as Isidoor De Loor. He was a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation. Isidoor was a lay brother at te Passionist monastery Kortrijk ( Belgium) were he was employed as gardener and cook. Despite suffering with a painful cancer in his eye Isidoor was reluctant to complain. The cancer spraid throughout his body and Isidoor was given only a few years to live. During WW I many visitors came to the monastery for help, help Isidoor was willing to offer. Brother Isidoor died on the 6 th. October 1916. Brother Isidoor was declared blessed on the 30 th. September 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
Blessed Isidore De Loor, known in the Passionist Congregation as Isidore of Saint Joseph, was born April 13, 1881, in the small town of Vrasene, located in the diocese of Gent-Gand, in Eastern Flanders. He was from a family of farmers, and he grew up loving his work in the fields.
At the age of twenty-six he felt the call to the religious life, and entered the novitiate of the Passionist Congregation in Ere, where he was received as a lay-brother. He professed his religious vows on September 13, 1908. Thereafter he humbly served several communities of the Congregation; to his community service was joined an especially intense life of prayer and penance, in keeping with the spirit of the Congregation.
His right eye had to be removed in 1911, because of a tumor. Among the religious of the congregation, and among the laity, he was admired for his charity and simplicity, his dedication to work and his spirit of recollection. Having suffered through several months of intense pain, he succumbed to cancer and pleurisy on October 6, 1916.
Blessed Isidore was only thirty-five years of age, and had lived as a religious for only nine years. Many referred to him as "the good Brother" and "the Brother of the Will of God." Pope Saint John Paul II, declared him Blessed on September 30, 1984.
∼Blessed Isidoor was born as Isidoor De Loor. He was a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation. Isidoor was a lay brother at te Passionist monastery Kortrijk ( Belgium) were he was employed as gardener and cook. Despite suffering with a painful cancer in his eye Isidoor was reluctant to complain. The cancer spraid throughout his body and Isidoor was given only a few years to live. During WW I many visitors came to the monastery for help, help Isidoor was willing to offer. Brother Isidoor died on the 6 th. October 1916. Brother Isidoor was declared blessed on the 30 th. September 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
At the age of twenty-six he felt the call to the religious life, and entered the novitiate of the Passionist Congregation in Ere, where he was received as a lay-brother. He professed his religious vows on September 13, 1908. Thereafter he humbly served several communities of the Congregation; to his community service was joined an especially intense life of prayer and penance, in keeping with the spirit of the Congregation.
His right eye had to be removed in 1911, because of a tumor. Among the religious of the congregation, and among the laity, he was admired for his charity and simplicity, his dedication to work and his spirit of recollection. Having suffered through several months of intense pain, he succumbed to cancer and pleurisy on October 6, 1916.
Blessed Isidore was only thirty-five years of age, and had lived as a religious for only nine years. Many referred to him as "the good Brother" and "the Brother of the Will of God." Pope Saint John Paul II, declared him Blessed on September 30, 1984.
∼Blessed Isidoor was born as Isidoor De Loor. He was a lay brother of the Passionist Congregation. Isidoor was a lay brother at te Passionist monastery Kortrijk ( Belgium) were he was employed as gardener and cook. Despite suffering with a painful cancer in his eye Isidoor was reluctant to complain. The cancer spraid throughout his body and Isidoor was given only a few years to live. During WW I many visitors came to the monastery for help, help Isidoor was willing to offer. Brother Isidoor died on the 6 th. October 1916. Brother Isidoor was declared blessed on the 30 th. September 1984 by Pope John Paul II.
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