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Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth.

Ramon Llull

Ramon, while still a young man and Seneschal to the King of Majorca, was very given to composing worthless songs and poems and to doing other licentious things. One night he was sitting beside his bed, about to compose and write in his vulgar tongue a song to a lady whom he loved with a foolish love; and as he began to write this song, he looked to his right and saw our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross, as if suspended in mid-air

Ramon Llull

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull

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Born: 1232

Died: 1316 (aged 84)

Bio: Ramon Llull, T.O.S.F. was a philosopher, logician, Franciscan tertiary and Majorcan writer. He is credited with writing the first major work of Catalan literature.

Known for:

Blanquerna
The book of the lover and the beloved
The order of chivalry
Doctor Illuminatus: A Ramon Llull Reader
Romancing God

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