Blanche of Castile

And five, obtaining the Virgin Mary's protection.

Blanche of Castile, Queen of France, lived during the time of Saint Dominic.

She was deeply grieved because eight years after her marriage she was still childless.

St. Dominic went to visit her and he advised her to say her rosary every day asking God for the grace of motherhood.

And I think the students pretty much assumed that they would just get away with it because they had their clerical privileges.

But Blanche of Castile, who was the regent of France in this period, so she was the mother of Louis IX.

Louis IX was the king who eventually became canonized.

He became Saint Louis.

Yes, you would sooner lose everything, even your life.

Queen Blanche of Castile, who was a truly Christian mother, brought up her young son to great holiness of life, always repeating to him such words as, "Thou knowest, my dear son, that I love thee more than myself? Ah, well I do so, but I would rather see thee die here even now under my eyes than see thee commit one mortal sin." The child profited by his mother's lessons.

He was afterwards the excellent King Saint Louis, and in the midst of all the dangers of the court, and throughout all the tumult of the camp, he preserved the innocence of his baptism.

Try, my dear child, also to keep that holy innocence, that beautiful white robe which the devil would make you soil.