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These are, there's eight books that Sheen wrote with various themes.

He was taught at the Catholic, when he went to Louvain University, one of his professors, Cardinal Mercier said, I want you to rip up your notes every year.

Try to always give a fresh lesson.

Don't try to repeat yourself.

That's important because this is one of those fast-growing centers for Thomistic studies under the Jesuits.

And finished up, in fact, in Flanders at the University of Louvain, where he was ordained and became a great preacher.

It's worth noting that Robert proved to be one of the great preachers of his era.

Now, we're talking about, again, with John of Avila and Francis Borgia and Ignatius Loyola.

These are, there's eight books that Sheen wrote with various themes.

He was taught at the Catholic, when he went to Louvain University, one of his professors, Cardinal Mercier said, I want you to rip up your notes every year.

Try to always give a fresh lesson.

Don't try to repeat yourself.

Today, we rely, we rely merely on what we people say, "Oh, I'm conversing with the Holy Spirit." He trusted God, but he worked hard.

Now, when he was at the University of Louvain in Be- in Belgium, this is what the most prestigious theological center in the entire world, his doctoral dissertation won the highest honors of the Cardinal Mercier Prize.

Now, that's something that doesn't... been done in hundreds of years.

So you're talking, you know, whoa.

They had no university.

Paris remained, even after the designing policy of the Burgundian dukes had founded the University of Louvain in fourteen twenty-five, the center of doctrine and science for the northern Netherlands.

From the point of view of the wealthy towns of Flanders and Brabant, now the heart of Burgundian possessions, Holland and Zeeland formed a wretched little country of boatmen and peasants.

Chivalry, which the dukes of Burgundy attempted to invest with new splendor, had but moderately thrived among the nobles of Holland.

He still felt shut out from Paris, Cologne, and England by the danger of the plague.

In the late summer of 1502, he went to Louvain, flung thither by the plague, he says.

The University of Louvain, established in 1425 to wean the Netherlands in spiritual matters from Paris, was, at the beginning of the 16th century, one of the strongholds of theological tradition, which, however, did not prevent the progress of classical studies.

How else should Adrian of Utrecht, later Pope but at that time Dean of St. Peter's and Professor of Theology, have forthwith undertaken to get him a professorship? Erasmus declined the offer, however, for certain reasons, he says.

Sheen tore it up.

Later on would be ordained and would later on go to the University of Louvain, where he not only got a doctorate, he got the...

Well, he was the first American to ever achieve what's called, like, a super doctorate.

It was above it, and won an award for his-