St. King Fernando III just before he was to marry the Princess Beatrice spend the night in prayer to become a Knight. "Kissing the cross, he prayed, ' Christ, my Lord, I am in Thy hands, the same way this sword is in mine. Show me, my King, what Thou wantest of this Thy knight.'"... ... Fernando heard the intimate voice of [Jesus Christ answer him] in his soul that was absolute in absence of all else. 'I want to make your whole life like a representation and marvellous parable so that the coming centuries may contemplate the war that I, Eternal King and Universal Lord, wage against the powers of darkness, to conquer the entire earth for my Father. Fernando, you will be the noble and considerate king who leads his vassals in this great enterprise, the courageous and mortified King who, above all others, charges ahead in the midst of danger and endures the strain of hard work and the fatigue of battle. You will be the generous and magnanimous King who in victory ...