The Saints Show Us Christ - Daily Readings on the Spiritual Life

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The popular spiritual writer Fr. Rawley Myers presents daily readings on the spiritual life according to the saints. Combining both the thoughts and writings of the saints along with interesting biographical facts and events in the saints' lives, Fr. Myers allows the saints to instruct us on how to be like Christ.

As Christ's closest friends, the saints knew Him best. They have the wisdom of Heaven, and are our tried and true guides to Heaven, for the saints take us to the feet of Christ. The saints in this book not only inform us about Christ, but they introduce us to Christ, whom they loved so much. To know Jesus is the heart of our faith. No one knew Him better than the saints.

"Rawley Myers has provided us with a way to encounter a saint every day. In a couple of paragraphs or in twenty-five lines, we meet Augustine or John of the Cross, Gertrude or Vincent de Paul. Saints clarify and instruct. Father Myers gives us something ultimate to think about each day as it is reflected in the life of a Dominic or a Catherine Laboure."
- Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University

Fr. Rawley Myers, a regular contributor to several national Catholic publications, has taught in Catholic high schools and colleges. He is the author of sixteen books including Daily Readings in Catholic Classics.

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St. Catherine Laboure

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 11/28 Tridentine Calendar - 12/31 Patron Of: Miraculous Medal Profile     Ninth of eleven children born to a farm family, and from an early age felt a call to the religious life. Never learned to read or write. Forced to take over running the house at age eight after her mother died and her older sister joined the Sisters of Charity. Worked as a waitress in her uncle's cafe in Paris. Upon entering a hospital run by the Sisters of Charity she received a vision in which Saint Vincent de Paul told her that God wanted her to work with the sick, and she later joined the order, taking the name Catherine.     On 18 July 1830 she had a vision of Our Lady who described to her a medal which she wished struck. On one side it has the image of Our Lady, and the words, "O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee"; on the other are the hearts of Jesus and Mary. Our Lady told Catherine that wearers of the medal would receive great graces, it has become known as the Miraculous Medal, and its wearing and devotion has spread worldwide. Miracles reported at her tomb. Born     2 May 1806 at Fain-les-Moûtiers, Côte d'Or, Burgundy, France as Zoe Laboure Died     31 December 1876 at Enghien-Reuilly, France; body incorrupt; entombed in her convent chapel Beatified     1933 by Pope Pius XI Canonized     27 July 1947 by Pope Pius XII All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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