St. Gerard Majella

St. Gerard Majella The Wonder-Worker and Patron of Expectant Mothers
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Author: Format: ISBN: H x W: Manufacturer: Date: Pages:	Fr. Edward Saint-Omer, C.SS.R. Soft Cover 0-89555-630-8 7" (17.7 cm) x 4 1/4" (10.7 cm) TAN Books and Publishers 1999 258

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St. Gerard Majella, the Wonder-Worker and "Patron of Expectant Mothers," is a major, major Saint of the Catholic Church. Though he died of tuberculosis at only 29 and though he was only a lay brother, he achieved great sanctity, such that his religious superiors attested that he had not only not committed any mortal sins, but that they could not detect that he had ever been guilty of any sin at all!

A tailor by profession before he entered the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer - the Redemptorists - at age 26, St. Gerard became famous for his miracles, cures, charities, ecstasies, mortifications, prayers, purity, obedience, zeal for souls, discernment of spirits, penetration of hearts, infused knowledge, prophecies, knowledge of distant events, biloca-tions, and power over nature and over human hearts-and even over the devil. This book also describes his death, funeral, miracles after his death, and his beatification and canon-ization, plus, the widespread devotion to him that soon sprang up everywhere.

The reader will search far and wide to find another Saint's life as inspiring as that of St. Gerard Majella! For God has surely manifested His approval of this His servant and his wonderful sanctity by allowing this sanctity to be manifested to the world by so many and such great miracles.

Here is a book that the whole family will enjoy!

Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 10/16
Tridentine Calendar - 10/16

Patron Of: Expectant Mothers, Falsely Accused, Mothers, Unborn

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Son of a tailor who died when the boy was 12, leaving the family in poverty. Gerard tried to join the Capuchins, but his health prevented it He was accepted as a Redemptorist lay brother serving his congregation as sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian, and tailor. Wonder worker.

When falsely accused by a pregnant woman of being the father of her child, he retreated to silence; she later recanted and cleared him, and thus began his association as patron of all aspects of pregnancy. Reputed to bilocate and read consciences. His last will consisted of the following small note on the door of his cell: "Here the will of God is done, as God wills, and as long as God wills."

Born
23 April 1725 at Muro, Italy

Died
16 October 1775 at Caposele, Italy of tuberculosis

All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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