St. Gerard Rosary Chaplet
Item Number: 7137
This chaplet of St. Gerard has 3 sets of 3 brown beads each, a St. Gerard medal and a crucifix. It comes with instructions and a prayer card.
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Feast Day:
Roman Rite Calendar - 10/16
Tridentine Calendar - 10/16
Patron Of:
Expectant Mothers, Falsely Accused, Mothers, Unborn
Profile 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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