Apparition of Our Lady at Knock
Saints
Our Lady of Lourdes (11 Feb)
Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (13 Nov)
St. Frances Cabrini was born on 15 July 1850 in Italy. She founded an order (The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) with the intention of evangelizing China. When she sought the permission of Pope Leo XIII, however, he told her she would go “not to the East, but to the West.” Her first stop was New York, where she and her sisters ministered to the Italian immigrants who had little support for their faith in the predominantly Protestant United States.
By the end of her life, her missionary work had taken her to establish sixty-seven institutions throughout the United States, Central America, and South America. Today, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is established in seventeen countries on six continents. Mother Cabrini died in 1917. She was canonized in 1946 and named the Patroness of Immigrants in 1950.
You can learn more about St. Frances Cabrini here.
St. Jude (28 Oct)
St. Jude, also known as Judas Thaddeus, was one of the Twelve Apostles. St. Jude is frequently depicted with a flame above his head, as he was present at Pentecost. He is also depicted with a club or rod (a symbol of his martyrdom) and a medallion-like image of Jesus.
Legend has it that in the early days of Christianity, few people would pray for St. Jude’s intercession, for fear that they might be thought to be praying to Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Jesus. For this reason, St. Jude became a popular saint to beseech for intercession for hopeless and impossible cases (as it was assumed he was not already being asked for intercessory prayer by many of the faithful). Naturally, this has made St. Jude one of the most popular saints and, it is to be assumed, one of heaven’s busiest intercessors.
Feast of the Archangels (29 Sept)
Mary, Undoer of Knots (28 Sept)
Learn how to pray the novena here.
Padre Pio (23 Sep)
Apparition of Our Lady at Knock
The Assumption of Mary
Happy Birthday Mother Cabrini
St. Frances Cabrini was born on 15 July 1850 in Italy. She founded an order (The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) with the intention of evangelizing China. When she sought the permission of Pope Leo XIII, however, he told her she would go “not to the East, but to the West.” Her first stop was New York, where she and her sisters ministered to the Italian immigrants who had little support for their faith in the predominantly Protestant United States.
By the end of her life, her missionary work had taken her to establish sixty-seven institutions throughout the United States, Central America, and South America. Today, the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is established in seventeen countries on six continents. Mother Cabrini died in 1917. She was canonized in 1946 and named the Patroness of Immigrants in 1950.
You can learn more about St. Frances Cabrini here.
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