St. Clare of Assisi was an Italian saint, and she was born on July 16, 1194 and died August 11, 1253 , at the age of 59. She was born in Assisi and her name birth was Chiara Offreduccio. St. Clare is honored in the Roman Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, and Lutheran Church. She was the founder of the Order of Poor Ladies. St. Clare was born into a wealthy family, who lived in a palace in Assisi. Later in life she entered into Clare's monastery, along with her sisters Catarina and Beatrix. St. Clare was raised a woman of prayer, and through her life she blessed many around her which led to her ordination.
St. Clare of Assisi took prayer and her religion seriously. Though she was thought to marry, which was a formal family tradition, she
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took a different path. At a church in San Giorgio in Assisi, she heard St. Francis preach during a Lenten service at the age of 18. St. Clare asked St. Francis to help her live by the Gospel. On Palm Sunday on March 20, 1212 she went to the chapel of Porizunicula, with her aunt Bianca, to see St. Francis. She arrived at the chapel with her hair cut and with a plain robe, instead of a rich gown. After their encounter, St.
Francis placed her in the convent of the Benedictine nuns of San Paulo, near Bastia. She was urged by her father to return, without a doubt she remained at the convent. A few days later she wished for better solitude. St. Francis then sent her to another monastery of the Benedictine nuns called Sant' Angelo in Panzo, it was on one of the flanks of Subasio. There she was able to join her sister Catarina, who took the name Agnes. After awhile at Benedictine a small home was built for them, along with another woman. They lived a simple life of poverty and seclusion from the world, according to a Rule which Francis gave them as a Second Order, called the Poor Clares. San Damiano became the center of St. Clare's new religious order. They lived a life of manual labor and prayer. The nuns were barefoot, slept on the ground, ate no meat and observed almost complete silence. Ordered by Pope Gregory IX, San Damiano became part of the order he founded because of the prestige of St. Clare's monastery. San Damiano emerged as the most important house in the order, and St. Clare became its leader. Ten years later after she passed, the order became known as the Order of Saint …show more content…
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Claire was an advocate for the way Jesus fasted, and in 1263 Pope Urban IV officially changed the name of the Order of Poor Ladies to the Order of Saint Clare. Pope Pius XII designated her as the patron saint of television in 1958, on the basis that when she was too ill to attend Mass, she had reportedly been able to see and hear it on the wall of her room. She was canonized on September 26, 1255, in Rome, by Pope Alexander IV. St. Clare has a shrine in honor of her life and legacy in Basilica of Saint Clare, Assisi, and her feast day is August 11. St. Clare is the patron of eye disease, goldsmiths, laundry, embroiderers, gilders, good weather, needleworkers, Santa Clara Pueblo, telephones, telegraphs, and television. A life led by God and Jesus’ life, St. Clare led her community to God, which led to her being honored and canonized, also her skeleton is displayed in Assisi, to be honored by her devoted community. In 1872, about 600 years after her death, Saint Clare's remains were transferred to a newly constructed shrine in the crypt of the Basilica of Saint Clare where they can still be seen today. St. Clare accepted God’s call and chose to help lead others to the King of the
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Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travelers and children, is one of the most popular yet mysterious saints of the Catholic Church. Though considered a saint. Saint Christopher is not in the official canon of the saints, and not much is really known about him. It is theorized that Saint Christopher was actually a martyr named Reprobus who was beheaded in the third century.
St Marie was born in the year 1872, in the town Nazareth,Israel.When her mother died while birthing the ninth child, her father had to move to find work She was adopted by a village family When she was 15, she had been entered into the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She had took the name Marie Amandine. She worked as a nurse in France Then she worked at a mission hospital and a orphanage Saint Marie was also known as “The Laughing Foreigner” Saint Marie was the patron saint of laughter. Her Joyfulness seemed to gain the esteem of the chinese.
Catherine of Siena and Joan of Arc were small lapses in this model, since they did not come to power by wealth or economic status. Although they share many similarities, they have a few differences. Joan and Catherine stood out among millions of women and challenged the system of the time. Catherine of Siena was said to have received visions of Jesus, telling her to be kind to others and help the poor and sick. She was incredibly religious and did everything possible to help people at every turn. She also played a major role in moving the papacy from Avignon back to Rome. This made her very influential to others, and she gained a following. Joan and Catherine were incredibly similar in the ways that they gained fame through their visions, however, they differed in the motives that they had for their actions. Catherine went on to help many people in need, and was eventually made a saint of the Catholic Church. Her actions of kindness and grace ranked her in religious
Frances Cabrini was born in July 15, 1850 to Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardi, Italy. She was one of eleven children born to the Cabrini family and one of the only four children that survived past adolescence. She was born two months premature and was small and weak as a child. These factors, as well as the strong faith of her parents, would have an impact on the rest of her life, mission, and works. Agostino Cabrini, her father, often read Propagation of the Faith to her and the rest of the family. The stories were all about the missions in China and from a young age, Frances desired to become a missionary. By the age of eighteen, Frances knew that she wanted to be a nun, however; her weak health stood in the way. She could not join the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So instead, in 1863, Frances enrolled as a boarding student at the Normal School in Arluno with the intentions of becoming a schoolteacher. The school was directed by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. Frances lived at the school for five years, residing in the convent with the nuns. Frances was elated to live with the nuns and to share a faith-centered life with them. She graduated from the Normal School in 1868 with a degree in teaching.
Saint Teresa left home at the age of 18 to pursue her dream of doing missionary work, and joined the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Sisters of Loreto. On May 24, 1931, she took her first religious vows as a nun; at that time she chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries. She went around the world helping those in need, and created Missionaries to Charity. This group runs homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis.
"We begged God to accept our lives and our blood and unite them to His life and His blood for the salvation of these tribes."1 This quote gives a small window into the heroism and abandon in which St. Isaac Jogues lived out his call to evangelize the native people of New France (Canada). Driven by a deep admiration for the Jesuit missionaries of Japan and China, he sacrificially dove deep into the culture of those who he lived with. He did this so that Jesus would not not simply come across as a European savior, but as a universal redeemer who speaks to people in their own language, through their own heritage and traditions. Even after facing brutal torture at the hands of the Mohawks, St. Isaac Jogues persisted in spreading the gospel in Canada, trusting that through his sufferng God would bring about salvation.
Catherine of Siena was born in Italy in 1347 at a time when political and religious changes were affecting the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Dedicating her life to the Holy Spirit from a very young age, Catherine pursued a life of purity and simplicity that served as a background to her great literary work, The Dialogue of the Divine Providence . Her work focuses on the importance of prayer and its transcendent power in human life.
St. Rose Philippine grew up very fond of visiting convents and helping the less fortunate. She lived a very humble life.
The Virgin Mary is celebrated and loved throughout the world. She is the image we all women and child look up to and pray. She was born without original sin and throughout her years she never sinned and that's why she considered the Mother of God. “Mary is what it looks like to believe that we already are who God says we are,” (Weber, Nadia Bolz.).
She begged him to help her so that she also can live out the Gospels. At the time Clare was eighteen years of age. Francis promised her that he would help in every way because he could see that many people would follow her example in times to come. Then Clare founded a little group of her own for women called the Poor Clare’s. Saint Clare is the patron saint of television, good weather, eye disease, etc and her feast day is on August eleventh. Clare took good care of Francis when he was in the process of death. After Francis died she continued to pursue the Franciscan way of life until her death in 1253. Two years after Clare’s death in 1255, she was canonized a saint but Pope Alexander
St. Rose of Lima was born in Lima, Peru on April 20, 1586. She was originally named Isabel Flores de Olivia. Her father was a Spaniard and her mother was Inca, she was a daughter of ten other siblings. When Isabel was still an infant, her mother and few of her friends were sitting near Isabel’s cradle, and then a rose appeared coming
Saint Catherine of Siena is the saint that I have chosen to be my saint. She was very interesting to me, and her story was very intriguing. She is the patron saint of fire prevention, bodily ills, sick people, miscarriages, nurses, and illness. She was canonized in 1461 by Pope Pius II. Her feast day is now celebrated on April 29.
Saint Gemma Galgani was born March 12, 1878, to Enrico and Aureliana Galgani. Saint Gemma was welcomed into a small, humble village on the outskirts of Lucca, Italy. The very next day, her parents took her to be baptized into the Catholic faith. Her parents gave the ripest the authority to name their child, and the priest bestowed upon her the name Gemma. His reasoning was that there was not a single saint of the name “Gemma” and it was only fitting the “Gem” of Christ had such a name.
She is the patron of nurses and can be helpful when you pray to her. For example, a month ago I fractured my ankle and the doctor said I would be out for around six weeks. I prayed for her to help the pain and swelling go away. Also, I prayed to Saint Catherine, to not be out for the full six weeks, so I could go back to cheer and not miss any important national competitions. Besides being helpful she is inspiring to me, of her abilities to resist temptations and her devotion to God. One time my dad told me to only have water because it was late at night. However, I had been desperately craving iced tea all day and thought I “had” to have it. So I opened the door and took out the iced tea, but before I poured it in, I thought about my decision. I remembered how my saint was able to pray to God to help her resist her temptations. Therefore, I placed the iced tea back in the fridge and accepted water instead like my dad suggested. As a result of having thoughts to disobey my dad, I prayed to God like Catherine did for help. Saint Catherine lived a life dedicated to God in the real world (reality). It is encouraging to me that she was able to live a life fully devoted to God and not have any distractions, doubts, or fears holding her
The profession of nursing during the time of Saint Fabiola centered around works of mercy. Christ and his disciples had paved the way for a nursing profession in which people performed acts of kindness without expecting anything in return. Many times, it was women of higher class positions who served as matrons for the sick in their community. It was men who often acted as physicians and in case of war, monks and Christian knights provided care for the soldiers (Cherry and Jacob, pg. 7). There was little