“When parents pray the rosary, at the end of each decade they should hold the rosary aloft and say to Our Lady, ‘With these beads bind my children to your Immaculate Heart!’ She will attend to their souls.” Born in France in 1590, Louise de Marillac never knew her mother, who died shortly after she was born.
Born September 8, 1380, Bernardine lost his parents when he was small and was cared for by his aunts and an older cousin.
Francisco Marto was eight years old when an angel appeared to prepare him, his sister Saint Jacinta, and their cousin Lucia for an important mission.
“Make my language clear, my Savior, open my mouth and, after filling it, penetrate my heart so that my acts may correspond to my words.” Romanos was born in Syria around 490 to a family of Jewish origin that had probably converted by the time of his birth.
“For straightway, while I meditated, my thought was turned into melody of song…and by reason of the interior sweetness which was outpoured upon me, I was impelled to sing what before I had only said.” Richard Rolle was born in Yorkshire around the year 1300.
“We cannot fear a mortal torment, we,/ This martyr’s blood hath moistened all our hearts,/ Whose parted quarters when we chance to see/ We learn to play the constant Christian’s parts.” Henry Walpole was a 23-year-old law student when he witnessed the martyrdom of Saint Edmund Campion.
Born in Breslau (at the time in Germany, now in Poland) in 1891, Edith Stein abandoned her Jewish faith when she was thirteen.
Nicholas Postgate (sometimes Posket or Poskitt) was the child of staunch English Catholics during the English Reformation.
“I love to penetrate beyond the veil of the soul to this inner sanctuary where we live alone with God….
