Saint Gemma Galgani
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- Also known as
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Gemma Galani
Virgin of Lucca
- Memorial
- 11 April
- Profile
- Daughter of a poor pharmacist; mother died when she was seven, her father when she was eighteen, and she took care of her seven brothers and sisters.
Lifelong laywoman.
Cured in her 20's of spinal tuberculosis by prayer to Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows.
Rejected by the religious orders to which she applied as they would not believe her cure and were suspicious of the claims of a miracle.
She became a Passionist tertiary.
Stigmatist, receiving the wounds on her hands and feet each Thursday evening through Friday afternoon starting in June 1899 and continuing into 1901.
Visionary; she saw her guardian angel daily, and visits from the devil who tempted her to spit on the cross and break a rosary.
Her canonization faced stiff opposition by those who either disbelieved or wished to avoid attention to her visions and stigmata.
- Born
- 12 March 1878 at Borgo Nuovo di Camigliano, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
- Died
- Holy Saturday, 11 April 1903 at Borgo Nuovo di Camigliano, Lucca, Italy of tuberculosis;
relics interred in the Passionist monastery, Lucca
- Venerated
- 29 November 1931
- Beatified
- 14 May 1933 by Pope Pius XI
- Canonized
- 2 May 1940 by Pope Pius XII
- Patronage
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apothecaries
druggists
loss of parents
pharmacists
temptations
- Prayers
- Prayer by Saint Gemma
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- Additional Information
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Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Online
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Google Directory
New Catholic Dictionary
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, Picayune, Mississippi
Saint Gemma's Hospice, Leeds, England
The Saints: A Concise Biographical Dictionary, by John Coulson
Story of the Passionists, by Roger Mercurio, C.P.
Wikipedia
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- Readings
- If I saw the gates of Hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I should not despair, I should not lose hope of mercy, because I should trust in You, my God.
- Saint Gemma Galgani
O my soul, bless Jesus.
Never forget the many graces He has given thee.
Love that God who so loves thee.
Lift thyself up to Him, who has lowered Himself for thee; show thyself as He shows Himself with thee; be clean of heart, be pure.
Love thy Jesus, who has lifted thee out of so much misery.
Love thy God, bless thy Lord
- Saint Gemma Galgani
Gemma Galgani from Lucca, most pure virgin, being in her twenty-fifth year, died of consumption, but was more consumed by the fire of divine love than by her wasting disease.
On the eleventh of April, 1903, the vigil of Easter, her soul took its flight to the bosom of her heavenly Spouse.
O beautiful soul, in the company of the Angels!"
- inscription on the marble tablet that covers Saint Gemma Galgani's remains in the chapel of the Passionist Sisters in Lucca