Saint Rita was born 1318 and died in 1472. When she was born she was given the name of Margherita Lotti. The day of Margherita’s baptism, she was surrounded by bees that were white and flew into her mouth and didn’t harm her in any kind of way. Her family wasn’t even frightened by this, but they believed she would be ardent to God. When Saint Rita was very young she wanted to join a convent, but her family had her marry a man named Paolo Mancini. When she was only 12 her husband had a brutal attitude towards her and she would be verbally and physically abused and she became a mother. Rita lead Paolo to be a better person. Paolo was eventually killed by one of his own allies. Her two sons that were very angry over their father's murder, they became like their father …show more content…
Once both of her sons were dead, she tried to join a monastery, but they wouldn't let her. In order for her to join the convent Rita had to stop the family feud between the Chiquis and the Mancinis. When she attempted to end the feud a plague began to go through Italy, so when Bernando Mancini was infected with this awful plague he ended the feud. With this feud finally over Rita was finally able to join the monastery. When she was 60 years old she asked God, “Please let me suffer like you, Divine Savior.” After this a wound appeared on her forehead, as if it were a thorn, like on Jesus’s crown, that had marked her. This wound would not heal, and this eventually led to her death. Rita asked her cousin to bring her a rose from the garden and of her old home, when she asked of this it was January, so there shouldn't be any roses, but when her cousin went there, there was one rose that was bloomed, she took that rose to Rita. Four months later Rita died on May 22, 1457. You can still see her body today in the Saint Rita shrine at Cacsia. Saint Rita is the patron saint of impossible cases, difficult marriages, and
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.
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.
According to The Decameron, “neither the advice of physicians nor the power of medicine appeared to have any value or profit” when it came to treating the disease (Document 2). The source of the Plague was vaguely understood, but there were many misconceptions among the general populous. Many people took the plague to be a religious sign. A painting by Giovanni Sercambi around the year 1400 depicts the Angel of Death shooting arrows down at the people below, showing how the Plague struck some people but missed others (Document 3). Additionally, the nursery rhyme “Ring A-Round the Rosy” refers to the rosary beads which Catholics believed would provide God’s help (Document
Julian of Norwich lived during a time of great fear dominated by economic and physical hardships, feudal era of control, fear of death from the bubonic plague, corruption within the church’s hierarchy and doubt and insincerity was rampant amongst believers. Living a simple existence she depende...
The Mirabal sisters from the Dominican Republic, known as the butterflies, fought against the regime of the cruel dictator Rafael Trujillo. They were murdered on November 25, 1960, for their activism and work in the anti-Trujillo movement known as the Fourteenth of June. Their sacrifice is still recognized today, 57 years later, and has had a lasting impact on human rights activism throughout the world. Their brutal assassination led to a regime change and eventual assassination of President Trujillo, recognition of the power resistant movements hold and world-wide awareness of violence against women.
Her religion did not offer the peace she was searching for (Hendrick, 92). Her children play a role in her final moments. Cornelia is Granny’s daughter with who she lives and who is dutiful (Hendrick, 91). Jimmy is Granny’s son. When she drops the rosary beads, which were meaningless, she clasps Jimmy’s hand in love and realizes she is dying.
Magdalena Solis, mostly known as “High Priestess of Blood”, was born in Monterrey, Mexico. She was born into a family so poor that her and her brother joined a cult with Santos and Cayetano Hernandez. Magdalena’s position was of a prostitute, while her brother was her hustler. Magdalena kept her sexual job for a very long time; it wasn’t till 1962 when her job would intensify. During late 1962 and mid-1963, Magdalena and the cult would advertise themselves as gods spreading rumors that they would bring good luck to the people who participated in the sex rituals. In these rituals, people would give money in hopes of receiving luck, but after several rituals people grew anxiously. Later, two people were tired of not receiving anything, and decided to leave. Those two people were given a punishment by Magdalena, which were lynched by the followers. After these two murders, Magdalena craved gruesome human sacrifices that would intensify with each kill.
She lived in a palace and grew up in wealth, pleasures, charm, dignities, and talent. At the age of fourteen, she was engaged to the prince of Massa Carrara, but his mistress murdered him with a toxic drink. When the old woman and her mother set sail to Gaeta pirates raped the women where eventually they would be sold as slaves. Despite the numerous times the old woman was raped and sold she was pleased to meet a countryman who took her to a nearby cottage to care for her. A nobleman took the old woman as his slave and beat her daily for two years until he was executed. The old woman almost committed suicide several times in her life, but never carried it out because she “loved life” too much.
Teresa Sánchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada lived in Avila, Spain where she was born in 1515 and lived during the Reformation until her death at age 67. She was canonized in 1622, forty years after her death. St. Teresa's grandmother was forced to be converted from a Jew into a Christian during the Inquisition. Without her grandmother’s conversion, St. Teresa would never have become a Christian saint. Her parents were Godly people and showed tremendous integrity.
In the early stages of Catherine's life the surfacing modern age was bringing with it social turmoil which spread throughout Europe (Giordani 3). During Catherine's lifetime, according to Mary Ann Sullivan in her essay “St. Catherine of Siena,” the center of Catholic rule fluctuated between Rome and Avignon and contributed to a schism between popes in Italy and France (1). Catherine was born 23rd in a line of 25 children and, according to Sullivan “even at a young age, [she] sensed the troubled society around her and wanted to help” (1). While her parents were not exceptionally religious, St. Catherine's biographer Blessed Raymond of Capua discusses Catherine's early zeal for Catholic practices: “When she was about five she learned the Hail Mary, and repeated it over and over again as often as she could…she was inspired by heaven to address the Blessed Virgin in this way whenever she went up and down stairs, stopping to kneel on each step as she did so” (24). Her devotion to the Virgin Mary would become especially important in a vision she had around this time while walking with her brother to visit one of her sisters.
After days and days of chatting, Lucian told her bad news that Callie couldn’t believe was true, but she knew it had to be. This was what Teresa had been mad about weeks ago. Lucian told her that one of the people who could see the people of Santary was Teresa Spire, and that she was concerned that Lucian and his group were controlling Vancantion, so she was getting very angry. The people of Santary were getting worried about how they were going to defend against Teresa and the army that she was getting ready.
She was baptized August 27, 1910 as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. However, she is commonly known as Mother Teresa. Her family was of Albanian descent and were devoutly Catholic. They were greatly involved in the local church, especially her mother, who was a compassionate and pious women. Her father was an entrepreneur and worked as a trader of medicines and other goods in addition to a construction contractor. Tragically, however, when Mother Teresa was only 8 years old, her father became suddenly ill and died. Although the cause of his death remains unseen, it has been speculated that political antagonists poisoned him. After her father’s death, she grew remarkably close to her mother, who impressed upon her with a deep obligation to charity (Mother Teresa). Moreover, in 1912 at the age of twelve, Mother Teresa felt a strong call from God. Knowing she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ, she left her parental home at eighteen.
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.
Our Lady of Fatima is the title for the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the apparitions the children had experienced in Fatima, Portugal in 1917. The three children were Lucia dos Santos, also known as Sister Lucia of Fatima, and her two cousins Jacinita and Fransciso Marto. During the spring and summer of 1916, the children were out herding sheep near Fatima and they experienced the visitation of an angel three times. The angel revealed himself as “The Angel of Peace” and taught them the spiritual ways of living such as prayer, sacrificing and how to spend time adoring the Lord. The next year, on May 13th, the children claimed to have saw a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparking water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.”
She was a women of great faith and was raised in a Catholic Church and community which she passed down. I didn’t really understand her as a kid until I really experienced life then I understood her teachings and trainings. She took religion serious and she made sure everyone of us participated in church. Today I’m thankful because my morals and ethics were built up by her because I followed her steps. My grandma had most of what the “masses” think gives happiness. Her religious life helped her to gain a lifetime virtue and to understand morality. Money was not really a problem for her. I believe poverty could make one lose ethical values. Some people steal because they have no money and stealing is bad, what is bad is bad but in such case they have no choice. She really believed in helping people, even when she can’t afford what someone asked of, she gets herself in debt just to help. My grandma’s town is known to take education really serious and they go to any extent to help sending each other’s kids to school, which became part of my grandma and I respected her a lot for that. She loved and cared for other children like they were her