O God, who granted St. Gerard Majella great patience when accused, as well as a power to work miracles for the good of mankind, give us strength when we are faced with things that hinder our work for human life.
St. Gerard Majella,
Pray for us
3 Our Father
3 Hail Mary
3 Glory Be
About St. Gerard Majella: St. Gerard Majella joined the Redemptorist order as a lay brother. His mission was to bring the Word of God to the poor and to the needy. During his life he became very close to the peasants living in the countryside near Naples, Italy. Two events during his life have made him famous as the patron of mothers and the unborn. First, he was accused of fathering a child with a young woman. Before St. Alphonsus Liguori, the founder of the Redemptorist order, he stayed silent. Eventually, this malicious rumor was proven wrong by the very woman that had accused him. Secondly, he was visiting a peasant family one day and dropped his handkerchief, but when the family had discovered that he had left it, he told them to keep it. Later when the mother of the family was pregnant, she began to have serious complications during childbirth, and she asked that the saintly lay brother's handkerchief be brought to her. She was immediately delivered from her pain, and her baby was spared. We should ask St. Gerard's intercession upon all mothers and the unborn.
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