Chaplet of St Gerard Majella - Patron Saint of expectant mothers
Silver design
We used 8mm glitter enhanced round glass white beads. Each bead is capped with a small silver plated flower cap, which in turn has tiny glass silver seed beads. On the one end of the Chaplet is the medal of St Gerard Majella, and on the other end, the Holy Family/Holy Spirit medal - imported from Italy.
28cm in length
Prayer sheet included
Boxed
Saint Gerard Majella
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AKA
: None
Born
: April 23, 1725 in Muro Lucano, Basilicata, Kingdom of Naples (Italy)
Died
: October 16, 1755 at Caposele, Italy of Tuberculosis
Venerated
: Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
: January 29, 1893 by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized
: December 11, 1904 by Pope Pius X
Feast Day
: October 16
Patronages
: Childbirth
Children
Expectant Mothers
Falsely Accused People
Good Confessions
Lay Brothers
Motherhood
Pro-Life Movement
Unborn Children
Places
: Muro, Italy
Basilicata, Italy
Saint Gerard was born at Muro, Italy, in 1726 and joined the Redemptorists at the age of twenty-three, becoming a professed lay brother in 1752. He served as sacristan, gardener, porter, infirmarian, and tailor. However, because of his great piety, extraordinary wisdom, and his gift of reading consciences, he was permitted to counsel communities of religious women.
This humble servant of God also had the faculties of
levitation
and
bi-location
associated with certain mystics. His charity, obedience, and selfless service , as well as his ceaseless mortification for Christ, made him the perfect model of lay brothers. He was afflicted with tuberculosis and died in 1755 at the age of twenty-nine. He was canonized in 1904 by Pope Saint Pius X.
This great Saint is invoked as a patron of expectant mothers as a result of a miracle effected through his parents for a woman in labor.
Prayer
: God, by Your grace, Saint Gerard persevered in imitating Christ in His poverty and humility. Through his intercession, grant that we may faithfully follow our vocation and reach that perfection which You held out to us in Your Son. Amen.
