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This summarization is about a sterling silver pendant with the image of St. Gerard Majella, patron saint of pregnant women. The pendant is 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, and does not come with a chain. The pendant is made of sterling silver and is about 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. The pendant is made of sterling silver and is about 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. St. Gerard is known as the patron saint of pregnant women, childbirth, and mothers. He was obedient to Gods will and sacrificed his will to do Gods work. He was born to a family of tailors in Italy and became a journeyman tailor. He eventually set up his own shop and was very successful. When Gerard was twenty-three, Redemptorist missionaries came to his home town and observed him in his missionary duties. He became convinced that he belonged in their order and asked if he could join them. They were reluctant to let him join because of his health, but he escaped out his window and followed them. After taking his first vows, he plunged into the lifestyle with abandon. He did the work of three men and was considered a miracle of obedience. Gerard
Sterling silver St Gerard Majella Pendant - Patron Saint of Pregnant women
2.5cm long x 1.5cm wide
Does not include a chain
St. Gerard
About St. Gerard Patron Saint of Pregnancy, Childbirth & Mothers
Obedience is hard. For someone to have perfect obedience seems nigh impossible and quite frankly, completely undesirable. Obedience is a sacrifice of our will to another persons will. Typically people dont like to sacrifice their will to another, and when they see someone who constantly does they think something must be wrong with them. Whats so amazing about St. Gerard is that he had perfect obedience to Gods will. He willingly sacrificed his will to Gods in order to do Gods work. This sacrifice was a great act of faith and love, which Gerard showed all throughout his life.
Gerard grew up with three older sisters. His mama, Benedetta, told him ever since he was little how amazing and overwhelming Gods love was. Gerard grew up with a loving heart, confident in Gods love. His dad died when Gerard was only twelve, and Gerard was apprenticed out to a tailor. He eventually became a journeyman tailor, the halfway-there spot in an apprenticeship. Soon after, he set up his own shop, run out of his mamas house. He ran a good business, and after he had set aside some of the profit for his mama and sisters, he donated the rest to the poor and to donations for prayers for the souls in purgatory.
When Gerard was twenty-three, Redemptorist missionaries came to his home town of Muro in Italy. After observing them in their missionary duties, he became convinced that he belonged in their order. Gerard asked if he could join their missionaries and was turned down because of his health. Gerard was not to be deterred from his vocation, and with the ingenuity imbedded in all young minds, tied his bed sheets together and escaped out his window to follow them.
The missionaries were twelve miles away from Muro when Gerard caught up with them. Not bad for a guy rejected because of health reasons. Gerard was reluctantly sent to the Redemptorist community in Deliceto, bearing a letter for the superior that read, in part, I am sending you another Brother, who will be useless as far as work is concerned The Father was mistaken: Gerard was anything but useless. After taking his first vows, he plunged into the lifestyle with abandon. He did the work of three men, and was considered a miracle of obedience.
True, Gerard was perfectly obedient. He longed for unity with Gods will so much that no matter what His will was, Gerard would do it. Since Gerard saw his superiors will as Gods will, he did everything and anything they asked him to do. So great was his obedience that they would merely think of something for him to do, and he would do it.
In obedience to Gods will, Gerard went on a lot of mission trips, running retreats, helping young girls join convents, helping the poor, saving souls, and performing miracles. There is a well- known story in St. Gerards life concerning one of the girls he helped get into a convent. Her name was Neria Caggiano. Neria found out that she was not cut out to be a nun, and within three weeks of joining the convent she went straight back home. As an explanation for her early departure, Neria slandered the sisters and their lifestyle. The people didnt buy it. Gerard was already seen as a saint, and he was the one who recommended the convent. So Neria shifted her attack. She sent a letter to St. Alphonsus Ligouri, founder and superior of the Redemptorists. In said letter, she confided that Gerard was not in an appropriate relationship with one of the daughters in the house of a family he stayed with on his mission trips.
St. Alphonsus was quite rightly appalled, and called for Gerard to explain. Gerard took a page out of Christs book and said not a single word. Without evidence to point either way except the letter, St. Alphonsus gave Gerard a severe penance. He was to have no contact with the outside world, and was forbidden from receiving the Eucharist until further notice. Gerard, believing the affair to be Gods will, submi
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