by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | Saints Who Faced Trauma
St. Therese of Lisieux is one of the most popular saints of modern times, known for her Little Way where one transforms everyday things into ways to love God. St. Therese was born to Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin, the youngest of their nine children. She had a...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | Saints Who Faced Trauma
St. Rita of Cascia is patron saint of those with marital problems and who face abuse. Rita was especially devoted to the Passion of Christ, meditating often on Jesus’ surrender in those moments, especially during his agony in the garden, when he prayed, “Not thy...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | Saints Who Faced Trauma
St. Martin de Porres was born in Peru to an unmarried Spanish gentlemen and a freed slave from Panama, who was of African or Native American descent. When Martin was young, his father abandoned him, his mother, and his younger sister, leaving them in deep poverty. He...
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | Saints Who Faced Trauma
St. Maria Goretti was born into a poor family in Italy. When she was six years old, she and her family moved from the eastern to the western side of Italy hoping to escape poverty. However, when Maria was nine, her father died, putting the family further into poverty....
by Abby | Mar 13, 2025 | Saints Who Faced Trauma
St. Kateri Tekakwitha was born to a Christian Algonquin Indian, who had been taken captive by the Iroquois and given as wife to Kateri’s father, the chief of the Mohawk clan. When Kateri was four, smallpox stuck the village, killing her parents and a little brother....
