Saints

St. Rose of Lima

-she’s as lovely as a rose > name given by a housemade

-made a vow of virginity agianst her parents wishes

-joined third order of st dominic

-cared for orphans, the sick and the aged in her own room

-canonized 1671

-patron saint of peru

-first st. of the americas

-Born in northern italy to poor farming family

-2nd of ten children

-ordianed priest in 1858 after studies in Podua

-elected pope in 1903

-reformed church music by restoring gregorian chant

-”pope of the Eucharist”

-lowered age to 7 for reception of eucharist

-motto > to restore all things in christ

'-”I was born poor, I have lived in poveerty, and I wish to die poor.”

- canonized may 29, 1954

-introduced to jesus by the apostle Philip

-known in John’s gospel as Nathaniel

- asked ”can anything good come from nazareth?”

-jesus said “there was no duplicity in him.”

-preached the gospel in India

-was flayed when maryrtred

-born of a christian family in Roman Africa

-as a young girl she married an older man, Patricius, who was pagan and later converted

-bore four children

-prayed and cried for her oldest son, Augustine, to accept the christian faith

-died in ostia after witnessing Augustine’s baptism

-patron saint of mothers

-”I ask only this of you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord, wherever you may be.”

-Son of christian mother monica and pagan father patricius in North Africa

-led a sinful life and had a son with his mistress

-son was adeodatus which means gift of god

-heard bishop ambrose preach in Milan because of his mothers encouragement

-baptized at 33 by ambrose; ordained priest at 36 and bishop at 41

-preached and wrote about the truth against heresies

-one of the 37 doctors of the church

-”you have made us for yourself, O God, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” (The confessions)