Life of Saint Gerard Majella

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Christianity - Biographies

Authors: Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips In Year : 1915

Book Language: English

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Introduction
His Childhood
His Apprenticeship to a Trade
His Trials and Vocation
His Novitiate
His Extraordinary Gifts
His Journeyings To and Fro
Monte Gargano
His Visits to the World
His Charity During an Epidemic
His Interior Life
His Great Trial
His Letters
His Wonderful Life at Naples
He Is Called Father of the Poor
With Father Margotta Again
New Marvels
His Last Journey
The End Draws Near
His Last Illness
The Death-Bed of a Saint
Glorified in Heaven and On Earth
Prayers for Novena in Honour of Saint Gerard

Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and humiliations.

St. Alphonsus considered him a miracle of obedience. Although weak in body, he did the work of three, and his great charity earned for him the title of Father of the Poor. He was a model of every virtue, and so drawn to Our Lord in the tabernacle that he had to do violence to himself to keep away. An angel in purity, he was accused of a shameful crime; but he bore the calumny with such patience that St. Alphonsus said: "Brother Gerard is a saint".

He was favoured with infused knowledge of the highest order, ecstasies, prophecy, discernment of spirits, and penetration of hearts, bilocation, and with what seemed an unlimited power over nature, sickness, and the devils.

His intercession is sought for children, unborn children, women in childbirth, mothers, expectant mothers, motherhood, the falsely-accused, good confessions, lay brothers and Muro Lucano, Italy. (Adapted from the 1919 Catholic Encyclopedia and Wikipedia)