"It is the saints who change the world for the better, they transform it in a lasting way, injecting in it energies that only love inspired by the Gospel can arouse. The saints are the great benefactors of humanity!" Pope Benedict XVI
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Day 295 -- Blessed Jane Gerard
Blessed Jane Gerard was a Sister of Charity in Arras, France. She was imprisoned in 1792. In 1794, she was martyred by guillotine with Blessed Teresa Fantou, Blessed Francoise Lanel, and Blessed Madeleine Fontaine in Cambrai, France. She was beatified in June 1920 by Pope Benedict XV and awaits canonization.
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