St Gerard Medal Open Cut Goldtone Shrine St Lucy's Church Newark, NJ 1" long
St. Gerard Majella was born at Muro, Italy, in 1726 and joined the Redemptorists
at the age of 23. Because of his great piety, extraordinary wisdom, and his
gift of reading consciences, he was permitted to counsel communities of
religious women. He also had the
faculties of levitation and bi-location associated with certain mystics. This
great saint is invoked as a patron of expectant mothers as a result of a
miracle effected through his prayers for a woman in labor.
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