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Gerard Majella (Italian: Gerardo Maiella; 6 April 1726 – 16 October 1755) was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church.
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St. Gerard Majella is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born in 1726 in Muro, Italy to a family of seven. Majella grew up in a poverty with a great respect for the poor. As he was just 12 when his father passed away, he was forced to grow up fast. Shortly after his father's death, his mother ...
Jul 30, 2022 · St. Gerard Majella: A Saint for Pregnant Women. As a child, Gerard Majella (d. 1755) was so good and prayed so intensely that his mother told the neighbors that her boy “was born for heaven.”. He took up the trade of a tailor, but Gerard longed to enter religious life.
St. Gerard died of tuberculosis on October 16, 1755 at the age of 29 in Caposele. He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII on January 29, 1893, and was canonized on December 11, 1904...
St Gerard Majella, one of Ireland’s best-loved saints, known here particularly as the ‘mothers’ saint. He was canonized over 100 years ago . Robert McNamara CSsR tells us the St Gerard Majella story
Gerard Majella (1726-1755) is known popularly today as “The Mothers’ Saint.” It may seem odd that a male religious should be the saint for mothers, mothers-to-be and those wanting to become mothers. The origin comes from an incident that happened in the last months of his short life.
Gerard, the youngest of the five children of Dominic and Benedetta Galella Majella, was born on April 6, 1726, in the small town of Muro, which is a few miles distant from Naples in southern Italy. He was very sickly at birth and was immediately taken to the Cathedral church for Baptism.
St. Gerard Majella. Born in Muro, about fifty miles south of Naples, in April, 1726; died 16 October, 1755; beatified by Leo XIII, 29 January, 1893, and canonized by Pius X, 11 December, 1904. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and humiliations.
See Link below for the biography of the Saint by Fr. Saint-Omer. Contents: OVERVIEW OF THE LIFE OF ST. GERARD MAJELLA. HIS PRODIGIES ON BEHALF OF THE SICK. HIS PRODIGIES IN FAVOR OF CHILDREN. HIS PRODIGIES IN FAVOR OF MOTHERS. NOVENA FOR MOTHERHOOD. FOR AWAITING MOTHERS AND FATHERS.
Aug 22, 2023 · St. Gerard Majella is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born in 1726 in Muro, Italy to a family of seven. Majella grew up in a poverty with a great respect for the poor. As he was just 12 when his father passed away, he was forced to grow up fast.
