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Saint Gianna Beretta Molla 1922-1962 Feast Day: April 28 Patronage: mothers, physicians, preborn children

Gianna was an Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite knowing that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. Gianna died a week after giving birth to her child, who was present at her mother’s canonization in 2004.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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StFrances Xavier Cabrini

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

St Josephine Bakhita

St Katharine Drexel

St Gianna Molla

St Josemaria Escriva

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[eternal-echoes]

“Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.”

- St. Gianna Beretta Molla

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT GIANNA BERETTA MOLLA The Patroness of Doctors, Wives and Unborn Children Feast Day: April 28

Gianna Beretta Molla became a pediatric physician, a wife, a mother and a saint!

She was born in Magenta near Milano, the tenth of Alberto and Maria Beretta’s 13 children. An active member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and a leader in the Catholic Action movement, Gianna also enjoyed skiing and mountain climbing. She earned degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of Pavia, eventually specializing in pediatrics. In 1952, Gianna opened a clinic in the small town of Mesero, where she met engineer Pietro Molla.

Shortly before their 1955 marriage, Gianna wrote to Pietro: "Love is the most beautiful sentiment that the Lord has put into the soul of men and women."

In the next four years the Mollas had three children: Pierluigi, Mariolina, and Laura. Two pregnancies following ended in miscarriage.

Early in her final pregnancy, doctors discovered that Gianna had both a child and a tumor in her uterus. She allowed the surgeons to remove the tumor but not to perform the complete hysterectomy that they recommended, which would have killed the child.

Seven months later in April 1962, Gianna Emanuela Molla was born at the hospital in Monza, but post-operative complications resulted in an infection for her mother. The following week Gianna Molla died at home, and was buried in the cemetery of Mesero.

Gianna Emanuela went on to become a physician herself. Gianna Beretta Molla was beatified in 1994 and canonized 10 years later.

Source: Franciscan Media

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The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day.

-St. Gianna Molla

[brookston]

Holidays 4.28

Holidays

Astronomy Day

Biological Clock Day

Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day

Chicken Tickling Day

Clean Comedy Day

Cubicle Day

Day for Safety and Health at Work (Poland)

Day of Dialogue

Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, Day 1 (US)

Eat Your Friends Day

Ed Balls Day (UK)

Flag Day (Åland Islands)

Flat White Day

Food Pyramid Day

428 Day

Global Pay It Forward Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Great Poetry Reading Day

Hyacinth Day (French Republic)

International Astronomy Day

International Automation Professionals Day

International Consanguinamory Day

International Girls in Information and Telecommunication Technologies Day

Jester’s Day (Elder Scrolls)

Kenneth Kaunda Day (Zambia)

Kiss Your Mate Day

Lawyers’ Day (India)

Mujahideen Victory Day (Afghanistan)

Mutiny On the Bounty Day

National Anger Day (UK)

National BSL Day (UK)

National Brave Hearts Day

National Cubicle Day

National Day of Mourning (Canada)

National Franklin Day

National Great Poetry Reading Day

National Headshot Day

National Heroes’ Day (Barbados)

National Kiss Your Mate Day

National Poetry and Literature Day (Indonesia)

National “Say Hi to Joe” Day

National Suck Breast Day

National Superhero Day

National Teach Children to Save Day

National Willy Fog Day (UK)

National Workplace Wellbeing Day (Ireland)

Occupational Safety & Health Day

Pastele Blajinilor (Memory or Parent's Day; Moldova)

Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan)

Rip Cord Day

Saint Pierre-Chanel Day (Wallis and Futuna)

Santa Fe Trail Day

Sardinia Day (Italy)

Small Car Day

Steel Safety Day

Texas Wildflower Day

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan)

Victory Day (Afghanistan)

Workers’ Memorial Day (Gibraltar)

World Art Deco Day

World Day for Safety and Health at Work (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Blueberry Pie Day

4th & Last Sunday in April

Blue Sunday [Last Sunday]

Brasseries Portes Ouvertes (Open Breweries' Day; Belgium) [Last Sunday]

Dictionary Day [Sunday of Nat’l Library Week]

Divine Mercy Sunday [Last Sunday]

Drive It Day (UK) [4th Sunday]

Family Reading Week begins [Sunday before 1st Saturday in May]

International Search and Rescue Dog Day [Last Sunday]

International Twin Cities Day [Last Sunday]

Landsgemeinde (Switzerland) [Last Sunday]

Mother, Father Deaf Day [Last Sunday]

Music Minister Appreciation Day [Last Sunday]

National Blue Sunday and Day of Prayer for Abused Children [Last Sunday]

National Pet Parents Day [Last Sunday]

Pinhole Photography Day [Last Sunday]

Sunday of the Paralytic [Last Sunday]

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) [Last Sunday]

World Day of Marriage [Last Sunday]

World Nyckelharpa Day [Last Sunday]

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day [Last Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 28 (Last Week)

Go Diaper Free Week (thru 5.4) [From Last Sunday]

National Auctioneers Week (thru 5.4)

National Small Business Week (thru 5.4) [1st Week of May]

Preservation Week (thru 5.4)

Stewardship Week (thru 5.5) [Last Sunday to 1st Sunday]

Independence & Related Days

Maryland Statehood Day (#7; 1788)

Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan)

Festivals Beginning April 28, 2024

Blessing of the Fleet & Seafood Festival (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina)

The Good Food Awards (Portland, Oregon)

Heritage Fire (Atlanta, Georgia)

St. Thomas Carnival (Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands) [thru 5.5]

Sweet Corn Fiesta (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Taste of St. Augustine (St. Augustine, Florida)

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) [Last Sunday]

Feast Days

Aphrodisius and companions (Christian; Saint)

Blueberry Pie Day (Pastafarian)

Chicken Tickling Day (Leprechauns; Shamanism)

Cronan of Roscrea, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Cyril of Turov (Christian; Saint)

Didymus and Theodore (Christian; Martyrs)

Elmo’s Jacket (Muppetism)

Feast of Jamál (Beauty; Baha'i)

Floralia (Old Roman Goddess of Flowers)

Gianna Beretta Molla (Christian; Saint)

Harper Lee (Writerism)

José Malhoa (Artology)

Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969)

L’Africaine (The African Woman), by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera; 1865)

Louis Mary de Montfort (Christian; Saint)

Palmer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Pamphilus of Sulmona (Christian; Saint)

Patricius, Bishop of Pruse, in Bithynia (Christian; Saint)

Paul of the Cross (Christian; Saint)

Peter Chanel (Christian; Martyr)

Phocion (Positivist; Saint)

Pollio and others (Christian; Martyrs in Pannonia)

Terry Pratchett (Writerism)

Theodora and Didymus (Christian; Martyrs)

Vitalis and Valeria of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Walpurgisnacht, Day VI (Pagan)

Yom HaShoah (began last night; Judaism)

Yves Klein (Artology)

Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays

Palm Sunday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [17 of 53]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 20 of 60)

Premieres

Akeelah and the Beer (Film; 2006)

The Art of Excellence, by Tony Bennett (Album; 1987) [1st CD-only Release]

Bananas (Film; 1971)

Before These Crowded Street, by Crowded House (Album; 1998)

The Birth of Britain, by Winston Churchill (History Book; 1956)

Bridesmaids (Film; 2011)

Buck and the Preacher (Film; 1972)

Casino Royale (Film; 1967) [James Bond non-series film]

Chicago Transit Authority, by Chicago (Album; 1969)

The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (Novel; 1938)

FM (Film; 1978)

Frequency (Film; 2000)

Hair (Broadway Musical; 1968)

Hard Candy (Film; 2006)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Film; 2005)

The Hockey Champ (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

A Hound for Trouble (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

How to Be a Latin Lover (Film; 2017)

I Kissed a Girl, by Katy Perry (Song; 2008)

I’m the One, by DJ Khaled (Album; 2017)

Iron Man 2 (Film; 2010)

Kiss Me Deadly (Film; 1955)

Leave Well Enough Alone (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Love Me, Love My Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)

Loverboy (Film; 1989)

Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)

Mud Squad (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)s

Night (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Odd Ant Out (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1970)

A Painted House, by John Grisham (Novel; 2001)

Passport to Pimlico (Film; 1949)

Pennsylvania 6-5000, recorded by Glenn Miller (Song; 1940)

Polite Society (Film; 2023)

The Power of Positive Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale (Book; 1954)

The Prison Panic (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Problem, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2014)

Robinson Crusoe (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene (Mystery Novel; 1930) [1st Nancy Drew]

*61 (Film; 2001)

Slave to Love, by Bryan Ferry (Song; 1985)

Smoked Hams (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1947)

Starman, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)

Stick It (Film; 2006)

Suddenly It’s Spring (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1944)

Suffragette City, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)

Trailer Horn (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Viva Las Vegas, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Hugo, Ludwig, Pierre (Austria)

Dada, Ljudevit, Petar (Croatia)

Vlastislav (Czech Republic)

Vitalis (Denmark)

Lagle, Luige (Estonia)

Ilpo, Ilppo, Tuure (Finland)

Valérie (France)

Hugo, Ludwig, Pierre (Germany)

Valéria (Hungary)

Manilio, Pietro, Valeria (Italy)

Gundega, Gunta, Terēze (Latvia)

Rimgailė, Valerija, Vitalius, Vygantas (Lithuania)

Vivi, Vivian (Norway)

Arystarch, Maria, Paweł, Przybyczest, Waleria, Witalis (Poland)

Iason, Sosipatru (Romania)

Tamara (Russia)

Jarmila (Slovakia)

Luis, Pedro, Prudencio (Spain)

Ture, Tyra (Sweden)

Valeria, Valerian, Valerie, Valery (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 119 of 2024; 247 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 20 (Ren-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 20 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 19 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 29 Cyan; Eightday [29 of 30]

Julian: 15 April 2024

Moon: 79%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 7 Caesar (5th Month) [Themistocles]

Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 41 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April / 1st Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 9 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 4.28

Holidays

Astronomy Day

Biological Clock Day

Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day

Chicken Tickling Day

Clean Comedy Day

Cubicle Day

Day for Safety and Health at Work (Poland)

Day of Dialogue

Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, Day 1 (US)

Eat Your Friends Day

Ed Balls Day (UK)

Flag Day (Åland Islands)

Flat White Day

Food Pyramid Day

428 Day

Global Pay It Forward Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Great Poetry Reading Day

Hyacinth Day (French Republic)

International Astronomy Day

International Automation Professionals Day

International Consanguinamory Day

International Girls in Information and Telecommunication Technologies Day

Jester’s Day (Elder Scrolls)

Kenneth Kaunda Day (Zambia)

Kiss Your Mate Day

Lawyers’ Day (India)

Mujahideen Victory Day (Afghanistan)

Mutiny On the Bounty Day

National Anger Day (UK)

National BSL Day (UK)

National Brave Hearts Day

National Cubicle Day

National Day of Mourning (Canada)

National Franklin Day

National Great Poetry Reading Day

National Headshot Day

National Heroes’ Day (Barbados)

National Kiss Your Mate Day

National Poetry and Literature Day (Indonesia)

National “Say Hi to Joe” Day

National Suck Breast Day

National Superhero Day

National Teach Children to Save Day

National Willy Fog Day (UK)

National Workplace Wellbeing Day (Ireland)

Occupational Safety & Health Day

Pastele Blajinilor (Memory or Parent's Day; Moldova)

Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan)

Rip Cord Day

Saint Pierre-Chanel Day (Wallis and Futuna)

Santa Fe Trail Day

Sardinia Day (Italy)

Small Car Day

Steel Safety Day

Texas Wildflower Day

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan)

Victory Day (Afghanistan)

Workers’ Memorial Day (Gibraltar)

World Art Deco Day

World Day for Safety and Health at Work (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Blueberry Pie Day

4th & Last Sunday in April

Blue Sunday [Last Sunday]

Brasseries Portes Ouvertes (Open Breweries' Day; Belgium) [Last Sunday]

Dictionary Day [Sunday of Nat’l Library Week]

Divine Mercy Sunday [Last Sunday]

Drive It Day (UK) [4th Sunday]

Family Reading Week begins [Sunday before 1st Saturday in May]

International Search and Rescue Dog Day [Last Sunday]

International Twin Cities Day [Last Sunday]

Landsgemeinde (Switzerland) [Last Sunday]

Mother, Father Deaf Day [Last Sunday]

Music Minister Appreciation Day [Last Sunday]

National Blue Sunday and Day of Prayer for Abused Children [Last Sunday]

National Pet Parents Day [Last Sunday]

Pinhole Photography Day [Last Sunday]

Sunday of the Paralytic [Last Sunday]

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) [Last Sunday]

World Day of Marriage [Last Sunday]

World Nyckelharpa Day [Last Sunday]

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day [Last Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 28 (Last Week)

Go Diaper Free Week (thru 5.4) [From Last Sunday]

National Auctioneers Week (thru 5.4)

National Small Business Week (thru 5.4) [1st Week of May]

Preservation Week (thru 5.4)

Stewardship Week (thru 5.5) [Last Sunday to 1st Sunday]

Independence & Related Days

Maryland Statehood Day (#7; 1788)

Restoration of Sovereignty Day (Japan)

Festivals Beginning April 28, 2024

Blessing of the Fleet & Seafood Festival (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina)

The Good Food Awards (Portland, Oregon)

Heritage Fire (Atlanta, Georgia)

St. Thomas Carnival (Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands) [thru 5.5]

Sweet Corn Fiesta (West Palm Beach, Florida)

Taste of St. Augustine (St. Augustine, Florida)

Turkmen Racing Horse Festival (Turkmenistan) [Last Sunday]

Feast Days

Aphrodisius and companions (Christian; Saint)

Blueberry Pie Day (Pastafarian)

Chicken Tickling Day (Leprechauns; Shamanism)

Cronan of Roscrea, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Cyril of Turov (Christian; Saint)

Didymus and Theodore (Christian; Martyrs)

Elmo’s Jacket (Muppetism)

Feast of Jamál (Beauty; Baha'i)

Floralia (Old Roman Goddess of Flowers)

Gianna Beretta Molla (Christian; Saint)

Harper Lee (Writerism)

José Malhoa (Artology)

Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969)

L’Africaine (The African Woman), by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera; 1865)

Louis Mary de Montfort (Christian; Saint)

Palmer Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Pamphilus of Sulmona (Christian; Saint)

Patricius, Bishop of Pruse, in Bithynia (Christian; Saint)

Paul of the Cross (Christian; Saint)

Peter Chanel (Christian; Martyr)

Phocion (Positivist; Saint)

Pollio and others (Christian; Martyrs in Pannonia)

Terry Pratchett (Writerism)

Theodora and Didymus (Christian; Martyrs)

Vitalis and Valeria of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Walpurgisnacht, Day VI (Pagan)

Yom HaShoah (began last night; Judaism)

Yves Klein (Artology)

Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays

Palm Sunday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [17 of 53]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 20 of 60)

Premieres

Akeelah and the Beer (Film; 2006)

The Art of Excellence, by Tony Bennett (Album; 1987) [1st CD-only Release]

Bananas (Film; 1971)

Before These Crowded Street, by Crowded House (Album; 1998)

The Birth of Britain, by Winston Churchill (History Book; 1956)

Bridesmaids (Film; 2011)

Buck and the Preacher (Film; 1972)

Casino Royale (Film; 1967) [James Bond non-series film]

Chicago Transit Authority, by Chicago (Album; 1969)

The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (Novel; 1938)

FM (Film; 1978)

Frequency (Film; 2000)

Hair (Broadway Musical; 1968)

Hard Candy (Film; 2006)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Film; 2005)

The Hockey Champ (Disney Cartoon; 1939)

A Hound for Trouble (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

How to Be a Latin Lover (Film; 2017)

I Kissed a Girl, by Katy Perry (Song; 2008)

I’m the One, by DJ Khaled (Album; 2017)

Iron Man 2 (Film; 2010)

Kiss Me Deadly (Film; 1955)

Leave Well Enough Alone (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Love Me, Love My Mouse (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1966)

Loverboy (Film; 1989)

Mighty Mouse Meets Jekyll and Hyde Cat (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)

Mud Squad (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)s

Night (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Odd Ant Out (Ant and the Aardvark Cartoon; 1970)

A Painted House, by John Grisham (Novel; 2001)

Passport to Pimlico (Film; 1949)

Pennsylvania 6-5000, recorded by Glenn Miller (Song; 1940)

Polite Society (Film; 2023)

The Power of Positive Thinking, by Norman Vincent Peale (Book; 1954)

The Prison Panic (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1930)

Problem, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2014)

Robinson Crusoe (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

The Secret of the Old Clock, by Carolyn Keene (Mystery Novel; 1930) [1st Nancy Drew]

*61 (Film; 2001)

Slave to Love, by Bryan Ferry (Song; 1985)

Smoked Hams (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1947)

Starman, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)

Stick It (Film; 2006)

Suddenly It’s Spring (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1944)

Suffragette City, by David Bowie (Song; 1972)

Trailer Horn (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Viva Las Vegas, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1964)

Today’s Name Days

Hugo, Ludwig, Pierre (Austria)

Dada, Ljudevit, Petar (Croatia)

Vlastislav (Czech Republic)

Vitalis (Denmark)

Lagle, Luige (Estonia)

Ilpo, Ilppo, Tuure (Finland)

Valérie (France)

Hugo, Ludwig, Pierre (Germany)

Valéria (Hungary)

Manilio, Pietro, Valeria (Italy)

Gundega, Gunta, Terēze (Latvia)

Rimgailė, Valerija, Vitalius, Vygantas (Lithuania)

Vivi, Vivian (Norway)

Arystarch, Maria, Paweł, Przybyczest, Waleria, Witalis (Poland)

Iason, Sosipatru (Romania)

Tamara (Russia)

Jarmila (Slovakia)

Luis, Pedro, Prudencio (Spain)

Ture, Tyra (Sweden)

Valeria, Valerian, Valerie, Valery (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 119 of 2024; 247 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 15 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 20 (Ren-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 20 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 19 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 29 Cyan; Eightday [29 of 30]

Julian: 15 April 2024

Moon: 79%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 7 Caesar (5th Month) [Themistocles]

Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 41 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April / 1st Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 9 of 31)

[theologyforthelayman]

Sunday Mass Readings

Sunday, April 28 Fifth Sunday of Easter Roman Ordinary calendar St. Louis de Montfort, St. Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962) Acts of the Apostles 9,26-31. When he (Saul) arrived in Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. Then Barnabas took charge of him and brought him […] Sunday Mass Readings

[silvestromedia]

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 28

ST. PETER CHANEL, PRIEST, FIRST MARTYR OF OCEANIA

ST. LOUIS-MARY GRIGNION DE MONTFORT, FOUNDER OF THE COMPANY OF MARY

St. Cronan of Roscrea, 626 A.D. Founder and hermit in Ireland. He was the son of Odran, born in Munster, or possibly Ely O’Carroll, Offaly, Ireland. Cronan founded fifty monasteries, the first at Puay and the most famous at Roscrea. He ended his life as a blind hermit.

St. Gianna Beretta Molla, Roman Catholic laywoman and Patron of mothers, physicians, preborn children, April 28

[tpanan]

Did you know that many flowers have a Marian symbolism? These are Lily of the Valley -- they've also been called Our Lady's Tears because according to legend, Mary's tears that fell at the foot of the Cross turned into these tiny but fragrant blossoms. I've also heard that these were some of St. Gianna Molla's favorite flowers. 🌸🌸🌸

- Catholic Wife, Catholic Life

[eternal-echoes]

“Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through it’s crystal the world should see God.”

- St. Gianna Molla

[onetouchplus]

Love is the most beautiful sentiment the Lord has put into the souls of men and women.

-St. Gianna Beretta Molla