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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE |
Patroness of the Unborn - Feast Day: December 12 |
Pope John Paul II entrusted the cause of life to her loving protection, and placed under her motherly care the innocent lives of children, especially those who are in danger of not being born. More on Our Lady of Guadalupe at: http://www.sancta.org/intro.html |
St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, OFM Conv. |
Patron of Pro-Life Movement - Feast Day: August 14 |
Friar Maximilian offered himself to die in place of a young husband and father in Auschwitz. And he was the last to die, enduring two weeks of starvation, thirst, and neglect. More on Maximilian Kolbe: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsou rce/biography/Kolbe.html |
St. Gianna Molla |
Patroness of mothers and preborn childrent - Feast Day: April 28 |
St Gianna Beretta Molla was a physician, a working mom, professional woman, a loving wife, and a true Pro-Life witness. Many other mothers have been beatified for their heroic virtues, but St. Gianna is the first woman who did not go on to enter religious life after becoming widowed. She is the first cannonized women physician who was also a working mom. More on St. Gianna Beretta Molla: http://www.saintgianna.org/main.htm |