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About St. Gerard Majella
1726 – 1755 · Feast October 16 · Religious / Redemptorist Brother
Italian Redemptorist lay brother (1726-1755), tailor's apprentice who entered the Redemptorists in 1749 and became a noted thaumaturge in his short life. Falsely accused by a young woman of fathering her child, refused to defend himself; she later retracted. Patron of expectant mothers and unborn children. Canonized 1904 by Pius X.
St. Gerard Majella is the patron saint of Expectant Mothers, Unborn Children, Childbirth and Lay Brothers.
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