Today is the feast of Saint Michael de Sanctis, also known as St. Michael of the Saints, a Spanish Discalced Trinitarian priest, the patron of cancer patients. Michael Argemir was born on September 29, 1591 at Vic, Catalonia, Spain. At age 6, he told his parents that he planned to become a monk and began modeling his life after Saint Francis of Assisi. Michael’s parents died when he was about ten years old. He then served as an apprentice with a local merchant. During this apprenticeship, he continued his fervent devotion to the Lord, especially to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At the age of 12, he joined the Trinitarian Friars at Barcelona, taking his vows at St. Lambert’s monastery in Saragosa four years later. Shortly afterwards, Michael expressed a desire to join the reformed group of Trinitarians and was given permission to do so. He went to the Novitiate at Madrid and, after studies at Seville and Salamanca, he was ordained a priest. Twice he served as Superior of the hou
I think this is a friendly yet firm admonition for all U.S. citizens. He is basically saying that if we continue to lead the "the so-called 'First' World" in exporting "its spiritual toxic waste that contaminates the peoples of other continents"—as Pope Benedict XVI said at the African synod in 2009, definitely alluding to the revocation of the Mexico City Policy forbidding the funding of overseas abortions and the worldwide "culture of death" and murder—the U.S. will not be beautiful, blessed, nor great. With Our Lady of Fatima's intercession, it can be.
ReplyDeleteMary, mother of America and vessel of life itself, pray for us!