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A poor father had no way to care for his three daughters, until bags of gold began to appear through the window in the middle of the night. This is the most famous story of Saint Nicholas, the saint who inspired Santa Claus.
On the day after Christmas a king walks out into deep snow with his page to carry supper to a poor man, and his footprints warm the way.
Humble Nhá Chica of Baependi never learned to read, yet she gave wise counsel to everyone at her door and built a chapel for Our Lady.
A poor boy walked barefoot to school in Italy. One day, he became the pope who opened the doors of Holy Communion to children.
In a poor village in Italy, a boy was born who talked with his guardian angel the way you talk with a friend. This is the first part of the life of Padre Pio, the friar who received the wounds of Christ.
Bernadette was a poor, sickly girl from Lourdes, in France. One day, near a grotto, she saw a most beautiful Lady dressed in white. So began a story of eighteen meetings, a spring that welled up from the earth, and a mysterious name.
Maria Rita was a girl from Salvador, Brazil, who could not bear to see anyone suffer. She became Sister Dulce, the nun who sheltered seventy sick people in a chicken coop and came to be known as the Good Angel of Bahia.

Saint Dulce of the Poor - Part 2: From the Chicken Coop to Santo Antonio Hospital
From the old chicken coop grew a hospital that cares for thousands of people. Sister Dulce met the Pope, received awards from around the world, and stayed simple to the end. This is the story of the nun from Bahia who became Saint Dulce of the Poor.
Francis grew up rich in Assisi and dreamed of becoming a knight. But an encounter on the road changed his life forever, and the young man of the parties became the little poor man the whole world came to love.

Saint Francis of Assisi - Part 3: The Stigmata and the Canticle of the Creatures
In the last years of his life, sick and nearly blind, Francis received on Mount La Verna the marks of Jesus and composed the most beautiful song of praise to creation. The peaceful farewell of the little poor man of Assisi.
In the year 1917, in a poor village in Portugal, three shepherd children saw a Lady dressed in white, brighter than the sun. She carried a request for the whole world. This is how the apparitions of Fatima began.
By the side of a spring, a poor woman asks two very different sisters for a drink of water. The way each one answers will shape, word by word, the fortune of them both.
A poor father, with his thirteenth child in his arms, sets out on the highway to find the boy a godfather. The godfather he chooses will make his son a famous physician — but every gift comes with a warning.
A princess who mocks every suitor finds herself married to a poor fiddler, and far from the palace she slowly discovers that a good heart is worth more than appearances.
A poor couple wish for a child, and their wish comes true in the most unexpected way: a boy no bigger than a thumb, clever and brave, who sets out into the wide world on surprising adventures.












