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Our Lady of Lourdes: The Spring That Never Runs Dry

Our Lady of Lourdes: The Spring That Never Runs Dry

6 min de leitura

In the south of France there is a cave with a spring that never stops running. Every February 11, the whole world remembers it.

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Friar Galvão: Brazil's First Saint

Friar Galvão: Brazil's First Saint

9 min de leitura

In Guaratinguetá a boy named Antônio was born. He became a friar, built a monastery, and helped the sick with tiny pills made of prayer.

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Saint Pauline: The First Saint of Brazil

Saint Pauline: The First Saint of Brazil

9 min de leitura

The story of Amabile, the girl who crossed the ocean, cared for the sick in a tiny wooden house, and became the first saint of Brazil.

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Saint Bernadette - Part 1: The Apparitions of Lourdes

Saint Bernadette - Part 1: The Apparitions of Lourdes

11 min de leitura

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.

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Saint Catherine of Siena - Part 1: The Mystic Who Changed the Church

Saint Catherine of Siena - Part 1: The Mystic Who Changed the Church

14 min de leitura

In Siena, in Italy, a six-year-old girl saw Jesus in the sky and was never the same again. This is the first part of the life of Saint Catherine, the young woman who served the sick and became a Doctor of the Church.

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Saint Dulce of the Poor - Part 1: The Good Angel of Bahia

Saint Dulce of the Poor - Part 1: The Good Angel of Bahia

12 min de leitura

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.

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Saint Francis of Assisi - Part 3: The Stigmata and the Canticle of the Creatures

Saint Francis of Assisi - Part 3: The Stigmata and the Canticle of the Creatures

12 min de leitura

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.

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Little Red-Cap

Little Red-Cap

11 min de leitura

With a piece of cake and a bottle of wine in her apron, a little girl in a red velvet cap sets off through the forest to visit her sick grandmother. On the way she meets a smooth-talking wolf, and the woods hold more surprises than she knows.

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