TODAY'S SAINT (PACIFIC OF SANSEVERINO)
PACIFIC OF SAN SEVERINO
Priest
Born in 1653, St. Pacific was orphaned when he was quite young and was raised by an uncle. At the age of seventeen he entered the Franciscan Order and after his ordination he was asigned to minister to the Apennine mountain villages of Italy. Affter a successful apostolate of some seven years, he was stricken with an incapacitating illness and resigned himself to thirty years as a semi-invalid. He transformed these years into an intense apostolate of prayer and became famous for his patiennce, austerity, and gift of prophecy.
PRAYER
God, the giver of ass gifts, You adorned St. Pacific with
the virtue of unusuall patience and with the love of sol-
itude. Through his intercession, may we walk in his
footsteps and obtain a like reward. Amen
Feast: September 24
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