portraitsofsaints: Happy Feast DaySaint Gerard Majella1726-1755Feast day: October 16Patronage: Child
portraitsofsaints: Happy Feast DaySaint Gerard Majella1726-1755Feast day: October 16Patronage: Children (and unborn children in particular); childbirth; mothers (and expectant mothers in particular); motherhood; falsely accused people; good confessions; lay brothers; and Muro Lucano, ItalySt. Gerard Majella was a professed lay brother of the Redemptorists; he served as tailor and infirmarian and became known for his extraordinary supernatural gifts of bilocation, prophecy, ecstasies, and visions. Though not a priest, his spiritual direction and advice were sought by many among the clergy and communities of nuns. St. Gerard is often invoked as the patron of expectant mothers as a result of a miracle effected through his prayers for a woman in labor. {website} -- source link