Upon The Feasts of Sts. Gianna Beretta Molla, Louis De Montfort, And Peter Chanel

If there were such a geometric possiblity as a three-sided die, Catholics could roll it today to determine which of three significant feasts to observe today. Two French priests and an Italian woman get their day in the liturgical sun. Here are the vitals:



St. Gianna Beretta Molla
-1922 to 1962
-Italian saint
-Physician and surgeon
-While pregnant with her fourth child, doctors discovered an ovarian cyst and recommended Gianna have an abortion. She refused, and died a week after from complications.
-Patron saint against abortion



St. Louis Marie de Monfort
-1673 to 1716
-French saint
-Priest and founder of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Wisdom
-Fought Jansenism (which my wife has broadly referred to as "Catholic Calvinism")
-Among those books of his still in print:The Secret of the Rosary and True Devotion to Mary



St Peter Chanel
-1803-1841
-French saint
-Priest and missionary to New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) in the South Pacific shortly after it outlawed cannibalism
-When a native king became jealous of Peter's influence, he had him beaten with clubs and dismembered

Holy men and women, Ora pro nobis!