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    Saint Gemma Galgani
    Saint Gemma Galgani
    Saint Gemma Galgani
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    Saint Gemma Galgani

    By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

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    Saint Gemma Galgani bore the wounds of the Stigmata in Lucca Italy. Bob and Penny Lord traveled to Lucca and gathered the information to create this ebook on the life of Saint Gemma Galgani.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJourneys of Faith
    Release dateSep 11, 2010
    ISBN9781452321349
    Saint Gemma Galgani
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    Bob Lord

    Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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      Saint Gemma Galgani - Bob Lord

      Saint Gemma Galgani

      Bob and Penny Lord

      Published by Bob and Penny Lord at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Bob and Penny Lord

      Discover other titles by Bob and Penny Lord at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bobandpennylord

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashword.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Saint Gemma Galgani

      Mystic who bore the precious Wounds of Our Savior

      The curtain is falling on the 19th Century. The Heresy of Modernism would soon show its venomous fangs and the Church, through her holy Pope Saint Pius X, would fight it, dispelling it for all time, or so he hoped. We, know now at the tail end of the 20th Century that this did not come to pass. We are, once again, suffering the same Heresy combined with centuries of other condemned heresies, all in one deadly poisonous attack disguised under the name of enlightenment.

      The Lord was wounded by His sons, those He had commissioned to be guardians of the Faith. He needed a victim-soul. His priests and bishops, who were supposed to be victim-priests with Him, had once again betrayed Him, and He needed a soul who would be faithful and obedient until death, one who would share His Wounds and Passion. And so, a Gemma was born!

      The Lord sends down a Gem from Heaven to bless the world

      In Camigliano, a small village not too far from the historic city of Lucca, the Lord blessed Aurelia Landi2 and Enrico Galgani on March 12, 1878, with a tiny, precious little baby girl (as the priest who baptized her, exclaimed upon seeing her), una Gemma del Paradiso!

      Gemma’s mother had hesitated naming her new-born child Gemma, as it was not a Saint’s name, but did so, taking the priest’s words as prophecy that the Lord had blessed them with a gem from Heaven.

      Once again, we find Holy Clusters3 as we discover, Gemma’s father descended from the same family as a Saint, St. John Leonardi. Gemma would bless the same city, Lucca, that another Saint, St. Zita4 blessed in the 13th Century. As her father had relocated his family to Lucca, soon after Gemma was born, she spent most of her twenty five years of life there, and now after death, rests there for the faithful to come and venerate till today.

      Although she was one of seven children, she and her brother Gino were their father’s favorites. He liked to take Gemma and

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