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SUMMARY:Saint Alphonsus Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Image: Detail | Vision of Alphonsus Rodriguez | Francisco de Zurbarán\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nSaint Alphonsus Rodriguez\nSaint of the Day for October 30\n(1533 – October 30\, 1617)\nClick to hear audio clip ► \nSaint Alphonsus Rodriguez’ Story\nTragedy and challenge beset today’s saint early in life\, but Alphonsus Rodriguez found happiness and contentment through simple service and prayer. \nBorn in Spain in 1533\, Alphonsus inherited the family textile business at 23. Within the space of three years\, his wife\, daughter\, and mother died; meanwhile\, business was poor. Alphonsus stepped back and reassessed his life. He sold the business and\, with his young son\, moved into his sister’s home. There he learned the discipline of prayer and meditation. \nYears later\, at the death of his son\, Alphonsus\, almost 40 by then\, sought to join the Jesuits. He was not helped by his poor education. He applied twice before being admitted. For 45 years he served as doorkeeper at the Jesuits’ college in Majorca. When not at his post\, he was almost always at prayer\, though he often encountered difficulties and temptations. \nHis holiness and prayerfulness attracted many to him\, including Saint Peter Claver\, then a Jesuit seminarian. Alphonsus’ life as doorkeeper may have been humdrum\, but he caught the attention of poet and fellow-Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins\, who made him the subject of one of his poems. \nAlphonsus died in 1617. He is the patron saint of Majorca. \n\nReflection\nWe like to think that God rewards the good\, even in this life. But Alphonsus knew business losses\, painful bereavement\, and periods when God seemed very distant. None of his suffering made him withdraw into a shell of self-pity or bitterness. Rather\, he reached out to others who lived with pain\, including enslaved blacks. Among the many notables at his funeral were the sick and poor people whose lives he had touched. May they find such a friend in us! \n\nSaint Alphonsus Rodriguez is the Patron Saint of:\nMajorca.
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