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SUMMARY:Saint Jerome Emiliani
DESCRIPTION:Saint Jerome Emiliani\nSaint of the Day for February 9\n(1486 – February 8\, 1537)\nClick to hear audio clip ►\nSaint Jerome Emiliani’s Story\nA careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice\, Jerome was captured in a skirmish at an outpost town and chained in a dungeon. In prison Jerome had a lot of time to think\, and he gradually learned how to pray. When he escaped\, he returned to Venice where he took charge of the education of his nephews—and began his own studies for the priesthood. \nIn the years after his ordination\, events again called Jerome to a decision and a new lifestyle. Plague and famine swept northern Italy. Jerome began caring for the sick and feeding the hungry at his own expense. While serving the sick and the poor\, he soon resolved to devote himself and his property solely to others\, particularly to abandoned children. He founded three orphanages\, a shelter for penitent prostitutes and a hospital. \nAround 1532\, Jerome and two other priests established a congregation\, the Clerks Regular of Somasca\, dedicated to the care of orphans and the education of youth. Jerome died in 1537 from a disease he caught while tending the sick. He was canonized in 1767. In 1928\, Pius Xl named him the patron of orphans and abandoned children. \n\nReflection\nVery often in our lives it seems to take some kind of “imprisonment” to free us from the shackles of our self-centeredness. When we’re “caught” in some situation we don’t want to be in\, we finally come to know the liberating power of Another. Only then can we become another for “the imprisoned” and “the orphaned” all around us. \n\nThe Liturgical Feast of Saint Jerome Emiliani is February 8.\n\nSaint Jerome Emiliani is the Patron Saint of :\nOrphans\nAbandoned Children
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