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Leopold Mandić – feast day is May 12 Simple forgiveness Share by Melanie Rigney If you had encountered this Capuchin friar, you might have given him a second glance because of his stature and then moved on. Other than being just 4 feet, 6 inches tall, there wasn’t much that was noteworthy about Leopold. He had all kinds of health issues, including stuttering and throat problems that caused him to speak very loudly. Eventually he would die of esophageal cancer. However, his ailments couldn’t keep him from being really, really good at one thing. But more about that in a bit. The saint born Bogdan Mandić grew up in a large family in a town in what is now Montenegro. Many of the people he knew were members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, and he felt a strong desire to play a role in reconciling the centuries-long schism between it and the Catholic Church. The way to do that, he believed, was to become a Capuchin friar. At 16, he entered a seminary 500 mile ....
Modern Saint: Maria de las Maravillas de Jesus Something true and wondrous Share by Melanie Rigney It was a long name for an infant: Maria de las Maravillas Pidal Chico de Guzman. But her mother had a special devotion to Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders, or Marvels) … and there was, of course, that family pedigree. When the child they nicknamed Mavi was born, her father was serving as the Spanish ambassador to the Holy See. Reading the works of St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross surely fueled Mavi’s interest in becoming a Carmelite. All those saints stories her beloved grandmother read to her had an impact, as well. But as Mavi’s certainty about her vocation solidified, her top priority was helping to care for her ailing father. He died a few weeks after Mavi’s 22nd birthday, and her grandmother died soon thereafter. The young woman’s spiritual director advised her to wait to enter religious life until her mother embr ....