St. Gerard Majella was the youngest of five children. After his father died when he was twelve, his mother sent him to work with his uncle who was a tailor. 

He split the money he earned between his mother and the poor leaving little for himself, and offering his fasting up while making trips to a nearby Church. 

Gerard tried joining the Capuchins but, his selflessness had left him so weak they wouldn’t take him. 

Eventually, he was accepted by the congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, where he became a professed lay brother. 

Gerard remained dedicated to the poor and continued his life of fasting but soon it became clear, that he had many great Spiritual Gifts. He could read souls, occasionally he would levitate, even bi-location. 

Shortly before he died he dropped a handkerchief which was retrieved and returned by a young lady. Gerard told her to keep it in case she needed it one day. 

Years after his death, when she was pregnant and about to lose her baby, she laid the handkerchief over her womb, and the baby was saved. 

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in 1647 and struggled with her health as a child. 

When she was in her mid-twenties and considering marriage she chose, instead, to join the Order of The Visitation Nuns. 

Three years later, in 1674, Margaret Mary began to receive revelations, from Jesus, who wanted her to make known to mankind, His love for them 

For the next 13 months, Jesus appeared to Mary Margaret, asking that the symbol of His Love be, His Sacred Heart. 

To honor Jesus, she received Holy Communion as often as possible, especially on First Fridays, and spent an hour every Thursday night in Adoration in honor of The Agony of Jesus and Gethsemane. 

She paid dearly for these revelations, with her contemporaries doubting and chastising her. 

Only when St. Claude De la Colombiere became her confessor was any credence given to her journey with Jesus. 

She died at the age of just 43 with her last words being: 

“I need nothing but God, and to lose myself in the 

Heart of Jesus. 

St. Gerard Majella and St. Margaret Mary, please pray for us.