LIFES OF THE SAINTS

Encetem aquí una nova secció que servirà per a posar a prova els nostres coneixements d’anglès en un nivell senzill. Els textos que publicarem estan extrets del llibre “Lifes of the saints”, editat als Estats Units durant la primera meitat del segle XX i que pel que sembla anava dirigit prioritàriament a la comunitat afroamericana.

Esperem que en gaudiu tant com un servidor quan va fer aquesta petita troballa...!

ST. ROSALIA, Virgin

September 4

ST. ROSALIA, daughter of Simibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, was a descendant of the great Charlemagne. She was born at Palermo in Sicily. In her youth, her heart turned from earthly vanities to God. She left her home and took up her abode in a cave, on de walls of which she wrote this words: “ I Rosalia, daughter of Simibald, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ.” She remained there entirely hidden from the world.

She practiced great mortifications and lived in constant communion with God. Afterward she transferred her abode to Mount Pellegrino, about three miles from Palermo, in order to triumph entirely over the instincts of flesh and blood, in sight of her paternal home. She is said to have appeared after death and to have revealed that she spent several years in a little excavation near to grotto. She died alone, in 1160, ending her strange and wonderful life unknown to the world. Her body was discovered several centuries later, in 1625, during the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII.

PRAYER: Hear us, oh God, our Savior, so that we who rejoice in the feast of blessed Rosalia, Your Virgin, may be taught by the spirit of pious devotion. Amen.