QUIET ROAM (QR) CHURCH TOUR
St. Martin dePorres, Poughkeepsie NY
Bl. Laura Vicuna
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Laura Vicuna was born in Santiago, Chile on April 5, 1891. She went to live in Argentina with her mother and sister and eventually entered the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians school where she began to take a deep interest in the Catholic faith.
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Enduring abuse at the hands of those who wanted her to forget about becoming a nun, Laura eventually succumbed to illness and died at the age of 13.
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She is the patron of abuse victims and those who have lost their parents.
Bl. Miguel Pro, S.J.
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Blessed Miguel Pro was born on January 13, 1891. He was a Mexican Jesuit Catholic priest who served at a time when there was no religious freedom for Catholics in Mexico.
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Pro was executed in 1927, falsely accused of a bombing and the attempted assessination of the former Mexican president.
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His deep spirituality and joyfulness are evident in his fragment of a poem he wrote the year before his death:
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O Lord! take all I have, but give me souls, I pray;
Take health and earthly goods, and even my friend's esteem;
But let zeal's flames devouring, higher mount each day,
That in my heart from Thine a dim reflection gleam.
Let sorrow, loneliness, and exile encompass me;
Let friends be absent when my heart is crushed wtih pain.
My mother's kisses take -- earth's sweetest ecstasy --
But grant, dear Lord, I pray, that sinful souls I gain.
