Posted on 09/09/2014 11:20:36 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
The older a person gets, the more they can usually appreciate the incredible potential that exists within every young child.
What will they learn? What will they discover? Will they have a family of their own? What will be their greatest highs? What will be their darkest lows?
Maybe its because most of us realize that we havent used our own potential to its fullest extent.
The saints are far from perfect, but they are individuals whom the Church holds up as examples of people who truly followed after Christ, lived in Gods grace, and demonstrated heroic virtue. But they all started out as young children like everyone else: full of potential that could have been used for great good or not. Thats what I think of when I look at this windows into the past. Theres so much potential there and, by Gods grace, it was used for great good. May that be the case in all of our lives.
Each picture from the saints childhood is followed by a picture of them as an adult, which in most cases is the image with which most people are familiar.
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That’s an interesting site, thanks. :)
They are a very attractive group. Way above average for the times in which they lived.
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Delores Hart did in real life, become a nun.
*Trivia: First girl to kiss Elvis in a movie.
(I don't think the two facts are related...but I could be wrong)
Having been a film actress, including kissing Elvis and George Hamilton, will not prevent Mother Dolores’s being considered for canonization, after she has died.
Here’s some of Saint JP2 that are interesting.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/242772236137878103/
http://micahgirl.blogspot.com/2005/04/emerging-priest-karol-wojtyla_08.html
The photo of the three children of Fatima is one of my all-time favorite photos.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux at 8! So cute! I have never seen these pictures before. Thanks.
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