Today is the optional memorial of St. Rose of Lima, virgin. She was the first saint born in the Americas and showed great devotion to St. Catherine of Siena. Like St. Catherine, she bore the pain of the stigmata. St. Rose died in 1617.
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("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)