ik wist...
dat ik hem al kende !hij verscheen immers regelmatig
aan die andere heilige: Gemma Galgani !
saint Gemma Galgani suffered from several illnesses. She joyfully offered these sufferings to God, with great patience. On one occasion, saint Gemma was miraculously cured from spinal tuberculosis, or spinal meningitis.
She had become gravely ill, and nothing could be done for her. From one of her schoolteachers, she was told to pray a nine-day novena, to saint Margaret Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for the grace of being cured, or to enter heaven immediately. But saint Gemma kept forgetting to finish it.
When she tried for a third time to start the novena, saint Gabriel Possenti - a saint of the Passionist Order, who appeared to her often and assisted her in trials - appeared by her bed, and helped her to pray the novena. He appeared every night, and prayed it with her until it was completed.
At its conclusion, saint Gemma was completely cured."
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