Saints of the Days 4
There should be a bill requiring parents to names their children for the feastdays of their birthdays. That way, you don't need to ask their birthdays. Like April 17 is the Feast Day of St. Bernadette. She was known as Bernadette Soubrious, an asthmatic adolescent gathering firewoods when One Day in 1858, The Virgin Mary appeared to her. Our Lady came back 17 times with weird request for Ms. Soubrious includign eating grass to atone for the sins of mankind (misinterpreted by the Rastafarians) and tellign her where to get water. Because of the latter request, 27,000 gallons of miraculous water from Lourdes are taken from that spring every week. Sadly, the replica of the Lady of Lourdes here in Baguio can not replicate the miraculour water simply because there is no water in Mirador Hills here. They are making money only on candles.
April 18 is the feast day of St. Aya whose name is invoked against lawsuits. "Before her demise this wealthy Belgian widow bequethed her wealth and property to a convent at Mons. When their heirs contested the will, Aya testified against them, "in a hollow voice," from the tomb. Case dismissed."
April 19 is the Feast of St. Expeditus, the patron saint of UPS, JRS and other express mail carriers. There was once a shipment form Rome to a Parisian convent, supposedly carrying the skeleton of an authentic saint. It was labeled "spedito" whihc meant "special delivery" in Italian but the Parisian nuns thought it came from St. Expedito.
April 20 is for Saint Uriel, an angle positively identified by Pope Gregory the Great as the Angel who stands guard at the gates of Eden with a fiery sword.
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