Hey friends, this is Nancy with a special invitation that you and your family, check out the

clubhouse. The clubhouse is a community for Catholic kids. We offer incredible live events

each month where we craft, we pray, we learn about virtues with Sir Roland, and we talk to a real

life religious order.

It's an incredible experience.

I just love being on these calls, meeting you, and growing in the faith with you.

So if you like to check it out, just check the notes for this podcast episode.

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Hello, sprouts. Today is Monday, October 21st, 2024.

Today is also the feast of St. Hilarion, and we're in the 29th week of ordinary time.

I'm Kelly Mantone, the founder of accepting the gift, a ministry which supports the parents of children with disabilities.

I'm here as a guest host on a Catholic Sprouts podcast to talk to you about some of my favorite saints, all of whom just happen to have disabilities. Today, I want to

tell you the story of Saint Germain Cuisine. Germain lived in France in the late 1500s. She was born with what today we would call a limb difference.

Her right hand was misshapen and paralyzed. Her mother had died while Germain was still an infant,

and her father remarried a woman who didn't like Germain because of her disability and her ill

health. Her stepmother was cruel towards her,

and Germain's father did not stop the abuse. Germain was forced to sleep in the family's barn,

and instead of going to school, she was required to watch her family's sheep. But despite her poor

health, her hunger and her thirst, because her stepmother

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